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Comment by phendrenad2 | Hacker News Reader

Honey, we have a democracy, which means that the average Bluesky user votes, not just "prominent" figures.

Forgive me for not getting worked up by a random comment from tublerima456 on bluesky.

If we are going to use rando twitters to define groups of people, the right are white nationalists and support the mass murder of civilians. They vote too!

Uh-huh, that's how SCIENCE works, you take a statistical sampling. If you think it's just "rando twitters" then you're just blind.

> So, every poster on the internet is a real and authentic person saying real and authentic things? Cmon, try harder. > Sample garbage and you get garbage results.

Are you saying that it's mostly AI? What are you saying exactly?

AI, trolls, political groups, intelligence agencies, foreign adversaries, etc.

Do not let the internet define reality for you.

Okay, where can I get reality? Maybe I can get it from the news media, who will just take a sampling of posts on the internet? Maybe I can get it from academia, who will do the same? Or can I cut out the middlemen?

Log off and go outside. Maybe talk to people in your community.

So, every poster on the internet is a real and authentic person saying real and authentic things? Cmon, try harder.

Sample garbage and you get garbage results.

Obviously I'm not saying "every poster" is, I'm saying there's some statistical significance there.

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