I am told Bluesky is an echo chamber. - ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

paulcrider.liberalcurrents.com • 3 days ago

I am told Bluesky is an echo chamber.

Reposted from Waleed Shahid

The top 25 political and news accounts on X in the past 30 days.

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jadehawk.bsky.social•2 days ago

only if the echo in question is fucking LRAD :p

epiousios.bsky.social•2 days ago

I don't like identity politics hate, white supremacy and phobias - and I hate them even more when they echo.

paultopping.bsky.social•3 days ago

I guess each modern tyrant must have their own private social network. Musk has X and Trump has Truth Social. We should encourage everyone sane left on X to come over to Bluesky. We needn't bother with Truth Social.

sanchopanzasmule.bsky.social•3 days ago

It's always funny that RW fascists insert the word Social into some part of their platform.

National Socialist
Truth Social

levpetrovitch.bsky.social•2 days ago

Do not forget the "Italian Social Republic" by Mussolini.

heleline.bsky.social•2 days ago

An age old right wing tactic and, I think, the origin of the pseudo-scientific "horseshoe theory". Poison the well against political opposition by appropriating labels and get people to associate them with right wing politics.

luckyjim1980.bsky.social•9 hours ago

Lol this one of the reasons that Hayek, a genuine conservative, avoided the use of "social" whenever possible, and even went so far as to denounce it as a "weasel" word.

One of his last books contained an entire chapter on the use and misuse of social.

cdobs.bsky.social•2 days ago

It is but, it is also self-reflective. That’s not a bad thing.

starlightshelling.bsky.social•3 days ago

MAGA lie

aussophia.bsky.social•2 days ago

Christ Pod Save America isn’t even a dot on that

madams5000.bsky.social•2 days ago

To be fair, it kind of is too.

the-art-of-hobbes.bsky.social•3 days ago

And Twitter….. isn’t? I’m not sure if irony or schadenfreud is more applicable here.

leftbraindem.bsky.social•3 days ago

The right-wing media ecosystem far exceeds anything the left can muster making it harder for liberals to get their message out. If Bluesky becomes “Liberal Twitter”, I’m perfectly ok with that. The fact that many liberal politicians and supporters continue to use X is a major source of frustration.

womanatmile0.bsky.social•3 days ago

Yes agreed. It’s like you can’t even do one thing

mikemusson.bsky.social•2 days ago

Every accusation from the right is an admission.

oakstave.bsky.social•2 days ago

Those blue dots need to disappear if I understand correctly.

You may walk into a bar and see a Nazi, and maybe that's just coincidence. But if nobody says anything, you're in a Nazi bar. Stop posting in the Nazi bar.

lizcious.bsky.social•2 days ago

I think if you are there to get into fights and try to tear these people down, that is acceptable.

oakstave.bsky.social•2 days ago

I might also add, that Musk is absolutely collecting a State's enemies list as Trump's Censorship Czar. Although we need to be brave.

oakstave.bsky.social•2 days ago

There's wisdom in that, but they have the algorithm to slap you down if you ever gain any traction. It's rigged, and it's rigged to make you look bad. Economic disengagement is the only peaceful tool we have left.

lizcious.bsky.social•2 days ago

Spitting in their face on their home turf is worth it. 🤷‍♀️

oakstave.bsky.social•2 days ago

There are people who get off on that.

lizcious.bsky.social•2 days ago

Good! Once identified, they can be made to undermine their own cause in order to *earn* the scorn they crave.

ngc2903.bsky.social•2 days ago

I bop in occasionally to take potshots at my lunatic governor, and occasionally to post a very on point meme to Trump, then leave. I don't engage notifications, although some might actually be supportive. Also, X does better on local weather catastrophes since I'm in a red state and X is red.

othiym23.bsky.social•1 day ago

I mean if people want to be 2025 Alan Colmes for $0, I guess I can't stop them, but I think at this point libs and leftists arguing on X are functionally just providing sport for the chuds.

fredpassau.bsky.social•1 day ago

No it's not because the owner of the bar is a Nazi and as long as you don't have the power to make the owner close the bar or to sell it to you you won't change anything, except getting brawled on by drunk Nazis

guiri99.bsky.social•2 days ago

At this point, anyone doing business, promoting cultural content or sports on X should be ostracized and hounded just like during the 80s in apartheid South Africa. It’s unconscionable that otherwise good people continue to ignore the harm that X and its owner are doing to democratic values.

seaseaseasiders.bsky.social•3 days ago

I hate how America on bluesky or twitter run this platforms. Ple ty of the world do different things

judaind.bsky.social•2 days ago

Anyone got link for the data? Tried searching the title and all comes back to this same person again

paulcrider.liberalcurrents.com•2 days ago

Good question. I did not try to track it down.

