Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · Jun 8 582 likes 463 replies
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I was assuming that the decline was due to the deluge of cat postings in my feed. Please find a way to tweak the algorithm to make it stop.
True the other side can’t read.
Did you sell all your stocks in 2021 after a prolonged selloff?
This is a safe haven from the “diversity” of fascist bots & propaganda for many. They still manage to creep in but so far it’s wonderful & I personally don’t want to be a part of a community that invites morally bankrupt people & bots just to increase clicks & posts. That’s why I left Meta.
Data? You're trying to argue with someone using facts?! Have you seen what these people believe about reality? If they don't believe it, it can't be true! What do facts have to do with it?
It’s kinda ironic that the WaPo is the one saying that BlueSky decline stems from never hearing from the other side. Here’s the thing. Engagement happens here naturally. It ebbs and flows. It’s not on constant hype mode. It’s more authentic.
Ok Mark, It seems that there are other platforms overwhelmingly right wing, this is obviously left, seeking comfort isn't new just host a neighborhood barbecue and watch genders gravitate toward each other. I understand your perspective but X, Trusocial and Twitter X are hostile. This is comfort.
My stress level is far lower here than at that Nazi place
Have you been to the other side lately? It's blatant racism, sexism, xenophobia, and outright fascism as not only normal, but desirable.
Didnt you respond positively some bullshit Musk spewed?
Now what percentage of engagement or activity on each platform is bots vs real people?
I don’t think you can look at a global traffic number and decide that is the primary reason. There are so many other ones: the influx of Brazilian users when X was banned may have dropped of, etc.
umm… I’m good with letting the fascists all stay on twitter
What about true social? X Is a cesspo. Please give us a fucking break
That is one data point. What about X and Fox? Most media tends to specialize in a certain demographic.
I would have to agree. Everytime I come on its just a bunch of angry liberals yelling at the sky. Its the same topic every day Trump is bad, the DNC is bad, why don't we have more unelectable progressives, etc. The echo chamber here is similar to Twitter it is just more liberal in tone.
I don’t think it is from not hearing from the other side, I think we are being heavily saturated by the other side daily and frankly we are full! We are rapidly reaching the “do something” phase whether it is protests, strikes or shutting the country down…
Whomp whomp. People will go where they please. 🤷♀️
Hey make that graph go back a bit longer and maybe you will be arguing in good faith
The "diversity of thought" on X, where every single left-of-center post was met with the digital equivalent of tomatoes and eggs relentlessly to the point of exhaustion was why we left X. But you know that......
That curve looks like it’s leveling out to me
Who is the WP actually talking to to arrive at that conclusion?
How can we resolve this to bolster the usage?
The jump from "more opinions" to "don't sympathize with Nazis" is a little quick in the comments. We can embrace more thought while still drawing lines in the sand with moderation. We can have a better platform and avoid being an echo chamber
Well you see… The problem here is most non-liberal posters simply show up to insult or argue… or both. Very rare is there any rational right wing thought really worth engaging. I’m 74. I have no time to spare for insult, ignorance or abuse. None. Zero. Zip. Nada.
Go back to X.
I reject the premise that posts with differing opinions are more important than posts with accurate facts.
@mcuban.bsky.social Why not use Deleuze and Guattari's rhizomatic theory of a nonlinear, interconnected, non-hierarchical organism to build the new economy. Or maybe it's been done. Are you paying attention? Everything doesn't have to be subjected to competitive mediation to be valid, does it?
This is clearly a misunderstanding of reality. Everything is a bubble. Simple. Fact. The question is how to we connect the bubbles to advance society and the human condition? Any ideas @mcuban.bsky.social ? If you need help with that let me know.
You’ll never know what that trendline looks like for X because there is no transparency and they will never publish it.
Yes people love arguing with strangers.
Lack of maga, crypto bots and Nazis is what makes this platform usable. The only problem with engagement on Bluesky is sports twitter and the non-political popular shitposters and their followers didn’t make it over here
This chart is meaningless without also showing X/Twitter and social media as a whole.
