“i can’t leave twitter, i need it, it’s where my audience is”

December 09, 2025 - 11:52 UTC

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I wish this place had live Spaces though.
But I fully understand the bot element of X. It seems like the more progressive you are on that site, the more bots attack you. No doubt this is intentional.
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Stay on Bluesky and grow your audience here. It’s surprisingly nicer here
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by audience, you mean possibly mostly bots?
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i wish i could get the rest of my friends off of twitter and onto bsky
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I wonder how many reasons you need to be given to leave twitter before you admit that you're just addicted.

Addicted to them big fake ass numbers and hollow engagement.
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I do miss some accounts that didn't jump over to here but I also don't miss the deranged bots that were clogging up every thread.
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I'm honestly surprised Bluesky hasn't courted Advertisers over to here as I'm sure they would like to have their ads not attached to right winger posts and it would actually be the death nail to Twitter.
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your mistake here is thinking that the advertisers aren't themselves right wingers
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Your audience moves with you if you're actually worth the effort, so that says a lot
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Came here when most of the accounts I actually liked stopped posting there as frequently or just stopped entirely. My feed became basically only porn accounts because that's the only thing besides obvious rage bait and nazi bot accounts that's posted anymore
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Surprised me how many mutuals I had on Twitter also came to Bluesky the time I did
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Or audiences are just lazy
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this was how i realized i wasn't worth the effort
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The people whose opinions genuinely matter to me I both followed and was followed by when we all made the jump here.
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Fans move. Audiences are where they are.
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bsky.app/profile/wildheart-baby.bsky.social/post/3m7nw3xr6lk2a
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To be fair bluesky is a lot more faff
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@maxdood.bsky.social Calling you out.
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70% bots, yeah, great audience
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I legit have a larger following here than Twitter and the only other difference is that I'm less insufferably online.

Less is the operative word here
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Twitter is a platform owned by the current US Goverment. Everything you say, everything you express, through dms or whatever is being feed directly to the US Goverment.
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@gambitlucis.bsky.social
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My twitter account is literally dead LMAO
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I've always said if you're happy to have an audience of pornbots, racists, bigots and trolls who live on there, 24/7 gooning to AI slop, you deserve to stay on Twitter!
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Man FUCK twitter!!!!
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I keep an account there to keep my branding name occupied.
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“Sports twitter never migrated over” is something I’ve been told dead straight
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"I should also start a substack."
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@shamimmalekmian.bsky.social guess who hahaha
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Hahaha the wee lad
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i have almost nothing on both x and here but tbh my twitter is hacked (dunno why they didn't bother changing the password or anything but ill let em have it)
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well it's a good thing i barely had any audience then ehehehehehe
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Way more YouTubers and journalists are still there and I don't get it, are they just oblivious?
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Honestly it's a huge red flag at this point depending on the person, a few people I formerly followed on twitter decided to take the opportunity of people deleting their accs to start following bigoted, zoophilia, or loli/shota accounts.
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It's a real "No one's gonna know" "They're gonna know" "How would they know" situation cause I've gone to see if artists I followed finally moved over here and I couldn't find their @ on here and I check their followed accs just to be sure and then if I see somethin' I'm like
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The funny part abt people getting mad @ this post is it's directed at people who have refused to even make an attempt to move for 2 years & go 'But BSky ALSO bad'. Meanwhile 2 weeks after OPs post Twitter got the genAi artist's IP nightmare & mass produced CSAM. When is it enough lmfao.
#negative
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Failure to move has been a self fulfilling prophecy. People don't want to move because audience. audience never moves because people with audience refuse to move. everyone stays and complains that no one is moving. What do you expect lmfao. No one likes what happened to Twt but seriously
#negative
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This but also Tik Tok.
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Twitter truly is the moldy, leftover party sub of websites. 🤮
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I can live without the small percentage of h-artists I know that never migrated, beats seeing slurs every 5 minutes
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“Two thousand more bot followers and I can fit it in the fridge!”
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If the audience cares, it will migrate along.
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Bsky is way more censored and strict with NSFW art than X/Twitter, therefore it's not an alternative if you don't conform to normies.
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this audience feeds me. i'd love to leave but i can't. unless i want to be homeless and wear an imaginary medal for parting ways with a toxic platform nobody cares about when walking by me sitting under a bridge.
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This is too accurate for some people.
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Half of our moots I swear to God
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I mean I get the same traction there as I do here. Actually reach here’s worse at times
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I still don't know why some of my Twitter mutuals still haven't made the jump to Bluesky.

