Shantell PowellShanmonster@c.im
Oct 17, 2026, 2:03 AM@annaleen FWIW, I get a lot more people sharing links to my stories on BlueSky than I do here. I guess it depends how many authors/readers you follow.
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Annalee Newitz 🍜annaleen@wandering.shopOct 17, 2026, 2:44 AM@Shanmonster I definitely have more online engagement on Bsky. But I rarely meet people at my events who say "I came because I saw it on Bluesky." They do say it about Mastodon.
Rob Ricciricci@discuss.systemsOct 17, 2026, 4:03 AM@annaleen @Shanmonster this place is far more social, in my experience
Johanna, CanCon varietyjohannab@cosocial.caOct 17, 2026, 4:23 AM@ricci @annaleen @Shanmonster One of the things about “fediverse” vs. At least the Bluesky flavour of ATmosphere is that we glom together in either geolocal or topical communities first, and the “everybody in the stadium crowd” of bsky is just streams of individuals who may connect, but seem to be broadcasting in parallel on the same firehose. It does seem to me that once an instance like wandering.shop has a digital-meatspace connectivity started, people go out to events they hear about.
- Shantell PowellShanmonster@c.imOct 17, 2026, 3:30 PM
- Shantell PowellShanmonster@c.imOct 17, 2026, 3:32 PM
- Johanna, CanCon varietyjohannab@cosocial.caOct 17, 2026, 3:38 PM
@Shanmonster @ricci @annaleen oh, same here. My observation is more about the Fediverse network somehow better-fostering the connection to 3D space things when they DO happen nearby. I find either local-to-me stuff and the GO OUT to it, or if I’m traveling, I’ll choose this network to look for 3D activities to explore when I get there.
Bsky like twitter somehow drove my 3D connections to online-only. Fediverse flipped that, I “meet” people online and then end up meeting in 3D more often.
- Shantell PowellShanmonster@c.imOct 18, 2026, 2:20 AM