I link to a LOT of Notes stuff, I have had no success with engagement on BlueSky, which is largely a bot wasteland and full of brunch liberals who do not like or engage with my posts there. I have over 1000 followers there but got 1 or 2 likes and no reposts. Not worth my time to be on a platform where nobody engages. Follow Conspirador Norteno on here and on BlueSky to learn more about just how much bot activity there is. Abandoning X is voluntarily placing yourself further into an echo chamber.
Mastodon is even more of a wasteland of fewer people than BlueSky with no engagement. I've tried them all. Notes is the best of the competitors but still light years behind as far as number of monthly active users.
Not to say that much of what's happening in Gaza is being shown on X and nowhere else, sadly - because it's being censored. Not a lot of Palestinians and activists posting on BlueSky and Mastodon.
I have been trying to convince people to leave X for 3 years but that's still where a lot of the people I engage with still are. Sadly, news still breaks there. Not on BlueSky.
Why do your newsletters always focus on TwitterX posts?
Stop directing traffic to Elon.
Switch to Bluesky, Substack Notes, Mastodon, really anything except X.
Thanks for the feedback.
I link to a LOT of Notes stuff, I have had no success with engagement on BlueSky, which is largely a bot wasteland and full of brunch liberals who do not like or engage with my posts there. I have over 1000 followers there but got 1 or 2 likes and no reposts. Not worth my time to be on a platform where nobody engages. Follow Conspirador Norteno on here and on BlueSky to learn more about just how much bot activity there is. Abandoning X is voluntarily placing yourself further into an echo chamber.
Mastodon is even more of a wasteland of fewer people than BlueSky with no engagement. I've tried them all. Notes is the best of the competitors but still light years behind as far as number of monthly active users.
Not to say that much of what's happening in Gaza is being shown on X and nowhere else, sadly - because it's being censored. Not a lot of Palestinians and activists posting on BlueSky and Mastodon.
I have been trying to convince people to leave X for 3 years but that's still where a lot of the people I engage with still are. Sadly, news still breaks there. Not on BlueSky.
BlueSky is a Bot Wasteland: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jPKyYzy_NA
DMs Have Arrived at Substack. Can We Finally All Leave Twitter Now? https://www.indiemediatoday.com/p/dms-have-arrived-at-substack-can?utm_source=publication-search
BlueSky profile: https://bsky.app/profile/indiemediatoday.substack.com
I did a basic search on DuckDuckGo
Most recent publicly available statistics
x: 500m+ monthly active users, one even said 611m
BlueSky: 35m monthly active users (a lot of which are proven to be bots)
Substack: 20m monthly active users
Mastodon: 1.5m monthly active users