Well, I can’t read the (take note) opinion piece as I cancelled my WAPO account when (Bezos) decided not to present a diversity of opinions. #irony And as others have noted, Mark, where do you see thoughtful, good faith conservatives posting to any degree? No one wants to have to cut thru the bs
It’s still so much better. Who needs more if it’s just so much garbage?? I’ll take small and quality, thanks.
Mark, just because most of the United States has daddy issues doesn’t mean we have to create a product for them. Fuck them. You’re just chasing a singularity like the rest of the data hawks.
NO SHOCK: the “good billionaire” implies we need to listen to confederates and nazis. There’s no such thing as a good billionaire. They’re all ghouls
When “the other side” presents nothing more than fabricated and regurgitated talking points rather than discussing anything in good faith… Don’t let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.
Says the Washington post who’s owner bent the knee to an authoritarian president
If you're worried about fewer people reading your posts, you could always see how good your numbers are on X, Facebook, or Reddit and switch if they're not to your liking here.
My twitter was balanced, left for a couple of years, it felt like being force feed by an algorithm. I returned it was 90% rightwing conspiracy nuts, Sorbo, Woods, Gibson etc. I wouldn't mind if they had a valid point but it's just hot garbage. Bsky may be less balance, but it's more factual
Mark, as you and I both know, there is a certain subset of people that hate life so much they want to see everything good around them, destroyed. The only way to rise above this is to push reason, logic, posivity, and information. Truth will always win out. Keep being a light in darkness.
Ugh. I’d leave here too if right wing hate was shoved down my throat.
The other side? Fascists!
We already know what the other side thinks. “Trump is great and just have to believe in him blah blah blah.” We don’t need any of that here. Go to x for that crap.
The thing is, we don’t want right-wing shitposters here. I’ve heard you have group chats for that.
I think the trick is to expand the topics and the number of different communities here. MAGATS don't have the mental capacity to have an adult conversation on political topics, so hoping for improved political debate here is a pipe dream IMO. They don't even perform well on their own home turf.
That's not a bad thing, Mark. Most people on this platform move on from bad ideas instead of engaging. Bad actors get bored and move on. I don't think a positive place for idea sharing is bad because the numbers aren't big enough. Is Harvard bad for being exclusive?
On the other hand, engagement on this site isn't governed by kissing a billionaire's ass, surely you agree that is far more important?
Nobody gives a shit about this dude, we yeet nazis here so fuck off
Do other platforms, with actual real individual users, have an increase in users? For those around me, they've stopped using social all together because of surveillance and bad actions of the broligarch.
I no longer read the washing post, maybe Jeff's upset bluesky do not have Amazon adds yet.
People don't seem to have learned after the last election. People on Reddit acted shocked, but the next day went right back into their bubble.
They are welcome here but they can't post lies about drumpf they can post their opinion and facts not made up crap
Mark, one of the reasons I DON’T post more is because I don’t have to “fight “ with people!
I don't agree with this assessment.
Big Cdn fan!! Make BlueSky like Twitter but eliminate Hate Speech. It must be open to all opinions but not Hate speech. Define it and monitor for it. Always good to have healthy debate
Debate is great, but some things should be givens. Are we all equal or are some more equal than others? Do we want to be a democracy even if the “others” are included? Should we cut taxes for some while taking food away from others? Sometimes there are simply not “good people on both sides.”
The hate on twitter made me leave. I’m not going back. Everyone has opinions, but trying hard to bully and hurt someone mentally is not what should be allowed, but Twitter seems to encourage it. The worse the hate the better they like it.
So, why not invite some Nazis, Mark? Surely Musk is free these days.
Preferring the engagement you get on X to the “fraught” engagement you have to endure on Bluesky is bizarre. Refusing to even engage with the audience on Bluesky with duplicate post is a revealing choice. AI slop and unregenerate racism are objectively bad btw.
Neat. Now do "X" and subtract out the bots.
Turn this into twitter adjacent and you will see no engagement. Stop shitting on the people who helped build this platform. Mark we know you are an investor. Stop with the bullshit.
What’s the fix? How do we engage in healthy conversation when healthy conversation seems temporarily dead?
