every one of those op-ed columnists has spent years building up a follower list on twitter, many of whom left, and so they are angry because you owe them your attention ad to help them get paid, your entire existence is to facilitate their need to put in as little effort as possible, know your place - ThreadSky

nameshiv.bsky.social • 113 days ago

every one of those op-ed columnists has spent years building up a follower list on twitter, many of whom left, and so they are angry because you owe them your attention ad to help them get paid, your entire existence is to facilitate their need to put in as little effort as possible, know your place

Reposted from Dave Karpf

Step 1: Elon takes over Twitter, unbans and amplifies the worst white nationalist posters, methodically turns it into a right wing echo chamber.

Step 2: Users who aren’t white nationalists or MAGA extremists leave for Bluesky en masse.

Step 3: op-ed columnists fret, “is Bluesky an echo chamber?”

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geek19.bsky.social•113 days ago

Do you know how much it would COST David Brooks for a 2nd divorce and 3rd wedding?

maelstromdescent.bsky.social•112 days ago

Echo chambers can do just as much as bad ones can. That’s my hope at least.

adaminhfx.bsky.social•113 days ago

Don't worry, his department of efficiency is fixing that by requiring federal employees to buy a blue check. 🙄

horizontalhold.bsky.social•113 days ago

These sorts run on a very hypocritical cancel culture. They should welcome the silence and touch glass.

404apathy.bsky.social•113 days ago

When you know the difference between right and wrong and you gather in groups to celebrate your commonality, that's not an echo chamber, it's a family.

httorg.bsky.social•113 days ago

Amen. Like the other op-ed’s I keep seeing on adult kids refusing to see their abusive parents- who insist on remaining abusive. “People are refusing to stay in/support abusive situations! Whatever is happening??!!”

madamehardy.bsky.social•112 days ago

The columnists who always, always assume the injured parent is right. Read The Missing Missing Reasons, dammit.

httorg.bsky.social•112 days ago

The older I get, the more firmly I believe that all journalism’s degrees should include psych 101, and a psych 102- on personality disorders, focusing mostly on the different forms of Narcissism.

accountabilabuddy.bsky.social•111 days ago

"We voted for years to ruin the planet and corrode civilization, making it basically impossible for a normal person to raise a family.

Now why won't my adult children give me grandbabies?!?"

httorg.bsky.social•111 days ago

Cripes, I know. I’m filling out life insurance papers tomorrow for myself. And instead of thinking “Nest egg for grand niblings” i’m thinking “This will help with in home care bc there won’t be a next generation to look after them.”

jakesalza.bsky.social•113 days ago

and I'm blocking allllll of them

archer-07.bsky.social•112 days ago

Op-ed columnists can stay over there. Most of their opinions are dogshit

faineg.bsky.social•113 days ago

pictures of train butts will continue until the whining stops

andgirlhere.bsky.social•113 days ago

matty.wtf•113 days ago

Please continue threatening me with a good time

fibonacci.bsky.social•113 days ago

What's the Tumblr term for that again? Rent Lowering Gunshots?

cyclismo37.bsky.social•113 days ago

ttsci.bsky.social•112 days ago

ok hear me out

merchantofvice.bsky.social•113 days ago

Please used the preferred term, cabussy.

jpstarling.bsky.social•113 days ago

They’re also pros at farming outrage. Head on a swivel, y’all.

njsmith.bsky.social•113 days ago

Jokes on them. We’re out.

davidpetraitis.bsky.social•112 days ago

Rage farming.

tsumibito13.bsky.social•113 days ago

"Users of Bluesky aren't being called slurs under every post. This journalist asks, is this a healthy social media platform?"

holyramenempire.bsky.social•113 days ago

such original, brave reporting for these unprecedented times

(sarcasm)

epperson.bsky.social•113 days ago

I left during the early hours of step 1.

neiljrm.bsky.social•113 days ago

This place will settle down. Suspect many will head back to X to be close to the Co President. We can get back to shit posting and cats

robin.berjon.com•113 days ago

The below is generally terrible and a result of both aggressive intermediation from big tech and asinine meekness from the media. *However*, op-ed bad takes are strongly social-driven and I can't say I'm sorry their curve must be way worse still.
https://bsky.app/profile/josephpolitano.bsky.social/post/3lajfhq3dqk2h

siamesecats.bsky.social•112 days ago

Its not just enough to move here and unfollow them over there. We all have to not buy a single Trump related book, however critical. The whole reason they wanted him back was easy clicks and lucrative book deals. Deny them those book deals. https://bsky.app/profile/nameshiv.bsky.social/post/3lb3ptopehs22

elizabethheider.bsky.social•113 days ago

I didn’t get in on Twitter in the early days so I never understood what existed before it became so commercial and weird and hostile. Maybe that’s why this feels like such an unprecedented haven to me. Was Twitter like this once upon a time?

