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Maybe it’s fine if you treat Bluesky as a way to follow just a few trusted people. But that could also be an echo chamber. I was surprised, however, by how many

Maybe it’s fine if you treat Bluesky as a way to follow just a few trusted people. But that could also be an echo chamber. I was surprised, however, by how many vile comments I saw regarding Charlie Kirk’s death. To me as an outsider to its culture, it looks just like Reddit. So “sectarian” feels right.

deeg 1y ago
I use blue sky exclusively over Twitter and in my experience the condolences about kirks death out numbered the vile posts at least 10 to 1. In general the worst I saw were posts lamenting his death by violence while also noting his bigotry and love for guns.
bediger4000 1y ago
I had a very different experience - I saw very few gloating comments, and those were vastly outweighed by comments saying we don't know, nobody deserves this, violence isn't the answer, political violence spirals. About the worst I saw were, in essence, saying this is bad, but those who live by the sword, die by the sword, which is a biblical thing. Why is Bluesky an echo chamber but X, Rumble, Gab, Gettr are not? I bet there's huge vile "damn leftists" commentary there, even though we don't know who shot Kirk or why. Why isn't that an echo chamber?
- SilverElfin 1y ago
  > Why is Bluesky an echo chamber but X, Rumble, Gab, Gettr are not? I bet there's huge vile "damn leftists" commentary there, even though we don't know who shot Kirk or why. Why isn't that an echo chamber? I have not even heard of some of those. So I am not saying that they aren’t echo chambers either. But given the reputation for civil discourse that blue sky has, I was surprised to see a lot of comments that were saying disgusting things in thinly coded ways.
  - bediger4000 1y ago
    Why is your experience better than mine? I didn't see those things.
    - SilverElfin 1y ago
      I didn’t say it was?
tracker1 1y ago
I didn't care much for it as it seemed that anything other than a left-leaning anti-american view was complexly absent and unwelcome. I kind of miss the google circles thing... it was much easier to separate technical or career vs personal vs political.

deeg 1y ago

I use blue sky exclusively over Twitter and in my experience the condolences about kirks death out numbered the vile posts at least 10 to 1. In general the worst I saw were posts lamenting his death by violence while also noting his bigotry and love for guns.

bediger4000 1y ago

I had a very different experience - I saw very few gloating comments, and those were vastly outweighed by comments saying we don't know, nobody deserves this, violence isn't the answer, political violence spirals. About the worst I saw were, in essence, saying this is bad, but those who live by the sword, die by the sword, which is a biblical thing. Why is Bluesky an echo chamber but X, Rumble, Gab, Gettr are not? I bet there's huge vile "damn leftists" commentary there, even though we don't know who shot Kirk or why. Why isn't that an echo chamber?

SilverElfin 1y ago
> Why is Bluesky an echo chamber but X, Rumble, Gab, Gettr are not? I bet there's huge vile "damn leftists" commentary there, even though we don't know who shot Kirk or why. Why isn't that an echo chamber? I have not even heard of some of those. So I am not saying that they aren’t echo chambers either. But given the reputation for civil discourse that blue sky has, I was surprised to see a lot of comments that were saying disgusting things in thinly coded ways.
- bediger4000 1y ago
  Why is your experience better than mine? I didn't see those things.
  - SilverElfin 1y ago
    I didn’t say it was?

tracker1 1y ago

I didn't care much for it as it seemed that anything other than a left-leaning anti-american view was complexly absent and unwelcome. I kind of miss the google circles thing... it was much easier to separate technical or career vs personal vs political.