"bluesky elder" is a meme from when some of the oldheads who signed up for bluesky in like january saw the influx of new users and tried to make a power play for manners and rules and what you can and can't do. Bee was in this and she called herself a "bluesky elder" which everyone promptly laughed
MOST IMPORTANTLY coined the phrase "bluesky elder", which i am still blocked by her for riffing on lol anyway, predatory skeeviness of the site back then makes a lot more sense when viewed in the lens of an online version of this vanityfair.com/news/2018/01/brotopia-silicon…
“Oh My God, This Is So F---ed Up”: Inside Silicon Valley’s Dark Side
www.vanityfair.comIt’s a running joke based on a now thankfully forgotten poster who coined the term to describe those of us who’ve been here since the earlier invite era. To be clear, “bluesky elder” is deliberately self-deprecating and derogatory. The joke is it’s not a good thing (she thought it was tho)
sweetbee tried to attack and dethrone drill, got bigmad when this didn't work (this is the origin of the phrase "bluesky elders"), left for nostr (twitter with even more crypto, jack's there since we were mean to him) and tried to create a sex worker exodus, quietly returned when that failed too
i am about 99% sure but i think sweetbee coined this term lmfaoooo
Neon Chinchilla
"Bluesky elder" The term is used only in two ways: -as an insult -as a joke It came from someone using it back in the day as if some sort of benefits and privilege should come from seniority and time spent on the site. It was, and still is, properly mocked. A meme I made about it from way back:
