Bluesky wont happen no matter how hard they push right now. Its not offering anything fundamentally different. It will pull from X but will stay niche.
Odd. My homepage looks nothing like that. I wonder what I'm doing wrong?
Right now I opened the home page, paged down through the top 20 or so bloots or whatever they're called, and got:
- An MSNBC video about fighting back against conservatives
- A post celebrating that a "right-wing lawsuit" to review voter rolls failed
- That BrooklynDad dude complaining about Trump supporters
- A post comparing conservatives to the Empire from Star Wars
- A post chastising White people for having opinions on some controversy involving Black celebrities
A lot of whiny us-against-them rhetoric, but it's not toxic because they are conservatives. In between those, there are cat pictures, some shower thoughts type posts, landscape photos, and comics. This was a marked improvement over the page when I opened it yesterday.
The major accounts from twitter are not on bluesky, but I don't care for vitriol or meme replies (all of which are much higher on twitter). That being said, twitter still has a lot of interesting people, who are the main reason to continue using the site.
I did make an account to test the waters with such statements, and wasn’t immediately banned, so maybe it’s not true.
Yes, but not particularly.
> Political lines are now about acknowledging facts or not
Political lines are about which facts you accept. On many of the social issues of today, which are far more contentious than economic ones, liberal "facts" are often two lies and a half-truth wearing a trench coat. What liberals[1] want is a monopoly over which facts are on the table, and for all discussion to take place within that framing. And accusations of toxicity, harm, disinformation, and bigotry, are employed as rhetorical tools to preserve that monopoly.
[1]: By "liberals" here I don't mean average liberal voters, but politicians, pundits, influencers, and the class of affluent, politically-engaged people who tend to set the tone generally.
Not particularly what?
> Political lines are about which facts you accept.
Right, one side outright makes up lies and denies things.
> liberal "facts" are often two lies and a half-truth wearing a trench coat.
I see your footnote, it's still nonsense. Conservatives outright lie, Trump an JD outright admitted to making up the story about Haitians eating pets which did incredible harm to a community, and conservatives lapped it up and asked for seconds instead of, you know, holding them accountable.
I don't care either way i just think the collective effort to push it wont pan out but please hype away.
1. It is built on an open protocol
2. User controls and choice, they decoupled {algo, app, data, moderation} and users decide which ones they use. Anyone can build any of these and offer them up without having to change social network. In short, they created a social media fabric with built in competition on the supplier side while removing the switching cost for users