ryokopanic.bsky.social•2 days ago

Blue sky can "become" an echo chamber if you use all the tools in the belt it gives you poorly. Like blocking too many block lists or replies from people etc etc. You can literally create a timeline of flowers inside a burning building. But only if you want that.

liliath.bsky.social•1 day ago

я в своё время вручную в твиттере забанила 17к человек

ryokopanic.bsky.social•1 day ago

great.....

liliath.bsky.social•1 day ago

блять чел ты витубер

ryokopanic.bsky.social•1 day ago

yup

liliath.bsky.social•1 day ago

...
я это с негативом писала...

ryokopanic.bsky.social•1 day ago

ok, so you dont like me, cool, dont care

justnews4you.bsky.social•3 days ago

Elon is a red super giant that eats everyone else. I do not wish I may or wish I might have his star!

jonarnesen.bsky.social•3 days ago

Echo chamber:
A digital "elevator" with a repost button
😃

The no-billshut-version:
Echo Chamber = social media
[…and editorial media with poor autonomy, factchecking and press ethics, and/or allowing unmoderated comment sections]

digitmusic.bsky.social•2 days ago

Every accusation is an admission.

stoopcat.bsky.social•3 days ago

aren't you forgetting that only leftists have echo chambers? magapatriot1776's media choices reflect the will of real americans™

talace.bsky.social•2 days ago

today we're echoing March Madness

toffphilippo.bsky.social•3 days ago

DJT doesn't have a complex about being so much tinier than Musk yet?

jamescalbraith.co.uk•2 days ago

The colour for most of these should be brown, not red

shriketron.bsky.social•2 days ago

Picture this, if you will, a black hole in Purgatory.

stormageddon.bsky.social•2 days ago

As always.

Every accusation is a confession.

pearls.bsky.social•3 days ago

📌

legjoints.bsky.social•2 days ago

I think it is unfortunately.

pollhereford.bsky.social•3 days ago

That looks more like farts in a jar.

sheilabjeletich.bsky.social•2 days ago

Yuck. I left Twitter when the "Laminate-faced" creep bought it out.

frankleewrite.bsky.social•3 days ago

Bluesky also is, yes

jonarnesen.bsky.social•3 days ago

You’ll know them by the repost button

iamkanyetwitty.bsky.social•2 days ago

Both things can be true

ohmyyy.bsky.social•2 days ago

bluesky is as well.
dont make that mistake.
we are just on bluesky's digital plantation...

smeent.bsky.social•2 days ago

Except that it runs totally differently

ohmyyy.bsky.social•2 days ago

knobs being turned and pushed are just another color. like difference between republican and democrat...

thinkfungus.bsky.social•2 days ago

Both can be true.

smeent.bsky.social•2 days ago

"Can be" doesn't reach "is"

thinkfungus.bsky.social•2 days ago

X is an echo chamber.
Bluesky tools of harassment make it an echo chamber as well.

lovovmelife.bsky.social•2 days ago

I don’t think Bluesky users believe that this platform accurately represents the median political views of America tho…the same can’t be said for the other place

thinkfungus.bsky.social•2 days ago

Let me let you in on a secret: not everyone is American.
And let me let you in on another one: the Western centric perspective of bluesky is by itself a bias.

lovovmelife.bsky.social•2 days ago

Never said everyone, or even that every x/bluesky user, was American. But basically all of those red circles in the original post are American or are in American government or comment primarily on American politics. And anyway, my point is that Bluesky is more self aware than x, not perfect

adamvanho.bsky.social•2 days ago

Anyone else notice how we haven’t heard a word about investors or buyers since Musk put a $44B valuation on X?

Potential investors/buyers when they heard that number:

uwemaurer.bsky.social•2 days ago

Here is similar data for Bluesky (likes,reposts instead of views): https://bluefacts.app/top-reach

markdegraw.bsky.social•2 days ago

Thanks for this link. 💙

majbe.bsky.social•2 days ago

Why don't you stick around for a bit and come to your own conclusion?

justvisiting74.bsky.social•2 days ago

X and Bluesky are now two separate worlds.

Those still on X believe in Trump, Musk, and are generally racist, fascists, Nazis, or the media.

Bluesky is for everyone else.

sophiemac.bsky.social•2 days ago

Not true. I still know people who haven't moved from there because they feel it's too big a change

igor-kitty.bsky.social•2 days ago

I stuck it out until the election but deluge of blue checks, monetized rage bait, AI, Temu, bots, wangs and Elon himself buried everything. It's changed a lot already and somehow got worse every passing day.

sophiemac.bsky.social•2 days ago

I know. I don't understand why anyone is still there. But there are people who aren't rabid right-wing freaks still there. I left in 2023 because I couldn't stomach it...

igor-kitty.bsky.social•2 days ago

At this point I thought even the Nazis would have given up trying to get a word in or find a post by another real live Nazi.

pr3ttypee.bsky.social•19 hours ago

What’s too ‘big’ of a change?! 😂 If people are having a hard time simply deleting an app of a Nazi—they won’t be any good to larger stances in reality.