womanatmile0.bsky.social•112 days ago

Yes it was. Why I liked it so much

zeitkitty.bsky.social•113 days ago

Yep, and I’m paying attention to their follower/following ratios and if they join conversations or continuing to tell us what to think and do. Unfollowing has started, blocking will be soon. We need everyone that wants to join conversations feel like they can.

lurkymclurk.bsky.social•113 days ago

“All my work is destroyed!”
You mean like the racist violence of the Tulsa Riots that decimated an entire community?
“No just my twetes about wokeness ruining Yale, which are priceless”

relfal.bsky.social•113 days ago

In case you haven't seen this:
https://bsky.app/profile/captainawkward.bsky.social/post/3lau33u5uuk2n

lizbethd.bsky.social•113 days ago

Ditto for major newspapers

nameshiv.bsky.social•113 days ago

if people leave their employers might require them to have an account here and actually tailor content to their actual subscribers instead of whatever the nazis will boost hardest while they all scold the people who literally keep these writers employed, how dare you not understand the rules

irontuna.bsky.social•113 days ago

Free speech means you have to follow them and nod approvingly as you read their posts

veerieveerie.bsky.social•113 days ago

I am a little worried that they're just going to move here and bring their bullshit with them.

dbeatcatdad.bsky.social•113 days ago

They will, and we are free to block them. There's specifically a list for British columnists or British columnist adjacent pricks and I only ever see them in screenshot form:

https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:opdidxd3aomvmua7xnd6obfe/lists/3kc2e7efqqw2k

madamehardy.bsky.social•113 days ago

I'm very fond of A Very British Bigotry; so often I go off to block and that list has already done it for me.

https://bsky.app/profile/hedgehogsafety.bsky.social/lists/3l2lyvtks442a

dbeatcatdad.bsky.social•113 days ago

It's an excellent list

erinnthered.bsky.social•112 days ago

This is a good list!

interwen.bsky.social•110 days ago

📌

2sand3s.bsky.social•112 days ago

Yes, I asked & it was confirmed all handles added by them after we blocked, would all be treated the same. I just tested it with Badenoch

erinnthered.bsky.social•112 days ago

Every time I look at these lists I see too many strays. How is a parody account for the 10 Downing street cat causing harm? Isn't Led by Donkeys anti-fash? Is that what people want to avoid?

Some block lists strike me as burn books. Curation matters.

waspsummer.bsky.social•113 days ago

nuclear blocking, baby!

derrelldurrett.bsky.social•113 days ago

Yeah, nuclear blocks win.

heatherforward.bsky.social•112 days ago

Just did that for MAGAs. So good

daoistdoc.bsky.social•111 days ago

How do you do nuclear blocking?
I’m new here.

julianday.ca•113 days ago

That's fine, they can catch a block.

boazhsan.bsky.social•113 days ago

Moderation and blocking are better so far on bluesky. Better infrastructure and better culture so far. Long term, we do need to understand both the governance structures and financial aspects of this public good.

rajtham.bsky.social•112 days ago

Understand definitely but we need to plan to, collectively, push for highest possible standards, no?

wiredfire.spacecookies.co.uk•113 days ago

Bluesky has venture capitalists and financial investors. Sooner or later that *is* going to be a problem.

codejunkie.bsky.social•113 days ago

They filed themselves as a public benefit llc, so investors are not their primary focus. They are planning on doing subscriptions for advanced content, and possibly ads.

As long as they don't try to do an algorithm, I will subscribe.

wiredfire.spacecookies.co.uk•113 days ago

.. Bluesky already has multiple algorithms..? That’s part of their angle.

Investors might not be their focus right now but, in time, those venture capitalists and investors *will* come knocking. They will either demand cash or influence. We have see already how that goes :-/

delgadodb.bsky.social•113 days ago

Nuclear Blocking, ban lists and the inability to monetize means at least for now we can all relax.

lurkymclurk.bsky.social•113 days ago

And we will block their asses

casuallychaotic.bsky.social•112 days ago

It's usually better not to block them.

Muting them instead means they still see what you're posting, but you don't have to be bothered by their asinine responses. 😄

rvdshadyglenn.bsky.social•113 days ago

Waiting for the block list for NY Times, WaPo, and every other paper/columnist that fluffed Trump through the last year.

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