Today, the US government has created accounts for multiple departments in a coordinated effort to manipulate the discourse on Bsky. Most of the engagement these accounts get is from freshly created accounts in the last 24 hours and some MAGA trolls.
Here are lists of the departments. You can use these to easily block or mute all of them. Starve them of the attention that they are seeking
- https://bsky.app/profile/justinmorgan.io/lists/3m3gevwls2f2f
- https://bsky.app/profile/jake18101.bsky.social/lists/3m3ghr737ok2o
And a list I created with all the people liking their shit, mostly fresh bots and trolls (the script is still WIP if anyone is interested):
How about getting off another corporate owned platform that is already enshittifying.
Mastodon is going to still be just as nice as it is now if not better once Bsky craps out entirely like Reddit
Are there actually people on Mastodon besides Linux evangelists?
No.
Like a year ago i made some polls on masto that came out pretty 50/50 but with MS doing MS stuff the total amount of linux users is rising.
But it could be that from the recent BSky drama and other factors more WIN people are joining which could even it out again
i use arch-based btw :p
I use both. Bsky has way more people and the feed is better.
I love the fediverse (it's why I'm here, right?), but people need to realise that good social networks need people to interact and, you know, be social.
The most private, publicly owned and anti-corporate network is still going to be useless if hardly anyone uses it. Bluesky isn't perfect but it's good enough for now and so far most folks on there have no time or patience for the right, with plenty of tools to easily identify and block them. That'll do for me.
I started to try out wafrn which can do booth andi liked it more than masto.
Sadly choosing the gender on signup does absolutely nothing (as they are hilarious on their own)