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(7,094 posts)I've never agreed to be on any #FBR thing, and I always vet who I'm following, hence why I don't have many on my list, in comparison to others. Apparently, in their zeal to create followings, some people have no problems with just grabbing names and including them on lists. Bluecrew started on Xitter, and I sorta followed that, but they just were fishing for headcount, not actually providing any real interaction, nor activism, as I had hoped.
As far as my comment about big accounts, the majority of what I seem to see there are large accounts jonseing to get more followers, and/or marketing. What you call "working" accounts. In some cases, people just post nonsense posts, or as you note, worthless memes or AI art to generate engagement, and follower fishing. I don't do that. My accounts grow organically, from people I like to converse with, or have something in common with.
An example from right now:
Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social
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Closing in on 500k.👀
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I''ve never had him (or even seen him) respond to comments, and that holds true a good many "celebrities" there, whereas on Threads, for example, I've had interactions with people like Jeri Ryan, Rick Wilson, various politicians and others, as well as just regular folk. Threads focusses on interaction and engagement, not numbers of followers. If you want your account to be seen, you interact on a regular basis, and the more interaction, the more people interact back. I've sortof given up on commenting on Bluesky, as I've only ever gotten a few "likes" and almost no responses to anything. On Threads, I've had replies with well over 1000 "likes", while my account there is somewhat larger, it is pretty small by social media standards.
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