sophiemac.bsky.social•19 hours ago

They say they're not seeing any of it. I don't believe that. But I'm not them. Ask them. There are a lot of them.

pr3ttypee.bsky.social•19 hours ago

Don’t have to see it. We all know who owns it— le sigh 😔 none of my friends are active on there, so those who still are I wouldn’t have much faith in.

pol-break24.bsky.social•2 days ago

Join, and find out for yourself. We need community and information in this lying trump Era. You have an alternative, let us know.

womanatmile0.bsky.social•3 days ago

🤣 exactly

democracy-dan.bsky.social•2 days ago

I have tried to have logical dialogue with people on various platforms (not x) only to be met with stock maga phrases. I welcome debate but it has to be grounded in fact.

smoljomusic.bsky.social•2 days ago

Every accusation from the right is a confession.

bbqtorix.bsky.social•3 days ago

Maybe it is, maybe it isn't, it's question of perspectives, how you see one another. Left X dec'31th after few years because of some Musk last rules and it's MAGA propaganda and definite echo chamber, as I had to deal with some.

keithmo.bsky.social•3 days ago

This tells me that Musk would give up SpaceX and Tesla before he’d every give up XTwitter.

jonarnesen.bsky.social•3 days ago

Rosebud ☝️😵

lilysnothere.bsky.social•2 days ago

Those satellites are his kids

wraithtek.bsky.social•2 days ago

At least one of the top 25 news sources on Twitter is an accused rapist and sex trafficker.

pat0615.bsky.social•2 days ago

I think nothing wrong with being an echo chamber. Who needs the hate.

daemonsquire.bsky.social•3 days ago

This looks like it makes a lot of sense to me, but I'd also *SERIOUSLY LIKE* to see a comparable chart for Bluesky that disproves what I anticipate would be an array of blue circles that, at the same scale, would all fit within one of the smaller red circles on this chart.

jalixe.bsky.social•3 days ago

their different opinions are just them hating different minorities lmaoo

jowilliams.bsky.social•2 days ago

Whereas X is an anechoic chamber. Anything you say there just gets absorbed into the walls and is never heard again.

fredpassau.bsky.social•1 day ago

No bro you need to believe me bro it's important to stay there and debate them bro, you can't just go away and leave the field to the Nazis bro this time it will work bro

smilo998.bsky.social•2 days ago

Just not a vacuum chamber if hate like twitter. Decent debate on bluesky.

giraffe-gorilla.bsky.social•2 days ago

Both can be true. BSky is an echo chamber. Very few discenting views represented. Occasionally you get the MAGA troll or two, but no genuine conversation. Twitter is also an echo chamber however. If only both voices were represented in one platform. Thats one thing federation might solve.

lorennacleary.bsky.social•3 days ago

That tiny Obama bubble. Still going like an energizer bunny. At least I’m assuming that’s who that Bara..is

thepeterbriggs.bsky.social•2 days ago

Baragon.

I think he thinks he can take Musk with one punch.

lorennacleary.bsky.social•2 days ago

Literally I could take Musk with one punch. He’s always high off his gourd.

thepeterbriggs.bsky.social•2 days ago

Remember when he ran away from a fight with Zuckerberg, who actually *does* do kickboxing?

ncfromnc.bsky.social•3 days ago

That's nuts. I can't believe Trump stands for this. Even though he's maybe mostly posting on Truth Social nowadays I bet he wouldn't like it if 1000's of people printed this and sent it to him.

riz4robot.bsky.social•3 days ago

get of twitter

the guy who owns it is a nazi

unless ur a nazi that means that he hates u
and would be happy to put you in a gas chamber

kill you and then use u to make soap
and shovel u and ur family into a ditch

elon musk and his pal donny are nazis

rudol.bsky.social•2 days ago

It's an echo chamber only when it's something #they don't like

godot47.bsky.social•2 days ago

Twitter is a cheap horror movie earwig that crawls into your ear, eats your brain and putrifies it.

craigsuperstar.bsky.social•3 days ago

You might enjoy reading this!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism

mattrigg.bsky.social•2 days ago

See. To them, it's not an echo chamber because they don't feel any other voices are valid.

Makes perfect sense!

wallykibler.bsky.social•2 days ago

Burn down twitter!

a32k.bsky.social•2 days ago

Anyone who thinks bluesky is an echo chamber needs to watch some of the absolute brawls between vegans and non vegans. I promise there is no lack of pointed debate.

giraffe-gorilla.bsky.social•2 days ago

Oh I've dealt with the vegan hornets nest. I tried not to block anyone here, but the vegans man, they make you go back on your principles.

But the pro-vegans were highly active on Twitter too.

But just because Twitter is an ech chamber doesn't mean that BSky isn't.

Sometimes it's good2touch grass