Moderately interesting article, in light of news that bluesky is losing users and isn’t likely to become a twitter alternative anytime soon.
RetroRiboflavin on
I remember Nate Silver retweeted a post that Blue sky has reached extreme asshole saturation of one kind of asshole while Twitter still has some diversity in assholes.
geoguy78 on
This is so spot on. Also, I love Bluesky. It broke me of my Twitter-style social media habit. I left X and moved to Bluesky, but found it so infested with the most extreme brand of toxic progressivism that I quickly lost interest.
Progressives are the real “Blue MAGA”
Czech_Thy_Privilege on
Look, I just want to be able to read Mina Kimes’ posts without having to scroll through 20 replies that say “DEI hire”.
Excellent-Juice8545 on
Any Twitter-like short form message platform is going to end up this way, full of the biggest, most extreme assholes of whatever demographic uses it because of the nature of the medium.
CornstockOfNewJersey on
I still think it’s worth fighting for. A sizable Twitter alternative is needed and it’s among the best-positioned to be that. The underlying technology is cool too and could help stop oligarchs from controlling our social media if it took off. But yeah, it does suck, and unfortunately, I don’t think you can escape the Twitterati types no matter what type of Twitter alternative you build
Edit: I can see the argument for all the normal people trying to go to a third one like Mastodon or something so the nutjobs can stay isolated in their bubbles and we can leave Bluesky as a containment center rather than trying to rehabilitate it (and hope that Twitter decreases in popularity too), but any place that gets popular enough will just end up with nutjobs following everyone over and then you end up with the problems the article is describing again. Idk, maybe the solution is just to log off
MarzipanTop4944 on
>censorious liberal
That is an oxymoron. The very definition of liberal in the Oxford dictionary is:
>1. willing to respect or accept behaviour or opinions different from one’s own; open to new ideas.
The author is making the common mistake of confusing liberals with the authoritarian far left. He is missing the Y axis of the political compass.
DeleuzionalThought on
It’s much easier to find the kind of posts you want to see on BlueSky than it is on Twitter. And even if that weren’t the case, I’d much rather be on a platform where the biggest issue is Libs being annoying than on a platform where the top 15 replies on every tweet is from accounts with names like K1K3GASSER
probablymagic on
Yes, BS is for far-left nutjobs and X is for far-right nutjobs. Threads is for normies. Reddit is for furries, and shoutout to all of you. I’ll see you at the party!
jack57 on
Bluesky is fine and honestly these takes are really weird to me. There is a major circlejerk of hating Bluesky right now.
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Moderately interesting article, in light of news that bluesky is losing users and isn’t likely to become a twitter alternative anytime soon.
I remember Nate Silver retweeted a post that Blue sky has reached extreme asshole saturation of one kind of asshole while Twitter still has some diversity in assholes.
This is so spot on. Also, I love Bluesky. It broke me of my Twitter-style social media habit. I left X and moved to Bluesky, but found it so infested with the most extreme brand of toxic progressivism that I quickly lost interest.
Progressives are the real “Blue MAGA”
Look, I just want to be able to read Mina Kimes’ posts without having to scroll through 20 replies that say “DEI hire”.
Any Twitter-like short form message platform is going to end up this way, full of the biggest, most extreme assholes of whatever demographic uses it because of the nature of the medium.
I still think it’s worth fighting for. A sizable Twitter alternative is needed and it’s among the best-positioned to be that. The underlying technology is cool too and could help stop oligarchs from controlling our social media if it took off. But yeah, it does suck, and unfortunately, I don’t think you can escape the Twitterati types no matter what type of Twitter alternative you build
Edit: I can see the argument for all the normal people trying to go to a third one like Mastodon or something so the nutjobs can stay isolated in their bubbles and we can leave Bluesky as a containment center rather than trying to rehabilitate it (and hope that Twitter decreases in popularity too), but any place that gets popular enough will just end up with nutjobs following everyone over and then you end up with the problems the article is describing again. Idk, maybe the solution is just to log off
>censorious liberal
That is an oxymoron. The very definition of liberal in the Oxford dictionary is:
>1. willing to respect or accept behaviour or opinions different from one’s own; open to new ideas.
The author is making the common mistake of confusing liberals with the authoritarian far left. He is missing the Y axis of the political compass.
It’s much easier to find the kind of posts you want to see on BlueSky than it is on Twitter. And even if that weren’t the case, I’d much rather be on a platform where the biggest issue is Libs being annoying than on a platform where the top 15 replies on every tweet is from accounts with names like K1K3GASSER
Yes, BS is for far-left nutjobs and X is for far-right nutjobs. Threads is for normies. Reddit is for furries, and shoutout to all of you. I’ll see you at the party!
Bluesky is fine and honestly these takes are really weird to me. There is a major circlejerk of hating Bluesky right now.