This obsession is unhealthy. Our horizons are fine. Also social media, for most, is not a job. It is not school. It is socializing. And it’s fine to say “I don’t want to hang out with Nazis, homophobes, transphobes etc in my free time.”
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The Globe and Mail
Opinion - The problem with Bluesky: It won’t broaden our horizons: In the wake of Donald Trump’s election win, the social-media platform has enjoyed a surge of new users looking for an alternative to Elon Musk’s X. But will it be useful, if it just creates an echo chamber for the left?
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And I have read so much interesting stuff since I got here. It’s like being in the best library, the best literary salon and cocktail party.
Perfectly said.
If someone wants to argue to me that... I don't know... trickle down economics works, sure, I'll talk about it.
If someone just wants to call me a man, I'm blocking them. Who I am is not up for debate
The right are in such an echo chamber they’ve convinced themselves that Elon is their friend.
It’s a bit like how good kids in class get in trouble for something small whereas the misbehaving children get away with a lot more.
I dunno, this might be nonsense
You (not you, Professor Gay, the *waves hands around generally* broader you) don’t get to decide for me or encroach on me in spite of my boundaries.
It's recycling early myths of the internet-as-liberation that techbros used to create a hero narrative of themselves.
If we’re not constantly listening to the worst, loudest, most hateful opinions, even in our relax time, it’s an echo chamber.
Let's have intelligent discourse without having to deal with these time wasting distractions.
But also yes, if we don’t associate with nazis etc. in person, why would we online?
There’s definite echoes of “terrible men are lonely; ladies, you should date them” in this bs
This weirdness that we’re “wrong” for saying we don’t want to hang out on a far right disinformation platform is ridiculous
IMO, the reason the RW media and various RW commentators are crying about it, is that their viewer count will go down and as their accounts are monetised, they will lose income / influence. They hate not being important.
I have found topics unrelated to politics on here. I can't say the same for the other platforms.
Why would I want to spend my time being bored by gross shit?
There's as many articles about this whole moving to Bluesky thing as there were about Biden’s age by now.
Imho, it's not an obsession of the "news" media, it's a *bullying campaign* for People to return to the bad place.
Now, these people with awful, inhuman views, are upset that Bluesky is here to let people choose not to engage with this parade of horribles. They're irate they can't force us to hear they think we're subhuman.
If I wanted to hang out with all sorts of ppl including the extremists & the Dumpster types, I'd just leave my house more and go just about anywhere else.
But I don't.
Being on BlueSky is a choice.
Sooo which horizons am I not expanding??
But they don't want to live amongst their fellow mega chuds. They want to assault and harass anyone they don't like! Taking that away from them is an echo chamber tho ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Do you think Republicans ever say to themselves, "Hmmm, we mostly have Right-Wingers on the air and mostly have Right Wing viewers"?
No. They. Don't.
Let's stop worrying so much and let this all unfold.
Plus let's enjoy the fact that Elon can't scrape our data.
It's almost as if it was right there in the name.
😉😂
Twitter used to be that and now it's not. Why is this so hard to understand for some?
I’ve missed having an online space I feel safe and welcome in.
I like it here better.
But I don't like it that we, the Blues, were genuinely shocked by Voldemort's victory.
We're not lying to each other, but we have a major blind spot
I refuse to support a fascist or play by his house rules.
Obviously plenty of good journalists and independent orgs but good lord the media at large is the last institution that should be telling the left how to think.
its rich they're calling bluesky an echo chamber. 90% of the ads I got were endorsing the trump campaign, so I think its pretty obvious who xitter is catered to
Where your feed reflects the vibes inside.
Scream with screamers, or seek serene,
Pet pics, landscapes, skies of blue sheen.
With tools in hand, you shape the view,
Follow the bold, or the gentle and true.
Here, choice is power—what will you do?
The media outcry and classification as an echo chamber sickens me. It rings true with libraries and schools removing controversial books from circulation.
Mass-blocking boring racist trolls should not be seen as the same.
Not sure why online I should have to stay to 'broaden my horizons'.
#intolerantleft
#socialcontract
#empathy
#understanding
#tolerance
#civildiscourse
#STFU
#humanrights
#civilsociety
Getting harassed, doxxed, having one's family, neighbours and friends threatened, getting "visited" is not normal. Enough.
No one who matters gives a shit what they think.
The real issue isn't the echo chamber of truth and love and joy we all share.
It's that we are happy here, we smother bigots in the womb and we don't give an inch.
And they can't sit with us.
My issue with X is it's literally broken and not useful. Posts go unseen, and they are full of bots. BlueSky is just better... even without all the features.
MAGAs”.
Why should I stay and “listen” to those whose starting point is “I wish you didn’t exist”.
They can just fuck all the way off.
On the implicit assumption in the article that echo chambers are intrinsically a bad thing
All Canadian* media wants to do is publish negative stories about Trudeau so that the Leopards Eating Faces Party can win here too.
*actually American owned
Not everything has to be everything.