I have found myself using X less and less. I see VERY LITTLE return. You could argue staying on X helps you stay engaged with the other side, but the “other side” on X is 99% troll bots.
My assumption is that as X begins to lose more and more users Elon may start pumping more MAGA bots similar to what we saw prior to the election into X. It won’t get any better over there and my energy is better spent over here where I know i’m more likely to interact with real people.
This is the Paradox of tolerance, "if a society extends tolerance to those who are intolerant, it risks enabling the eventual dominance of intolerance, thereby undermining the very principle of tolerance." It's exactly what's happening on X/Twitter https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
I would like some R or MAGA to explain to me how hateful comments, verbal harassment, less viewed D accounts are going to create a climate of exchange of debate. Doesn't that produce an echo chamber instead?
BlueSky has politicos, BlueSky has streamers, BlueSky has reporters, BlueSky has the guy who wrote Babylon 5, BlueSky has mushrooms(!), and BlueSky has a block feature!
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
This is the first step-
Warm+Fuzzy
Good to see you here