No it doesn’t. Being an asshole isn’t ideological diversity, it’s just edgelording. Wanting livable wages, healthcare, peace, kindness-those are all supposed to be 99% agreeable stuff. Folks just want to live their lives and occasionally get Friday’s off work. These don’t require a devils advocate.
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Sean Kelleher
Bluesky needs more ideological diversity, a thread:
1/8: I think the question of why commentators like Matt Yglesias, Lakshya Jain, Noah Smith, Nate Silver and Richard Hanania don’t post more, or at all on Bluesky is important.
This would be a better platform if they did.
1/8: I think the question of why commentators like Matt Yglesias, Lakshya Jain, Noah Smith, Nate Silver and Richard Hanania don’t post more, or at all on Bluesky is important.
This would be a better platform if they did.
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It’s called X and we all fled because it became a shit hole.
But lets not give Fascism-enablers a platform/more visibility.
You use it when you need to argue a position or see both sides of a decision, it's not supposed to be a personality trait
They survive by gaming a centralized algorithm, and there isn't any one algorithm here.
Conflict is one way to do that, since it tends to cause more people to comment and platforms like Facebook amplify threads with many comments.