Mastodawn

There's a bot on Bluesky that tells you how many actual followers you have - e.g. accounts that aren't banned or deleted. I have 1.7k followers on Bluesky. I just checked with the bot and the number of actual followers I have is just under *400*.

Most likely? Most of those ghost accounts are banned Palestinian accounts. Ironically, the Palestinians Bluesky has declared war on are the only thing keeping people from realizing just how dead the platform is.

#socialmedia #bluesky

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FKFTSH 1d ago

I checked manually (counted about half of my followers list) and the bot appears to be accurate, in case that was in doubt.

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michimichael 23h ago

@fkftsh It seemed very strange to me that there are communicators and personalities in Bluesky, with so many followers, but so little interaction.

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FKFTSH 22h ago

@SecondChanceLemon Yeah, another problem that causes that is that many of the big accounts engage in 'follow for follow' trains, so even the real followers they have will often be accounts that are also following 5-20k other people, and when they follow that many people the chance of them seeing anything you post is close to zero.