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It’s performative. Not real
by artursapek 2y ago
It’s performative. Not real
- Zambyte 2y agoNo it isn't. I have plans to meet people I originally connected with on Bluesky in person. I have received physical mail from people on the other side of the world that I connected with on Bluesky. I connected a person I met on their with my mother due to related personal struggles. Making this claim is really weird when you don't know anything about me or my friends.
- YurgenJurgensen 2y agoI think it’s notable that your examples of people caring on Bluesky all involve moving to a channel other than Bluesky. Surely if the emotional connection were real, you wouldn’t need to move off social media to facilitate it?
- Zambyte 2y agoWhat? If the connection was real, why would I limit it to a public digital timeline? That seems like that would be performative. Kinda over picking apart my relationship with people on Bluesky. Just wanted to share that I have been really enjoying it.
- Ar-Curunir 2y agoWhat a sad mindset.
- nathan_compton 2y agoThis is one of the weirder contemporary "anti-woke" takes. For one thing, that which is performative can easily also be genuine, and quite arguably if one feels genuine about something then one ought to perform it, hopefully in a way that makes it attractive to other people. But on the subject of whether things are genuine or not, I see lots of actual, cash on the table, give money, mutual aid in these communities. I could understand performance as being artificial, but if someone is dropping cash to help a person out of a bad situation, that seems a pretty good definition of authentic to me. In any case, "it's performative" simply does not imply it is not also real.