From others, I keep hearing the same excuse: it's where my customer base is, it's about SURVIVAL.
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because people who stay just because of their audience are different from people who are financially dependent on the site's algorithm. this is not talking about people who make commissions to pay their bills, this is about influencers not wanting to admit they bought followers
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I knew ever since I locked it i could never go back posting there. Not that I had a big audience there anyways 🤷‍♀️
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Film Twitter and also animation twitter were an absolute nightmare I dealt with. They don’t love cinema at all.
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I have actually been wondering, though, has anyone become Bluesky famous without importing their following from another platform?
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early adopters here are still Bluesky Famous without having been Twitter famous there is a lot of lore around this.
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What about artist that's income only comes from Twitter huh? What about the safety of sending images in dms? While I am in the boat of 'if your using twitter, refer to this image', there are some excuses that are really legit :\
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Hello? People staying on X ESPECIALLY if they are LGBTQ+ but completely ignore the xenophobe that runs the company and the many other assholes that are funding this guy to keep your eyes peeled on xenophobic content.

But sure. Stay there. Lol say what you want. Enjoy your social jaundice
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Sadly i have more bots than interactions on there..
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The best part about this is that it's "Influencers" who say it. You know, the people who are supposed to "influence" others to do things... Ahem.
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lol for me “it’s where I made so many friends and met my wife” luckily I left over a year ago
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This was how I felt until the nazi salute. Idk if no one ever sees my art again, it's better than enriching a nazi
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Frankly, I only use twitter for game/cartoon news or when I want to be informed about something.

Bluesky is my main home for now. I don't think this app is boring, I get social interactions and audiences way more than usual.
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"It's where my audience is" That's what I thought at first, it turns out most of them moved here already before I did.
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When I finally convinced myself, I told all of my close followers about it. Gave myself a week to make sure I have everyone I wanted- then transferred myself totally to bsky. It was painless to delete my xitter.
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the moment I start getting more commissions on here than there I'll make the switch
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okay, become uncontactable on twitter while remaining contactable on bluesky and 100% of people attempting to commission you on twitter will move.
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Congrats on the hit skeet Jasper
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i've cracked the algorithm finally. dunking on twitter + simpsons.
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I pop in once a month
check pages of the japanese artists that haven't left
and then close it
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Same, but with furry community friends who for some reason haven't made the jump to Bluesky
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I'm sad that the japanese users just posting clips of their cute pets never left twitter for bluesky. That's the stuff i miss.

Cause for some reason the japanese are the only ones just posting the clips as-is. Everyone else ads shitty royalty free music or "Silly & whacky" sound effects...
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I deleted everything aside from the Daily account I run (it's a matter of pride in this case)
My audience is here, surely not on the nazi den
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@doaldo.bsky.social
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Wish I could have everyone here ngl...
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Woah... Absolutely everyone??? 🐰🤔
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Their audience is full of Nazi's and magats then, I guess.
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And that was the reason I destroyed my twitter.
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I mean the Japanese side is still mostly on Twitter. From animators, directors, game devs and artists. Most of them barely use bluesky.
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And bots. The audience # they are leaning on is likely heavily boosted by bots.
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"Noooo I can't live without the support of @ben0193462 and @bcake7731650"
*eerie piano sting, turns and faces the camera*
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I just wish I had enough reach to convince people to come here from the other site.
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The only time I've ever interacted with Twitter after deleting the app over a year ago was when people sent me Twitter links, now I've deactivated my account so I can't even do that, fuck that hellsite.
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I don't get enough interaction on any website to justify staying on it if it's full of Nazis, tbh.
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this makes me feel better about being permabanned from there
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"Marge, I want to be alone with the Twitter app."
"Are you gonna post on there?"
"..........Yes."
*Marge grabs Homer's phone and finally deletes Twitter*
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If they just announce they are leaving then their followers will follow
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A friend nailed it- “Twitter is a dumpster fire at an incel convention”.
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Since I left Twitter, I'm happier. I left it around 2021, but I had a relapse during the 2024 US Elections for the conservatives a-holes and bigots. After it was clear that the orange cheeto won, I installed an add-on to block websites just to block Twitter.
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I'm friends with an artist who has 20k followers on twitter, I have 1k here on bsky. We are getting the same number of comments. Brother your audience is bots
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I have slightly less followers here than Twitter but the engagement is WAYYYYY better over here.
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The audience of bots and bigots (who don't know what bots are lol)
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If people really feel that way they can post to both Bluesky and Twitter. There's even software that can automate posting on both or people can copy and paste their posts on Bluesky and tweet it too. Crossposting is better than not having a Bluesky account at all.
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My audience isn’t even that big over there and I still try coming back again and again like a beaten puppy 😭😭😭😭
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"Marge, can you leave me alone with twitter?"
"Are you gonna flame?"

