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As an anecdote, I switched a year or two ago along with most everyone I followed on X. It’s nothing like the vibe on old Twitter. I hate to say it, but it’s ju

As an anecdote, I switched a year or two ago along with most everyone I followed on X. It’s nothing like the vibe on old Twitter. I hate to say it, but it’s just too ideologically siloed. I’m quite left of center, but everyone on bluesky seems to be a caricature; the blue-haired loonies the right memes about. People there are seriously intolerant of anything other than their perceived orthodoxy. I don’t know what made it this way but it’s simply not usable purely by virtue of who’s there.

PaulHoule 2mo ago
A lot of people on Bluesky are pretty normal and if you make a point to block on the first bit of political NPC behavior you can find people that are interested in cat pictures and software and such.
BeetleB 2mo ago
I find it interesting that most conversations about Twitter or Bluesky is about the "political vibe". Why is that so important? On Mastodon, if someone keeps posting political stuff to the point where it's a big chunk of my feed, I merely unfollow. As a result my feed has very little politics. Can't you simply do that on Bluesky? Of course, if you actively want politics, but want just the right kind of politics, then you've dug yourself into a hole.
- aaron695 2mo ago
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jillesvangurp 2mo ago
> it’s simply not usable purely by virtue of who’s there. You are describing X here. It kind of turned into a very toxic political platform. The exodus to Threads, Mastodon, and Bluesky happened for a good reason. After Elon Musk took over it didn't exactly improve. I'm on still on X, and on Bluesky and Mastodon. For my network of perfectly normal people, most of them did not delete their X account but just aren't very active there any more. Quite a few showed up on Bluesky in the last year or so (30-40%) and some also on Mastodon (~20%). But that just leaves a long tail of random accounts I followed on Twitter that I don't really miss that much. Many of them have gone silent in any case. I actually don't mind Bluesky. I pretty much ignore algorithmic feeds and just consume content from people I happen to follow in the order it is published. If what you see is blue-haired loonies, might I suggest following less of those. Organizing people in lists is helpful as well. Mostly the people I follow are the same people I used to follow on X. Their political leanings didn't really change and they still talk about the same kinds of topics. It's just that the noise of random nut bags that I wasn't following to begin with dominating my X feed is completely gone. I don't miss that at all.
gniv 2mo ago
In terms of politics, yes. It's a bit like the worst of reddit. Nobody reads the article, everybody gets outraged in the same cliché way. If you try to provide nuance you get derided or blocked. (Blocking seems to be held in high esteem, which I think is also part of the problem.)
- conradfr 2mo ago
  Building a social network with people in love with shared blocking lists is not a great recipe.
  - krapp 2mo ago
    It's the worst recipe, apart from all the others. Unless you want to expose yourself to the constant inundation of piss that social media has become, you have to curate and block aggressively. Shared block lists that you just subscribe to are one of the few useful innovations Bluesky has made and they need to be standard for all social media in the future.
    - conradfr 2mo ago
      No thanks.
      - krapp 2mo ago
        Cool. Enjoy the golden shower then, the rest of us will be elsewhere, dry and happy.
    - gniv 2mo ago
      Blocking is way too harsh a mechanism. If they wanted to innovate they should have invented some soft-block feature. Thanks to those lists I am blocked by 165 people. I don't insult anyone, I don't even swear. I suspect I get on these lists simply by being a white male (which is I guess obvious from my posts).
      - 2mo ago
nitwit005 2mo ago
You choose what you see on Bluesky. I see little politics while using it. If everyone you followed moved over, just limit it to their posts.

PaulHoule 2mo ago

A lot of people on Bluesky are pretty normal and if you make a point to block on the first bit of political NPC behavior you can find people that are interested in cat pictures and software and such.

BeetleB 2mo ago

I find it interesting that most conversations about Twitter or Bluesky is about the "political vibe". Why is that so important? On Mastodon, if someone keeps posting political stuff to the point where it's a big chunk of my feed, I merely unfollow. As a result my feed has very little politics. Can't you simply do that on Bluesky? Of course, if you actively want politics, but want just the right kind of politics, then you've dug yourself into a hole.

aaron695 2mo ago
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jillesvangurp 2mo ago

> it’s simply not usable purely by virtue of who’s there. You are describing X here. It kind of turned into a very toxic political platform. The exodus to Threads, Mastodon, and Bluesky happened for a good reason. After Elon Musk took over it didn't exactly improve. I'm on still on X, and on Bluesky and Mastodon. For my network of perfectly normal people, most of them did not delete their X account but just aren't very active there any more. Quite a few showed up on Bluesky in the last year or so (30-40%) and some also on Mastodon (~20%). But that just leaves a long tail of random accounts I followed on Twitter that I don't really miss that much. Many of them have gone silent in any case. I actually don't mind Bluesky. I pretty much ignore algorithmic feeds and just consume content from people I happen to follow in the order it is published. If what you see is blue-haired loonies, might I suggest following less of those. Organizing people in lists is helpful as well. Mostly the people I follow are the same people I used to follow on X. Their political leanings didn't really change and they still talk about the same kinds of topics. It's just that the noise of random nut bags that I wasn't following to begin with dominating my X feed is completely gone. I don't miss that at all.

gniv 2mo ago

In terms of politics, yes. It's a bit like the worst of reddit. Nobody reads the article, everybody gets outraged in the same cliché way. If you try to provide nuance you get derided or blocked. (Blocking seems to be held in high esteem, which I think is also part of the problem.)

conradfr 2mo ago
Building a social network with people in love with shared blocking lists is not a great recipe.
- krapp 2mo ago
  It's the worst recipe, apart from all the others. Unless you want to expose yourself to the constant inundation of piss that social media has become, you have to curate and block aggressively. Shared block lists that you just subscribe to are one of the few useful innovations Bluesky has made and they need to be standard for all social media in the future.
  - conradfr 2mo ago
    No thanks.
    - krapp 2mo ago
      Cool. Enjoy the golden shower then, the rest of us will be elsewhere, dry and happy.
  - gniv 2mo ago
    Blocking is way too harsh a mechanism. If they wanted to innovate they should have invented some soft-block feature. Thanks to those lists I am blocked by 165 people. I don't insult anyone, I don't even swear. I suspect I get on these lists simply by being a white male (which is I guess obvious from my posts).
    - 2mo ago

nitwit005 2mo ago

You choose what you see on Bluesky. I see little politics while using it. If everyone you followed moved over, just limit it to their posts.