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I'm pretty left leaning and I don't like Bluesky. For me, it's too hostile and too much of an angry echo chamber. X is scattered wildly but I with muting I have

I'm pretty left leaning and I don't like Bluesky. For me, it's too hostile and too much of an angry echo chamber. X is scattered wildly but I with muting I have been able to shape to get a more reasonable feed.

ChocolateGod 2y ago
Likewise here, the amount of just pure made up crap/misinformation on X has definitely increased (perhaps because accounts get paid for views/engagement now) or the algorithm seems to push it more, but it's not an echo chamber. I have at least 100 words on my X muted word list and it's just about usable.
nailer 2y ago
Same here. I'd agree with many of the political positions on Bluesky but it looks like the left equivalent of what Truth Social is on the right - Bluesky recently started publishing home addresses of DOGE employees, with the intent seeming to be to target them with violence.
- 9283409232 2y ago
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_bin_ 2y ago
As is the case with most ideological echo chambers, they devolve into struggle sessions. You find the same thing happening in the niche right-wing movement sections of twitter, it's just "this person is secretly indian/jewish" instead of "this person is secretly a racist/xyzphobe". Twitter has the advantage of a broader range so you can escape that while bluesky is almost exclusively used based on strong ideological motivation. It's raison d'etre at this point is basically and highly political so this was bound to happen.
jghn 2y ago
I don't understand why people struggle with either site. Follow only people you want to see. Both sites allow you to only see posts from those accounts. Problem solved.
- spiderice 2y ago
  Unless you want to follow Adobe, who were just driven out by a mob of angry people
  - rchaud 2y ago
    Our deepest condolences. Losing a marketing bullhorn is always difficult.
    - spiderice 2y ago
      Ok I guess I'll simplify the point for you: You can't follow the "people you want to see" if the platform is so hostile that the people you want to see are driven from it. My comment wasn't just about Adobe
    - sph 1y ago
      Being intolerant of soulless rent-seeking corporations doesn’t turn you into a cool person. It just shows you are intolerant. There must be a name for the phenomenon when a minority escapes persecution and hate, and upon reaching their promised land become intolerant and hateful of any outside group.
      - chownie 1y ago
        Nah, it makes gp cool as fuck actually.
  - jghn 2y ago
    There are a lot of people I'd love to see content from on all of the platforms who aren't where I want them to be, for a variety of reasons. That's not really a great argument.
    - jacobgkau 2y ago
      The argument is that this is now part of that list of reasons. Why acknowledge a problem but disregard one of the causes?
lukev 2y ago
This is a weird argument because Bluesky doesn't have a "feed"... by default you see only the people you follow unless you subscribe to specific other feeds. So you followed a bunch of people you didn't like? That says more about you than the platform...
- vitorgrs 2y ago
  There is a Discovery feed by default for sure.
- gs17 1y ago
  There's a default feed, and it's awful. Part of why I gave up on the site, it never seemed to "get" me, their features for tuning it don't work, and the alternative feeds weren't what I wanted at all.
- alpaca128 1y ago
  If there's no feed there is no way to see any posts of people you might want to follow. So I highly doubt there isn't any feed. YouTube did this for a while, up until a few months ago if you weren't logged in you'd literally just get an empty page and a search bar at the top as it wouldn't recommend any videos at all. That was temporary for a reason.
piyuv 2y ago
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karn97 2y ago
I got an extension to hide every blue check user, twitter is wonderful nkw
sph 1y ago
X is a cesspit. Bluesky is a cult and echo chamber. Both should be avoided if you care about your mental sanity. Social media was a catastrophic mistake.

ChocolateGod 2y ago

Likewise here, the amount of just pure made up crap/misinformation on X has definitely increased (perhaps because accounts get paid for views/engagement now) or the algorithm seems to push it more, but it's not an echo chamber. I have at least 100 words on my X muted word list and it's just about usable.

nailer 2y ago

Same here. I'd agree with many of the political positions on Bluesky but it looks like the left equivalent of what Truth Social is on the right - Bluesky recently started publishing home addresses of DOGE employees, with the intent seeming to be to target them with violence.

9283409232 2y ago
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_bin_ 2y ago

As is the case with most ideological echo chambers, they devolve into struggle sessions. You find the same thing happening in the niche right-wing movement sections of twitter, it's just "this person is secretly indian/jewish" instead of "this person is secretly a racist/xyzphobe". Twitter has the advantage of a broader range so you can escape that while bluesky is almost exclusively used based on strong ideological motivation. It's raison d'etre at this point is basically and highly political so this was bound to happen.

jghn 2y ago

I don't understand why people struggle with either site. Follow only people you want to see. Both sites allow you to only see posts from those accounts. Problem solved.

spiderice 2y ago
Unless you want to follow Adobe, who were just driven out by a mob of angry people
- rchaud 2y ago
  Our deepest condolences. Losing a marketing bullhorn is always difficult.
  - spiderice 2y ago
    Ok I guess I'll simplify the point for you: You can't follow the "people you want to see" if the platform is so hostile that the people you want to see are driven from it. My comment wasn't just about Adobe
  - sph 1y ago
    Being intolerant of soulless rent-seeking corporations doesn’t turn you into a cool person. It just shows you are intolerant. There must be a name for the phenomenon when a minority escapes persecution and hate, and upon reaching their promised land become intolerant and hateful of any outside group.
    - chownie 1y ago
      Nah, it makes gp cool as fuck actually.
- jghn 2y ago
  There are a lot of people I'd love to see content from on all of the platforms who aren't where I want them to be, for a variety of reasons. That's not really a great argument.
  - jacobgkau 2y ago
    The argument is that this is now part of that list of reasons. Why acknowledge a problem but disregard one of the causes?

lukev 2y ago

This is a weird argument because Bluesky doesn't have a "feed"... by default you see only the people you follow unless you subscribe to specific other feeds. So you followed a bunch of people you didn't like? That says more about you than the platform...

vitorgrs 2y ago
There is a Discovery feed by default for sure.
gs17 1y ago
There's a default feed, and it's awful. Part of why I gave up on the site, it never seemed to "get" me, their features for tuning it don't work, and the alternative feeds weren't what I wanted at all.
alpaca128 1y ago
If there's no feed there is no way to see any posts of people you might want to follow. So I highly doubt there isn't any feed. YouTube did this for a while, up until a few months ago if you weren't logged in you'd literally just get an empty page and a search bar at the top as it wouldn't recommend any videos at all. That was temporary for a reason.

piyuv 2y ago

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karn97 2y ago

I got an extension to hide every blue check user, twitter is wonderful nkw

sph 1y ago

X is a cesspit. Bluesky is a cult and echo chamber. Both should be avoided if you care about your mental sanity. Social media was a catastrophic mistake.