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I 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

• _mlbt 2y ago
  Vigorous 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 ago
    You 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 ago
      Interesting, 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 ago
  No 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.