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My concerns with Bluesky are less technical and more about the type of community it will have. Nearly all large internet communities have become partisan echo
by _mlbt 2y ago
My concerns with Bluesky are less technical and more about the type of community it will have. Nearly all large internet communities have become partisan echo chambers. My concern with Bluesky is that at this point it seems to be mostly a refuge for leftist Twitter/X refugees.
I wish there was a major platform with diversity of thought. Echo chambers are terrible for thoughtful discussion. If anyone knows of a community where moderates or a relatively balanced mix of liberal and conservative thinkers hang out online I'd love to hear about it.
- sigmar 2y agoI haven't used bluesky, but can't you just go to different sites/forums for discussions with different people? This seems to me like complaining about a lack of oil painters on hackernews, when deviantart is just a few clicks away
- _mlbt 2y agoVigorous discussion between different viewpoints is completely different than multiple polar opposite echo chambers. Take reddit for example, you have /r/politics that downvotes, deletes, and shadow bans all conservative voices out of existence, and /r/conservative that does the same thing for liberal voices. I'd like a place where thoughtful discussion of all viewpoints, left, right, and center are not just tolerated, but encouraged.
- sigmar 2y agoYou really can't find people with different views arguing on reddit? Seems like arguing is like 99% of the comments there. If you don't like /r/politics, there's alternative subreddits specifically built for political debate. Like r/changemyview
- _mlbt 2y agoInteresting, thank you, I wasn't aware of /r/changemyview! From a cursory glance that looks pretty close to what I'm looking for.
- jazzyjackson 2y agoNo it's kind of all one global feed right now. There's different "curated" lists of users you can follow and "super clusters" of tight knit interest groups like "swifties" and "kpop" but basically they're still plugging in moderation so admin has had to ban accounts that were trolling the lefties, has left it with a bit of a monoculture IMO It's technically ready to federate but there aren't any other services that make it easy to create an account: you can self host your identity which is good and then select your own moderation services to follow but as to "who's on bluesky" its a certain type of person.