There's a lot of dialogue about Bluesky being a progressive echo chamber or whatever. But to me, a reporter who's neither racist nor insane, it's currently the best Twitter replacement because Twitter serves me nonstop racist and insane stuff and Threads won't do breaking news. Truly that simple.
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Even if you know Bkue Sky or MSNBC is an echo chamber it narrows the range of views you are aware of.
But also, as I’m sure you know, most people are not meta-aware of their content mix and believe what they see is representative.
But I know thats a rather European POV.
Useless waste of time, that one.
Ive been on Twitter since 2009
Created a Blue sky account like a year ago or so.. but finally have committed to it. I've gotten so sick of how toxic Twitter has become. It's never been so vile until Musk ruined it.
(And I used to be a 4channer as a high schooler) 😬
And im here for it
They are not rivalrous.
I don’t expect that’ll last long for me though.
I AGREE WITH EVERYTHING YOU SAID
...echo chamber humor...
Here, you can choose to silence them.
Progressives make up only a part of the panoply of Bluesky members. Here you are surrounded by writers, artists, scientists, teachers, etc, etc.
so by default they're all progressives now
It's "X."
It serves "posts."
Twitter is gone.
Xitter, where the Xittheads wallow in their Xitts.
Even Elon doesn’t think of it as x always so why should I
I have plenty of people on my Bluesky feed I profoundly disagree with, but what I disagree with them on is things like how to make housing more affordable or whether a certain book is any good, not whether trans people are human beings.
If the Post and the Times and CNN and MSNBC left that pit - they would hasten it's demise.
And, it's becoming a moral question to remain on Twitter. I don't want to get news from the stayers.
Journalists who remain on Twitter are making a moral decision.
I continue to be steamed about the demise of twitter as a victory for racist insanity.
Could y'all recommend some, pls?
The good generally outweighs the bad by a large margin.
Their algorithm is fucked and designed to create beligerence, I want to talk giant robots and making stuff. Things that are fun. The other stuff sucks
The GOP could put the most progressive voters in the world in a room, feed em pizza, ask them what they like about Kamala, and then spend the next two hours taking notes about what they DON'T LIKE.