I believe that a substantial challenge with modern pundit discourse is that every pundit with any meaningful reach can now go online and see a whole bunch of people calling them big dumb idiots on any given day. Even if the vast majority of discourse is fine it feels absolutely horrible to open up twitter or bluesky or whatever and have a whole bunch of DMs calling you an asshole.

I think this drives people like Nate Silver to overreact and draw big conclusions about platforms and political ideologies and put out content like this.

Some people are annoying on social media. If the platform structurally focuses you on a group of annoying people it'll look like everybody on that platform is annoying. But I'd hope that somebody who got famous for data analysis could do a better job with this. The bluesky firehose is there. AI tools make mass sentiment analysis easier to perform than ever. We could have a real analysis of "blueskyism" but instead we get a bunch of gripes from a person who sees a tiny portion of the website yell at him every time he opens the site.