FancyPlanks 🐀

Seeing people equate BSky and this place drives me genuinely nuts because it's like comparing a smoldering fire to a blazing inferno sat outside your front door. I'm not a fediverse bro. I won't sit here and act like it is a perfect site with zero flaws because that's how people with far too much put into something talk. BSky's management is not good and often immature. They're too heavy handed when it comes to shielding people from NSFW content at first, though you can turn all those protections off. It lacks features everyone is used to. But oh my God to act like it is as bad as this place is just delusional. For a start you should not use its default discovery tools. It has feeds like "Popular with Friends" which is a feed purely based on what the people you follow are liking. There are many user created feeds and starter packs as well making finding what you want to see on that site far easier. Second is the amount of constant ragebait and dooming over there is just so much less than over here. When I log onto this site I am bombarded with a constant stream of people being negative or seeking outrage over dumb things that do not matter. It's the biggest reason I just outright stopped using this place for ages because I literally could not handle it. Don't get me wrong people still attempt it over on BSky but the difference is you can just mute that person or key words and it generally fades away. I so rarely see that type of stuff over there vs how much of it I see here. Then there's the fact that people actually see your stuff over on BSky as long as they follow you. There is no forcing you to constantly post to keep some invisible machine happy otherwise you get banished into the never ending void and have to pretty much make a new account just at a hope of recovery. I can not post for a month, come back and still get the same reach as normal over there. A lot of this I genuinely feel comes from the fact that modern social media is designed to break peoples brains into getting addicted to this constant stream of posts targeted to get the biggest reaction out of them. If you were to drop 2019 Twitter back into peoples hands I can guarantee most would complain that the site is worse. These sites weren't meant to be a core focus of your day, they were meant to be something you scroll when you have a little downtime just to see what people are up to. That used to be the point of old Twitter! All these algorithms is also why people just cannot fathom how you are supposed to grow on a site that is not algorithm focused anymore as well. They can't process that to have reach you have to actually do the social part of the site and can't just post with a hyper algorithmic caption and hope that the algorithm randomly boosts it. That's another problem as well. I see people say "well at least here posts can take off" but the reality is you're chasing a dream at that point. A site where you get more consistent interactions is better than one where most of your posts bomb except for one that randomly goes viral. If you are an artist that relies on social media for income then you need to be posting on places where your interactions favor consistency over luck. There's no use going "well sometimes my art gets 5k likes" when most posts get a hundred if you're lucky and when it's time to announce a sale that post gets seen by 10 people. The way people defend this place you would genuinely believe they have a financial investment put into it. This place will never improve if they don't believe that you will ever leave. When you sit there going "umm no matter what this place does I am not moving somewhere else" all you're doing is signalling that they can make the site as awful as they want because they know you're stuck here. At the bare minimum you need to be making your anger known to them. If you spend all your time going "well this sucks but it's still better than the alternative!" that also just tells them they can make as awful an update as they want because you are still basically advertising that this is the best place for people. It is so tiring seeing this loop go on and on and on and seeing the same people going "why does it keep getting worse" while also making it clear that they are fine with it getting worse.