The purity spiral quickening is almost complete. There can be only one.

Are their arms getting too tired to continue the circle jerk?

Any site that allows Bardfag's antics is going to die, or in this case be strangled in its cradle.

I hope blue sky never dies it lets me know which YouTubers are crazy and not to watch look at bio is their only a blusky link then 100% their crazy

Which is a shame, because I don’t want these people back on Twitter

It's a pretty good read 😄 & we really don't want them to come back.

It won't truly die for quite awhile I bet, it will be financially kept alive by the usual suspects as a propaganda mouthpiece, even if it never turns a profit.

However, as soon as I looked around Bluesky, I sensed it wouldn’t work. It didn’t yet feel like a desolate vale of inhabited sepulchres – it was more like a bad vegan café, full of humourless puritans with mouths like cats’ bottoms, eager to congratulate themselves on how much better and nobler they were than the awful centrists back on Twitter. (Right-wing people were, of course, beyond discussion – unmentionably evil). It wasn’t very inviting for people like me. And so, even then, I had the notion: Bluesky is going to fail.

Bluecry was always going to fail.

This kind of decay is disastrous for a social medium – because it is self-fulfilling. As the site shrinks down to a hardcore of tedious, earnest people, so these people will turn viciously on each other, out of sheer boredom – lacking anyone else to spar with (ironically, Bluesky is now much nastier than Twitter). In this way the site becomes even less appealing.

Nastier than twitter? No shit.

For one thing, Bluesky currently functions as a kind of philosophical quarantine zone. It’s a safe place where the most politically infected can stew among themselves. Yes, they grow sicker and more misinformed, but that’s all the more reason to keep them there. These people are dreadful – shrill, humourless, dour. We don’t want them back. We must therefore take action to save their ghetto. But what?

Bluecry as a quarantine zone. Good idea.

I propose we do the same for Bluesky. Every so often, one of us – the sane, the informed, the occasionally funny – must venture into the eerie cemetery of Bluesky, and leave behind a little sustenance: a decent gag, a nugget of insight. Just enough to keep the infected entertained. Just enough to keep them from returning to civilisation.

Make the AIs do it. No sane person deserves to be saddled with the job of walking into enemy territory to sate their ravenous hunger.