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I pretty much haven't heard of Bluesky since it went public. Is it still a mostly cesspool of american politics-obsessed twitter refugees?

• 7573sgfj 2y ago
  pretty much, the same rational and objective (and fact based!) political views you can read on hn
• CaptainOfCoit 2y ago
  > Is it still a mostly cesspool of american politics-obsessed twitter refugees? 99% of social media on the English-speaking web is basically American politics obsessed, if you don't want that you need to branch out to other languages.
  • bishbosh 2y ago
    Are they politics obsessed in other politics, or is that particular to Americans?
    • Nextgrid 2y ago
      Unfortunately the garbage is spreading. It's less due to politics and more due to the rotten business models of all mainstream social media - it encourages engagement (algorithmically, so it doesn't even need human intention/decisions), it just turns out that political content is great at generating engagement and thus it floats to the top. Various actors take advantage of this for various reasons (including political motivations) but the underlying problem is that the platform itself will promote any content as long as it generates engagement.
• matsemann 2y ago
  My experience is that it's the opposite. My twitter timeline got filled up with blue checkmarks spamming their things. Their comments are boosted in every discussion. And since it's a certain demographic that pays for twitter blue, it completely altered everything. So at least in my circles it's to get away from all the hate and outrage that was just to gain virality, and get back to actual discussions on the topics we care about (which is far from US politics).