Bret Fisher

@bretfisher.com

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Stats of posts and people posting them on X and Bluesky for KubeCone, with this summary text underneath the stats: Verdict: X Has More Volume, but Bluesky Has More Authentic Voices X has more raw posts (~260 vs ~190), driven heavily by corporate and bot accounts. The percentages are actually similar across both platforms — about 64–67% of posts on both are some form of marketing or corporate presence. However the unique human voices in Category 3 tell a starker story: Bluesky had ~54 distinct humans just sharing their experience, while X had only ~32. Bluesky's Category 3 is qualitatively richer — more humor, personal observations, reactions to talks, community moments. X's Category 3 is thinner and more diluted by news-summarizer accounts and amplification bots. One notable X-specific pattern: about 14+ near-identical tweets from different human-looking accounts all sharing the exact same Broadcom press release within hours of each other — coordinated PR amplification that has no real equivalent on the Bluesky feed. So yes — your hypothesis holds on X too. But the ratio of authentic-to-promotional is actually slightly better on Bluesky, and the humans posting there are doing so with noticeably more personality.
A Screenshot of amazon.com showing a book I purchased in 2000 named "Windows 2000 Complete, First Edition"
Bret puts on a beret, sunglasses, and a popped collar to act silly for the camera
A picture of my very-hip corduroy Hey Dude shoes in front of my dog Obi, sitting like a good boy for the camera. Obi is a 15 pound ruby Cavalier King Charles.
An AI image of Ryan Gosling portraying a fictional Star Wars Ken Kenobi in a fabulous pink robe and pink saber.
A scrolling list of Canva design templates for AI that all have similar colors of vibrant blue, purple, and pink.
screenshot of Cursor IDE trying to run system package update commands on macOS, and then trying to remove system components with a sudo command because it couldn't figure out how to build a Swift app.
My caviler King Charles dog and my laptop on my lap
My list of accounts I marked as a News List, including NYT, Register, Verge, Onion, XKCD, New Stack, and CNCF.
Me and wife at the beach taking a selfie with a flat brimmed hat on
A screenshot of this thread
David protein bar and three chomps meat sticks