Prompted by this fine post #766083 by @denlillaapan I decided to see what is happening over on BlueSky.
I haven't had a lot of success with my Stacker Sports Twitter account other than with the bots. I am big with the bots. So, I thought it might be a good time to reach out to a new audience considering this purported "mass migration" to BlueSky.
So, I created a Stacker Sports account followed some folks talking about Sports and Bitcoin and I was off to the races. I described my initial findings in a comment on the other post as follows: "so far my interpretation is it is mostly a support group for people who want to light themselves on fire because Trump won." I crack myself up.
I did have a nice chat with a fellow Canadian Bitcoiner who is also a nostr fan and is familiar with SN. Maybe that was fruitful. And I had a wonderful chat with a self described Grandma, who is also Canadian and a Blue Jays fan. She isn't a fan of the Blue Jays front office either so we had something to bond over.
While BlueSky seemed like a ghost town other than people who wanted to rage about Trump things were looking up.
Then I started talking to people about Bitcoin and everything went downhill. A couple folks were reasonable but everyone else was sure it was a scam and that Trump was going to destroy America with it. One guy told me it is fascist and anti-human and another guy said it is worse than Bernie Maidoff. I was trying my best not to troll these people or call them brainwashed simpletons (that took a lot of effort on my part- see the things I do for Bitcoin and SN?). I shared links from bitcoin.rocks btcmap.org stacker.news and a great article from @anita about Bitcoin and human rights. And what did I get for my troubles- Labelled as spam. Initially it was just one comment so I didn't think much of it other than commenting it was a lame way for someone to disagree. And then I realized my post and all my replies from the last few hours (33 total items) had all been labelled spam.
So, my BlueSky orange, purple and SN pilling effort is now over. You may now commence laughing at me for wasting my time.
Sats for all,
GR
Thanks for the heads-up.