[Zambyte]

I have an awesome circle of people on Bluesky that I'm connected with that very much care about each others feelings. I'm sure that's not universal on there, but the corner that I'm in on there has probably been my most pleasant experience on the internet ever.

[artursapek]

It’s performative. Not real

[Zambyte]

No it isn't. I have plans to meet people I originally connected with on Bluesky in person. I have received physical mail from people on the other side of the world that I connected with on Bluesky. I connected a person I met on their with my mother due to related personal struggles. Making this claim is really weird when you don't know anything about me or my friends.

[YurgenJurgensen]

I think it’s notable that your examples of people caring on Bluesky all involve moving to a channel other than Bluesky. Surely if the emotional connection were real, you wouldn’t need to move off social media to facilitate it?

[Zambyte]

What? If the connection was real, why would I limit it to a public digital timeline? That seems like that would be performative.

Kinda over picking apart my relationship with people on Bluesky. Just wanted to share that I have been really enjoying it.

[nathan_compton]

This is one of the weirder contemporary "anti-woke" takes. For one thing, that which is performative can easily also be genuine, and quite arguably if one feels genuine about something then one ought to perform it, hopefully in a way that makes it attractive to other people.

But on the subject of whether things are genuine or not, I see lots of actual, cash on the table, give money, mutual aid in these communities. I could understand performance as being artificial, but if someone is dropping cash to help a person out of a bad situation, that seems a pretty good definition of authentic to me.

In any case, "it's performative" simply does not imply it is not also real.

[Ar-Curunir]

What a sad mindset.