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Bluesky adds 700k new users in a week

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Re: Bluesky adds 700k new users in a week

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Post by echo_mako »

bufferoverflow wrote: post #145
NoGravitas wrote: post #142

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Now it's an even worse echo chamber, but it is now one you happen to feel comfortable with.

How is it an echo chamber, when everyone is allowed to post? It's the opposite. BS is the echo-chamber by design.

There are echo chambers on twitter, reddit, here, at your local coffee shop depending on the subject. Echo chambers develop anytime a majority of people hold a similar belief on a subject and lose objectiveness. Just because "everyone" CAN post doesn't mean they are (spoiler: they aren't).

If you achieve that majority and loss of objectiveness you're very likely in an echo chamber.

Re: Bluesky adds 700k new users in a week

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Post by mardifoufs »

adzm wrote: post #4
bhouston wrote: post #2

I can attest that BlueSky is really nice right now. Feels less combative than Twitter. I started to use it 25 days ago and got 400 or so follows pretty quickly. I am here: https://bsky.app/profile/benhouston3d.bsky.social I used this tool to find accounts that match on both platforms: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/sky-follower-bridge...

Agreed, it's a really fun community. I hope it lasts

It's also one of the least diverse communities I've seen. Almost everyone is white and western, twitter is extremely diverse in comparison.

Re: Bluesky adds 700k new users in a week

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Post by duxup »

cen4 wrote: post #86
duxup wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s not like local weather guy is likely to get anyone on just his website or such these days.

So the current dynamic is - platforms use noise makers to draw in crowds, then signal producers like the weather guy go where the crowds are. Does Bluesky change this dynamic?

I do not know. But I know the dynamic of local weather guy with his own site is likely not a winning play.

Re: Bluesky adds 700k new users in a week

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Post by stiltzkin »

theasisa wrote: post #138
bhouston wrote: post #2

I can attest that BlueSky is really nice right now. Feels less combative than Twitter. I started to use it 25 days ago and got 400 or so follows pretty quickly. I am here: https://bsky.app/profile/benhouston3d.bsky.social I used this tool to find accounts that match on both platforms: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/sky-follower-bridge...

I used Twitter mainly to follow fellow devs, industry leaders and InfoSec people. But after Elon made changes my timeline started to fill with politics and culture wars and it ended up missing me less informed and more angry. Maybe that is the future for BlueSky as well, but at the moment I am enjoying it and more people I followed on Twitter are making the move.

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Re: Bluesky adds 700k new users in a week

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Post by consteval »

bufferoverflow wrote: post #145
NoGravitas wrote: post #142

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Now it's an even worse echo chamber, but it is now one you happen to feel comfortable with.

How is it an echo chamber, when everyone is allowed to post? It's the opposite. BS is the echo-chamber by design.

It's an echo chamber because people who pay have a significantly louder voice. The only people who pay are avid musk supporters, who tend to be of a certain ideology. So those people are at the top of replies, creating an echo chamber. In addition, many people who oppose musk's ideology have left the platform, further creating an echo chamber.

Re: Bluesky adds 700k new users in a week

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Post by timlimfimbim »

tfandango wrote: post #146
philistine wrote: post #137

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Tolerating intolerance is completely unacceptable. How can you justify accepting and tolerating someone who’s point of view is I think you should have less rights than me .

This is called the Paradox of Tolerance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance Essentially you should be tolerant of others, unless they themselves are intolerant.

ie "tolerance is a peace treaty, not a suicide pact"

Re: Bluesky adds 700k new users in a week

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Post by consteval »

threeseed wrote: post #50
minimaxir wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Threads has become worse over time due to a series of anti-user policy decisions (no news/politics) and a very weird Discover algorithm that strongly incentivizes clickbait (and said feed is the default on the app and cannot be changed)

a) Given what happened with X during the election, Meta unquestionably made the right call with Threads. If you want news/politics then simply follow your desired journalists. But forcing it on people who don't want it is not making the world better. It's just allowing bad actors a clear vector on how to make it worse. b) You can switch to the chronological feed which is much better. But as you say you can't make it…

> If you want news/politics

The problem is that the right has largely moved politics into a cultural space. When you can't talk about being trans or being gay is that really politics? Self-identity isn't a political position, but it has been forced to be one, as those people are under constant attack.

In addition, they're the "out group", so they will actually be targeted. Certainly, nobody cares if you post your girlfriend, but if you post your boyfriend now it has become political.

Such rules aren't equal.

It's become a meme, but there's some truth to it. There're two genders, man and political. There're two sexual orientations, straight and political. There're two races, white and political.

Re: Bluesky adds 700k new users in a week

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Post by tmottabr »

cen4 wrote: post #86
duxup wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s not like local weather guy is likely to get anyone on just his website or such these days.

So the current dynamic is - platforms use noise makers to draw in crowds, then signal producers like the weather guy go where the crowds are. Does Bluesky change this dynamic?

if only there was some kind of tool that allow producers to cross post to multiple social medias at once..
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