"...yeah"
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The unfortunate reality is that people need to pay rent.
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“there’s no engagement culture here”

have you tried engaging with other people?
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Likely they are too used to bot engagement to know the difference.
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Unfortunately i don’t have a luxury of abandoning a platform because i need art commissions and sales of my artworks.
I’m a refugee who had my exhibitions raided by the police in a fascist regime i protested.
But more privileged people sure, can mock it.
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someone compared staying on twitter to staying in a shitty day job to pay the bills and this is a perfect example
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My audience are the clouds

youtu.be/tJ-LivK4-78?si=OVUj_R9LNL5Zt3Gr
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“Who is your audience dawg”
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Their real audience will follow them on bsky
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"Homer, are you really going to respond to that ragebait?"

"...yes."
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I just moved twitter app to the last page on my phone. To much effort to continually switch between apps on the first page that I actually use, then I just stopped and deleted Twitter
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Sounds like some of my mutuals that are still on there.
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It’s where my audience WAS. And I was already moving away from it but when I saw that salute, I downloaded my archive and completely deleted it.
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Never had it never will!!!
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This is my avatar there, would love if more people left it but alas.
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everyone replying along the lines of "i wish i could but/i only go back every [x] or so", please refer to the image
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That picture is beyond accurate. take it from someone who had a hard time switching from there to here not because of people (cuz I didn’t have anyone I knew there) but because the influence there is toxic and addicting. It’s rage, doomerism, no actual community, no friends, no socializing.
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"this site is never replacing twitter" please refer to the image "no but i really do need it for my audience" please refer to the image
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damn the people on this site are pretentious.
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Make sure you don't tell the truth on there or you'll get banned. And they'll still charge you and take your money while locking access to the service. No wonder Elon Musk is rich. It happened to me @whyfakenews so be warned @X is a joke
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"But Bluesky is boring." So you'd rather eat a rotten sandwich, instead of something healthier.
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Can't relate, I honestly can't live without this app 😭
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Bluesky is what you make of it
If it seems boring, look at the mirror
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Yeah considering the number of times I got told I deserve to die on Twitter, I'll take this "boring" over that.
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"I like money"
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why does homer have jaundice
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=myS1eF3sWGk
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This is me btw
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my audience there is dead. 1300 accounts are dead and I only ever hear people on here now I hate that guy.
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Left it and have zero regrets
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Would it be safe to say the people develop “Stockholm syndrome” with Twitter?
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I sure do miss my old audience of the local nazi who would harass me, the dl chasers who'd hit on me in my DMs, the old irl friends I added who I never talk to, the anonymous porn accounts who'd go through and retweet all my old sfw selfies, the weird hyper-online lefties who were addicted to drama
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I miss the multiple times I was told to off myself for a throw away snarky comment, or the time a guy randomly accused me of being a Trump supporting sock puppet and tried to dox me.
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Yup. That's the saddest part. Trump ruined it. Musk ruined it. But, some still refuse to go to the blue skies. SMH
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Literally the same argument on why some friends stay on Twitter every single time.
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the audience in question
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Very accurate. Why not just post both here and over there? You know, to get the ENTIRE audience.
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I went back for a little while and then I just realized that it was way too toxic for my mental health and just stopped.
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I think for some staying on Twitter is like keeping your day job in an insecure market, even though the coworkers bully you till you can't sleep and the pay is shit. 💙
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Along with the bots and eastern europeans posting MAGA propaganda.
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Poor Homer. :(
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"I just can't leave my audience of pedophiles and nazis, this is what I'm all about... right ?"
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The audience in question
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Yeah this. Huge swaths of accounts on Twitter are just bots. The drop in audience when people switch here is basically just because those bots don't switch, which leaves them with only the "true" followers.
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I mostly keep twitter to yell at corporations when something fucks up. When youtube has an account here that I can holler at when a weird bug happens it's finished
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The audience:
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It's a ball and chain at this point. Thankfully I'm staying off it 98% of the time.
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i argue that by maintaining a presence on twitter you're helping keep your audience IN that hellscape. just tell everyone, and leave it. i hate having to go back there to check up on people that haven't migrated away yet.
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still? man that's rough
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my real ones moved cuz i did 🙏
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I felt that way for a while, but once I finally did cut the cord, it felt so much better.
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I feel the same way about substack honestly
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I’ve never seen a more accurate post in my life
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Funny enough, Bsky is my biggest audience that I'v ever had and I've only been here for like 2 years.
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On here, your followers will actually see your posts, and most of them aren't bots.
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Then you realize half of the audience not real and they’re just scam bots spreading MAGAT propaganda
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2200+ followers.. and somehow not more than 5-10 people ever saw my posts.

