Marcus Hutchins @malwaretech.com · 11/05/2026Yes, platforms gain users. When people leave, they rarely delete their account. So the platform's user count will grown indefinitely. But the stats that actually matter is how many accounts are actually active. 110
Marcus Hutchins @malwaretech.com · 11/05/2026Your argument doesn't even make a modicum of sense at the most basic level. Even if I did only care about "influencing", influencing means engaging with the community. So the more reach, the more of the community I engage with. But ofc, your arguments are emotional not logical, so doesn't matter. 010
Marcus Hutchins @malwaretech.com · 11/05/2026My point isn't that the issues aren't fundamentally fixable, it's the Bluesky's team just doesn't care and won't address them. The platform has been bleeding users for years, meanwhile they just keep releasing more nonsense features. 110
Marcus Hutchins @malwaretech.com · 11/05/2026Accusing people of getting angry is such a lame cop out of actually defending your claim. Your argument about influencers is completely irrational an entirely emotionally driven. I spend most of my time teaching for free, and you spend your time opining on how I spend mine. 210
Marcus Hutchins @malwaretech.com · 11/05/2026It's simple. It impacts discoverability and reach for everyone. What value is a social media platform if it's difficult to find users to follow and difficult for people to find you? The whole platform feels like it'd be better off as an early Facebook clone where we all mutually follow eachother. 100
Marcus Hutchins @malwaretech.com · 11/05/2026I don't see you hosting free cybersecurity classes, funding people's educations, or helping raise cybersecurity awareness for the massess. I've literally never heard this argument from anyone who wasn't really just butthurt someone is getting more attention than they are. 110
Marcus Hutchins @malwaretech.com · 11/05/2026It's definitely the discoverability. It takes way too much work to even find accounts to follow. 100
Marcus Hutchins @malwaretech.com · 11/05/2026As opposed to what exactly? Someone who yells into the void? 110
Marcus Hutchins @malwaretech.com · 11/05/2026Anyway, if you're interested in tech/cybersecurity content and want to throw me a follow, I'm primarily active on Threads and LinkedIn at the moment. threads.net/malwaretech www.linkedin.com/in/malwarete... 6453
Marcus Hutchins @malwaretech.com · 11/05/2026Well, either every platform is better than Bluesky is some mysterious unknown way, or people are just gravitating towards them because they prefer the algorithm based experience. 210
Marcus Hutchins @malwaretech.com · 11/05/2026I've been here since the platform started, and this is the first I'm hearing about that specific feed. Do you see how that might not be a good UX. 200
Marcus Hutchins @malwaretech.com · 11/05/2026Because social media experience doesn't exist in a vacuum. How users use the platform affects the experience as a whole. If people use chronological feed, it's easy to inadvertently saturate their feed by posting too much, whereas on an algorithm driven platform, that is very unlikely. 110
Marcus Hutchins @malwaretech.com · 11/05/2026As explained in the post. I don't want to have to manually curate my experience by constantly following and unfollowing people, nor does the average social media user. In no other world would "the user just needs to work harder" be a serious response to a platform having bad UX. 130
Marcus Hutchins @malwaretech.com · 11/05/2026I don't know where you got "is dead" from. I never even insinuated Bluesky is dead. I said they fumbled becoming the next Twitter. The platform isn't dead, it is dying though, and will continue to do so because it has no widespread appeal due to the reasons I stated (and more). 100
Marcus Hutchins @malwaretech.com · 11/05/2026Sorry I don't want to commit massive amounts of time and energy to a platform that only shows me low quality posts. If I wanted to sift through mountains of crap for the occasional useful nugget, I'd take up gold panning. 230
Marcus Hutchins @malwaretech.com · 11/05/2026Bluesky's algo feeds are absolutely trash. To drive adoption you need a good user experience, not "here's an algorithm than shows you posts you don't want". 100
Marcus Hutchins @malwaretech.com · 11/05/2026I'm not really surprised that the active user count is in consistent decline and the only growth comes from random Twitter exoduses. But I am somewhat surprised by just how many people I follow have left within the last year. I'm also not joking when I say even LinkedIn has a better UX. 5/5 2252
Marcus Hutchins @malwaretech.com · 11/05/2026It's not really an issue of personal preference, either. When you prioritize chronological feed, that impacts new user's ability to find content they like, and creator's ability to get reach. The only people who benefit are the early adopters who built huge networks and reach. 4/5 3230
