Go fishing for nuts and you’ll inevitably find them.
Now I’m wondering if I should ditch my bland Bluesky avi for something that’s just the right level of provocative to get a hell of a lot more engagement. An RFJ Jr. might be the Goldilocks Zone. Hmm…
Oh by all means, go ham.
I’m the last guy who will tell you not to do an RFK Jr avatar
Not exposing yourself to contrary opinions turns you into a nut though.
Idk homie I’d be pretty happy if I never had to see reactionary bullshit online ever again
I think that is part of the end goal of whatever project we are all here in support of. There is no world where we can allow competitive worldviews that are trying to destroy socialism/communism. It’s just more civility fetish stuff. The world has always been ran by people who are part of a dominator culture of some kind. If we ever get to see our goals met, we need to fight tooth and nail to keep it that way.
Insufferable libs are insufferable.
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Edit
The chutzpah of this guy. He reposted this recently.
The 4 dark laws of online engagement:
- Negativity bias drives headline clicks
- Extreme opinions drive in-group sharing
- Out-group animosity drives engagement
- “Moral-emotional” language goes viral
I discuss our research on the dark side of virality…
https://bsky.app/profile/jayvanbavel.bsky.social/post/3kpsdl44viy2c
Yeah it’s called the “capitalist bootlicking coward” mute button
New bit idea: making a bluesky account with a donut and a US flag in the name and posting things like “As a somewhat conservative liberal, Stalin was right and he shouldn’t have stopped at Berlin”.
That account would make a lot of libs mad. And they’d get even madder when they discovered/realized it was a novelty account.
The only thing libs know about Stalin is Stalin bad and Russian.
tbh if i see a hammer+sickle on twitter, they’re almost always a grifter/someone trying to build a media brand.
I don’t know anything about him. But in the 60+ seconds I spent looking at his profile I assumed he was Trump Derangement Syndrome sufferer with a broken brain. They seem to all have the same POV - if you don’t think the worst thing in the universe is Trump - you are the enemy.
i had to get off bluesky got sick of people saying i have to vote for joe biden
I just learned two things are far more common than I thought. “Sign in” posts and like farming posts (in particular with bullshit news). On the upside - I started focusing on small accounts where people actually do stuff - play guitar, take photos etc. But politically - I assume most of the accounts with 10,000s of followers are libs. Being a lib is the norm there.
Every once in a while I check clearsky.app to see who’s blocking me. A recent account is a guy with this as a bio…
Reaganite technologist in Northern Virginia
He’s going to be very lonely - haha.
I guess the Bluesky algo has started feeding me “hammer and sickle” discourse. I’m muting the phrase at least for now.
Genuinely, it’s getting to the point where I see a hammer and sickle in someone’s username/bio and I know that very soon after presenting them with facts, they will completely shut down and isolate themselves further in their disinformation sphere.
https://bsky.app/profile/mike10010100.bsky.social/post/3kpssyig42u2i
give that man a wedgie
Is it possible not to shid and fard every time someone challenges my neoliberal worldview?