Posted something on BlueSky with like 10 followers and was getting dozens of likes and retweets.

Statistically that’s the day I sighed in relief and abandoned that ghost ship forever x3
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I've not been on Twitter for a long time, I'm banned there actually. But I don't condemn people who are on Twitter. Let's be honest, Bluesky exists largely for people who explicitly reject Elon Musk's politics. But there are plenty of people on Twitter who were there before Musk bought it.
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Is Bluesky an echo chamber? Kinda. I'm not saying I think any conversations here would be more productive if we welcomed Cuckslayer1488 to give his input, but if you don't have strong political opinions and were already on Twitter before Musk bought it, you'd probably still be there.
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I mostly stopped posting on Twitter cuz my reach is dead there o-o

I get much better results here on Bsky
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Wish my friends frequented here more umu
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This was me and I finally grew a brain and deleted my Twitter. What an absolute shithole
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Then give me infinite money, wiseass
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Once, I tried to reason with an otherwise very aware account who migrated here but continued to use X, on a post about them complaining about still being there, to get off of there. When they defended their reasoning and I tried to debate them - because I liked them - they blocked me!
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Twitter bots: "I am the audience, queen!"

Totally agree with you, btw. I judge anyone still staying over there for an "audience" that's mostly bots at this point 🤦‍♂️🤷‍♂️
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It really does feel like that, especially given the number of things that are linked to my Twitter. It just pisses me off.
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I had to quit it cold turkey, was just so difficult
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So which ones they worried about losing, the Bots or the Nazis?
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Literally only use it to get into company dms, because it's more reliable than going through their AI phone trees and having my email ignored.
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this but its actually true
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I usually keep my mouth shut on here but this is too stupid to not comment on. I could bring up dragoneer was a pedo/zoophile defender and that using that site knowing that makes you an evil awful person and you bitch and cry. But you’re doing the same thing, are you mentally stunted or something?
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I keep getting into arguments with some friends because they will post a Twitter link on a discord server and then me and some others here will ask if it's on Bluesky to share. Then the debate happens 🙄
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People being like, "I couldn't possibly give up Twitter!" and I'm like, "I'm on the verge of quitting Bluesky!"

Not being able to quit Twitter is some weak rookie shit. These scrubs need to get on my level. I'll quit anything! I'll quit Twitter, Bluesky, I might start smoking just to quit that!
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I had this conversation so many times. Not just for X but for Instagram too, too have their own standing and not rely too much on those. People who had their profile removed for any arbitrary reason by Meta and then "I can't leave. This is were my livelihood is. I am an influencer."
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This is also inspiring me to leave Facebook as well.
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Just to be more direct--if you're making excuses as to why you NEED to be on the CSAM website, that's the number one reason why you should delete your CSAM website account.
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I deleted twitter from my phone and my mood improved significantly.
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"it's where my audience is"
their twitter audience: 🤖🤖🤖🤖🤖🤖🤖
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What audience? Ghosts?
My audience on Twitter went from great to nobody in the span of like a week when it became X.
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It's been two years since it was rebranded as x and everyone still calls it twitter
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as it should be
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@block-618.com ahem
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90% of my posts on social networks are posted on Bluesky, 9,9% on LinkedIn. The rest on my X account.
I haven't closed it yet because I try and maintain an expertise on legal AI and it's *the main place where well informed AI debate happens*.
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I mostly listen, I almost don't post.
Nevertheless I go on X less and less. So I might close it in the end. When ? IDK TBH.
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I wish I could leave but until some mass exodus happens, I gotta keep it for work. I hate how much of my potential clients are from that hell hole.
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that's so backwards because I ain't got no kind of audience on there as I do here and I was actively trying for a while on twitter back when that was it's name.
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This, but also Substack
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