Invites are really common on other sites now that a critical mass has been reached where people have invited everyone they know who is interested already and are like selling them, there are already accounts that farm engagement on there like "funny cat pics of the day" or something and it will indeed have some cat pics taken from wherever but the point of the account is to follow thousands of accounts to get followed back, and thereby build a following to sell off. It's an extremely clumsy strategy but it's being pursued often enough that you can't just assume a bluesky account isn't a bad actor. So if that is the threshold then it's already been reached.

If you attempt to shitpost on Mastodon things don't usually go very well. The vibe had to match twitter circa 2013 or else it would never have felt safe enough for the first colonizing species of memes like alf hog to develop like the first plants in a lava field

It's called the gay community

A lot of journalists are really bad at using the machine they use to do their job and it shows.

Also what do you have against blind people

Have you been on bluesky? There's lots of furries there

If you go on Bluesky they will tell you. Lots of people saying that they feel isolated because there is no algorithm feeding engagement, and federation doesn't lend itself to finding your friends from Twitter easily without one of those migration tools people were using. Then another chunk describe Mastodon users as a "HOA" because someone told them to put a CW on something.

Floating point operations with decimals not always adding up

Oh no heaven forfend they take their heavy roadblocks out of narrow SF streets