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| ▲ | red_admiral 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | To riff of an old political joke: X is for the evil party, bluesky is for the stupid party. | |
| ▲ | Defletter 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Bluesky is pretty decent and has features that I like over X, but much of its user base are from the Great Xodus (pardon the pun): people who frame their switch to Bluesky as some kind of boycott of X, ie, a bunch of moralists. They didn't leave X because it's a hellscape of trashing and toxicity, no, they left because the politics changed. And so Bluesky is now saturated with people who are very opinionated, very loud about it, and very willing to engage in trashing. | | |
| ▲ | idiotsecant an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | Yes, bluesky is absolutely saturated with people who are loud and opinionated and willing to engage in trashing. Entirely different than twitter, in that respect. | | |
| ▲ | Defletter 15 minutes ago | parent [-] | | Nah, Twitter is still absolutely rotten with toxicity. The Great Xodus happened due to the rapid chuddification of Twitter under its new management: it was over politics, not toxicity. As such they brought the toxicity with them like a plague. Bluesky has this nice feature where you can mute lists, so someone made a MAGA list (https://bsky.app/profile/skywatch.blue/lists/3l53cjwlt4o2s), and yet I was still seeing MAGA stuff on my feed because all the Twitter refugees were screenshotting Twitter nonsense and laundering it into my feed. Utterly ridiculous. |
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| ▲ | gnuplustoejam 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Exile usually connotes being forced out from a place. The distinction is important because no one asked them to leave. | | |
| ▲ | Defletter 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | I originally had "self exiles" but thought the Xile pun was funnier :P | | |
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