Leaving X for Bluesky has nothing to do with "not liking opposing views" or wanting a bubble. It has to do with X/Twitter being turned into a swamp of disinformation and hate, and not wanting to financial benefit a far-right Nazi-loving asshole.
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I think the Bluesky-as-a-leftie-echo-chamber thing is an attempt to reflexively control normies to stay put on what looks like it has become a brainwashing site.
I left X when it was still Twitter because of the toxicity. I joined Bluesky a few months back. Not that I am interested in stepping back to X, but I have never been called a “C” on X, nor was I ruthlessly bombarded by Pornbots that are more tenacious than a treatment-resistant STD! 🤷🏻♀️
Anyone writing op-eds about X and Bluesky representing an 'ideological divide' or 'polarization', while pretending they're the flip sides of the same coin, is either intellectually vacuous or a disingenuous douche.
I think that moderation tools that can stop brigading in its tracks and the absence of relentless fascist provocation make the possibility of discussion across political/ideological differences more feasible here, not less
Someone I followed (and respected) over there kept trying to justify it as "it's the neighborhood pub, differing views from a variety of voices" and it's like, buddy, the pub has become a Nazi bar.
I also would add Facebook to this. I no longer am having anything to do with Facebook due to their policies of suppressing anything that is true and promoting things that are false and promoting conspiracy theories.
I am curious if Bluesky can create a less combative culture to facilitate constructive disagreement. Even before Musk, Twitter felt like it provoked bad faith engagement.
People are free to associate with whomever they want. I don’t want to be around those espousing disinformation and hate. Thus I moved on to a comparatively nicer establishment.
I agree. I hung on X for quite a while because I do try to keep an open mind. I also reasoned that it was a free service that I didn’t have a stake in or claim to decide policy. But eventually I felt I was tacitly approving a worldview I opposed by allowing myself to be counted as a user.
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Insults that stress economy of words are higher order.
I tend to use "asswipe" as it connotes a lot in a little.
All the top replies used to be the most clever responses.
Then, they were flooded with bots and you couldn't actually find a genuine, clever response.