Marcus Hutchins @malwaretech.com · 11/05/2026On the modern internet where I can trust an algorithm to find me the content I like, the chronological timeline is an objectively subpar experience. It's a whole lot of work to manually find and follow accounts, just to see every their every post, instead of just the ones you're interested in. 3/5 3211
Marcus Hutchins @malwaretech.com · 11/05/2026The problem is, everyone moved on. Social media is driven by algorithms now, and that's what the overwhelming majority of users are used to and expect. So even if you build the perfect 1:1 clone of early Twitter, it just fails every time. At the time that was all there was, so people enjoyed it. 2/5 3242
Marcus Hutchins @malwaretech.com · 11/05/2026I think the primary factor that led to Bluesky fumbling becoming the next Twitter was pandering to early Twitter nostalgia. There's a very vocal minority who want a return to the chronological timeline based algorithm-free self-curated experience of the 2010s internet. 🧵 1/5 9557
Marcus Hutchins @malwaretech.com · 10/05/2026It's hard to understate how extremely difficult it is to tell if an LLM is analyzing data you feed it, or just predicting a likely response based on its training data. I've had so many problems with analysts doing this and not realizing the LLM just guessed the answer. 2254590
Marcus Hutchins @malwaretech.com · 10/05/2026AI bros: *see post about someone getting burned out by toxic corporate work culture" AI bros: "this is why you need to learn AI!" 0210
Marcus Hutchins @malwaretech.com · 10/05/2026I didn't mind them, they felt a little overpriced, but since the company went bankrupt there's no point buying more for me 010
Marcus Hutchins @malwaretech.com · 10/05/2026I only wanted a vacuum because my roomba has started crashing into things, but all the good vacs are mops now too. Figured I'd bite the bullet and see if an auto mop can really deal with my husky 100
Marcus Hutchins @malwaretech.com · 10/05/2026It’s super pretty, but the central button is a lidar turret that pops up, so I can’t put googly eyes on the bot without blocking the sensors 🥺 6381
Marcus Hutchins @malwaretech.com · 10/05/2026There's no space in the kitchen to put it, it would block every cabinet 100
Marcus Hutchins @malwaretech.com · 10/05/2026Nah I think is should use cameras for eyes because humans drive with their eyes. This should get us to market with a working product in under 10 years. 180
Marcus Hutchins @malwaretech.com · 10/05/2026Perfect! But did the CEO announce layoffs with a ChatGPT written post on Twitter? This is a must for me. 170
Marcus Hutchins @malwaretech.com · 10/05/2026I bought one of those fancy automatic vacuum/mop things. Actually pretty impressed by the AI mapping software. It just did a quick run through of my place, not the full wall to wall mapping Roomba does, and automatically figured out which room is which. 6251
Marcus Hutchins @malwaretech.com · 10/05/2026One of the coolest math things I've learned recently is the "wobbly table theorem". If you have an object with 4 legs, no matter how uneven the surface you put it on is, you can make it stable (all 4 legs touching the ground) by rotating it in place. It also never requires more than 90° of rotation. 78410
Marcus Hutchins @malwaretech.com · 10/05/2026Those are the exact kind of wonky desks I'm trying to avoid 110
Marcus Hutchins @malwaretech.com · 10/05/2026Like, holy shit, the design looks incredible. LED accent lighting, built in power strip, and it's adjustable height. But every photo I can find is just some concept rendering which makes me suspicious that the real version is probably trash. 6280
Marcus Hutchins @malwaretech.com · 10/05/2026I'm trying to find a new desk for my YouTube set. I don't want to spend too much, but I cheaped out last time & ended up with some wonky shit that visibly moves when I lean on it. If it wasn't for the fact there's no real photos of this, only 3D renderings, my bank account would be RIP right now. 5271
Marcus Hutchins @malwaretech.com · 10/05/2026Hi guys, I'm looking for somewhere to store my digital money that uses a protocol which makes all transaction 100% irreversible. The thing I look for most in a platform is non-technical teams pushing code to production using AI. Does anyone know of any such places? 1412810
Marcus Hutchins @malwaretech.com · 09/05/2026Wait, shit. Does that mean my salary is because I'm not hot? 😭 1130
Marcus Hutchins @malwaretech.com · 09/05/2026The sadness will have to climb over stacks of furniture to even reach me 040
Marcus Hutchins @malwaretech.com · 08/05/2026"unaffordable cities" sorry that I don't want to live in the beige cube of sadness. 1191
Marcus Hutchins @malwaretech.com · 07/05/2026There never really was, but even my non-cyber posts flop now 120
Marcus Hutchins @malwaretech.com · 07/05/2026daaaaaam, the bleeding is way worse thing I thought. That's almost half the posters gone in a year 020