Mark, if you don't like it here, you can always go back to Elon's hate site. Not sure what you are trying to accomplish with today's threads.
how's Twitter doing?
Wrong! We don't want the hate! We are very happy. You can't send a Pic in a private chat. There is no edit. There is very little push to get more subscribers.
What KIND of diversity, Mark? Please name it because I see a lot of groups here who were driven off Twitter by relentless bullying and hate. So who is missing and why are they so essential? Can you put words to it?
Marc - the “lack of diversity” of thought because we aren’t inviting people who would see us dead in real life for opposing their dear leader to comment on our thread? If I had to guess who lacked diveristy of thought in his circle it would be a Billionaire white guy w WAY TOO reach in our world.
Not every side deserves to be heard
We tend to engage more when we disagree with people vs when we agree. Human psychology.
Oh yeah. It’s a crying shame we can’t get more Nazis here. Fuck off
Is it that, or everything is dominated by politics right now? If you're not into that subject, then you're going to lose a big audience.
Tell that to Bezos
In other words, without the fighting, platforms don’t do well. It’s almost like they are designed to pitch people against each other to generate engagement. 🙄
whatever it may lack re diversity it's leagues ahead in terms of coherence and factual accuracy. and re civility it's kinda like the difference between a purse lipped tut tut and a knee to the groin.
Bluesky needs more Nazi voices or those who believe in American exceptionalism cannot face critics who say it is crumbling under the regime of corrupt Nazi idiots? You decide
I think the "diversity of thought" you're seeing on the other site isn't real- it's really just fringe beliefs being propped up by bots, nation-states, and bad actors.
oh no we are totally missing out on the refreshing takes from the nazis what shall we do
You can fuck off on this one. Sorry that I don't want to be surrounded by literal fucking Nazis. You're free to fucking leave.
They'd be more welcome if they wouldn't post things that violate the Terms of Service and basic human decency. Why don't you go on Twitter and try to reason with them?
I believe Elon will help BlueSky again by his own actions. :-D
Respectfully disagree, @mcuban.bsky.social … the 👿 of ❌ live in their own angry echo chamber, and believe Faux News. You assume we don’t hear differing opinions here, but we do, and we agree to disagree and move on. Don’t buy in to Bezos’ blah blah BS.
Now do the radical right and X. Oddly that article never appears.
I again ask you, what diversity of thought is missing here? Be specific
Maybe it’s because many of us are flippin’ speechless.
Not hearing from the other side or whatever doesn’t mean we are not aware of what they say and do. It’s up to the individual on Bluesky to curate their feed. Each to his own.
It would be good to include those from the MAGA groups and also traditional conversatives and right-wingers. However I think we need to hold them accountable and force them to drop the willful ignorance that has taken over. You can't have a rational or productive conversation otherwise.
Feel free to leave
Unfortunately, I do t see a way to increase diversity of thought without things deteriorating to hateful redundant rhetoric like is found on the other platforms🫤
1. I don't find "diversity of thought" on Twitter, I find another (now far-right & conspiratorial) echo chamber. 2. I wonder what a similar chart for Twitter would look like, if we could get an honest one?🤔 3. The diversity Twitter is missing isn't of "thought" it's of content. >>
Mark, show me the right wingers that are open to fact -based dialog about ANY current issue. If you are still supporting this "administration " you are a lost cause! I'm sorry but that is just how it is now. They belong to a fucking CULT!
Please post Xitter's engagement data, oh wait, Edolph won't tell us! Sure it's not great that user engagement on Bluesky has decreased but user engagement on Meta is decreasing and I'm certain Xitter's engagement is probably declining as well.
Take it from WaPo, they would know what happens when you only tell one side
Dude we are all tired and distracted by the cluster fuck around us. This is a billi9naire problem. Not a lay person problem. We are all ok.
Baloney!
We don't want a Nazi Bar
Nah, We were all more active straight after the election. Now we got back to normal in a sense that we don’t post too much. Yet I use the platform daily. The amount of posts is irrelevant because sometimes it’s just retweets and quote tweets or repetitive commentary of same things.
I prefer quality to quantity, overall. Considering the mess we’re living through right now, which will have a direct effect on our future, other fluff subjects seem trivial to me. I don’t have the bandwidth nor patience to deal with crazy/stupid and prefer logic/reason and big picture thinking.
This objectivity is why you're a billionaire and the comments on here aren't. You're 100% right. This is a ridiculous circle jerk. A bunch of furries advocating for open borders for ONLY the US with non justification other than to virtue signal.
Which is more productive? Reach 10,000 assholes or 1,000 good people who show up? Only 1 in 100,000 cultists will ever leave their cult. It's a cult Mark, they are all gonners. There is nothing for me on X. Literally nothing. We hang out here and also on Substack. Substack is GREAT now
Paywalled. Pls give a quick summary of what it says. Thank you.
or maybe we`re really depressed right now
The purpose of social media isn't to validate Republicans views -- and one can only consider BlueSky to have "failed" if one uses that as the metric.
Nah tho
Trust a billionaire to think that the only measurement of success is perpetual growth.
What I am seeing on my feed nowhere near matches my list of interests. Everything I see is political. Put the emphasis back on interests.
I'm here for the dog, cat, and all the other assorted animal pictures.
Buy it, Mark.....
Lol just stop with this bullshit. There's absolutely nothing to gain intellectually or morally when conversing with fascists. Giving them a platform is how we got in this mess.
Cool, now do Twitter.
Twitter is owned by EM. That’s the #1 reason I won’t use it again.
I'm surrounded by maga's "diversity of thought " irl every day. The entire reason I'm here is to take abreak for a minute.
Or perhaps those posters that aren’t posting anymore were bots or trolls…
WaPo. Over it. Nuff said.
Most people went right back to X because this place is nothing but a blue cult echo chamber.
Bluesky is a much calmer site, less biased content. I follow who I deem to be legit news sites. We need more mainstream sites to join and post—not just create an account and then not use it.
Everything doesn't have to have exponential growth, Mark.
Definitely a decline! Thank you a lot for the metrics. Initially, bluesky look like a safe place rather than “X“ and Elon or threads and Zuck. I can get plenty of arguing at the other sites. Blue sky, affirms, and confirms my fears of the Trump administration. This is my safe place. I’ll stay here.
Fair enough. But it’s been hard to find voices on the right cogently explaining their thoughts/opinions. Especially lately (like since Jan 6th.)
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@mcuban.bsky.social we are gonna keep neutral like www.switzerland.com old twitter had no blocks but if you said the wrong thing on X that directly effected the BORG boss in charge blocked like @bsky.app it all seems like its moving for authoritariasm everything is for a power play no balance
Oh man. That totally sucks that people with nothing to offer who we don't want to talk to anyhow aren't posting here as much. Would be a real shame if you did likewise.
How is Truth Social surviving without any alternative viewpoints? Or OAN? Or Info Wars? Is this just more bs?
Go promote Nazis somewhere else then, you won't be missed.
lack of diversity ffs. no exchange of ideas ffs. so what did mofos do before social media spewed its filth?
Quality over quantity, any day. Also, remember how, on forums, politics were usually banned or relegated to one area where only some users would go to argue, while everyone else hung out on boards dedicated to the actual topic of the forum? There was never any golden age of non-polarizing,
president musk, Zückerbucks, capt Blue Phalanx and Mr Cuban want you to believe Bluesky is failing
It is in the 'Opinion Section' for a reason. It is one person's opinion. No one wants to re-create Twitter. As someone who uses multiple social media platforms; each has their usefulness. Bluesky is like attending a retreat in the Vermont countryside. We just want a little peace in our lives.
You are an expert on this subject, but the lightness of sports coverage would be an easy target for increase.
Maybe it is just a season
We can't have ONE fucking thing where the cult can't follow us? Fuck you and fuck off. We like it this way. Maybe posts are down because all the pieces of shit left. Good. Bye.
I've really cut back. I used to get occasional likes from some of the 'big names'. Now even that's stopped. Lots of posts; less interaction with the average guy (notable exceptions: Mark Cuban and George Conway).
