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.

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.

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.

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?