Come on, Mr. Cuban. This is no longer "we can have different opinions on politics." We are way past that. Zero tolerance for Republicans and Magats. They have nothing of value to add to the conversation. They are killing democracy.
Sometimes I’m blown away at how obtuse you can be. But I guess you don’t have to be smart to be rich. And when you’re rich you fall out of touch.
I value this platform but am genuinely concerned: you forecast the declining usage/activity out a couple years, and it's not a great situation I've no idea what's causing the trend line and am not smart enough to have ideas on what might help
How do we get diversity of we have other platforms the extremists can go to…….extremists stick together…..they are not about having a rationale dialogue
Diversity is not MAGA or Christian nationalism — that's driven by hate and fear. By the way, BSky, slow down. People are afraid of repercussions. Keep that in mind, okay?
Hmmm, Washington Post Opinion you say? Ok then.
Not sure if I agree or disagree. What is your definition of “diversity of thought”? Does it include lies and fake news? Or, do you mean different opinions? If it’s the former, I disagree. If it’s the latter, I agree.
Giving a different view turns people into verbally violent monsters here just like it does on X. Different side of the same coin. I could say Trump knows how to hold a steak knife correctly and Dems will lose their mind telling me I'm a nazi.
You mean the lack of conspiracy theorists, facists, and liars is hurting usage… sounds fine to me
Yes, any platform that recruits a particular political side isn't ultimately going to do that well. Echo chambers really aren't interesting, which is also why Truth Social is stagnant. Even Twitter is going in the echo chamber direction, but not as much.
Look, I have no objection whatsoever to hearing the opposing point of view. The only problem that I invariably encounter is their complete inability to formulate a coherent, Cogitative argument. Most of it is nothing more than neofascist, alternative fact based, nonsensical gibberish...
It doesn't matter. Your gauge of success is wrong. What does matter is getting more content, and I'm referring to current, immediate content that's relevant, i.e. videos and commentary about ICE raids, etc. People and media need to stop using Twitter.
Nice try Jeff
It is a bubble, but Jesus, it's nearly impossible to have an intelligent conversation with conservatives these days. The cult is powerful.
Well let’s get monetized, feed some coal into the old algorithm and see if we can’t fuck this one up too!
I disagree. Happy?
Letting shitty people make shitty takes is not encouraging diversity of thought. There's plenty of diverse thinking. The fascists can go fuck themselves on X in their echo chamber. This is pot calling the kettle black level stuff here.
tbh though, i don't come here for discourse. i could go on literally any other social media platform for that. I like the peace here and block features. And I'm not swarmed with negativity and doom posting every time i open it. Bsky has room for improvement, of course, but that will come with time
Well, we all know who owns the Post and his obsequiousness to 47 It’s not good business. It’s toadyism. It’s evil and ultimately it is gutless.
Why should we let people who are pro racism, pro Nazis, anti women, etc into our space? They are in it to see people suffer. There is no compromising between "please let us live" and "you don't deserve to live"
So how do gather diversity of thought? Would you say this exists on X or TruthSocial? I truly don't know this. Are we ALL echo chambers in parallel? Where does safe discourse happen if not in places such as these that REACH masses of people?
No Bluesky is made of folks sick if having MAGA bulls*it krammed down our throats, and expect is to believe it.
What’s your solution? (Please do not tell me to join X. That’s not happening.)
We're fine, WAPO. We don't need the kind of engagement you seem to revel in, and a fall in uniques means the MAGAs got frustrated and left, which is good.
Do you find conservatives willing to have a conversation? My experience on social media with conservative views are they refuse to engage or the deep state type resort to name calling & conspiracies. Does x or conservative social media have diversity? C’mon.
considering the Washington Post's own editorial policy, their critique of a BlueShy echo chamber is total bs... Bezos: Opinion and analysis in the Post was thus going to limit itself to one particular viewpoint. your receipt: theconversation.com/washington-p...
Lack of diversity of age and foreign users and others. Sadly boring and repetitive.