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I disagree. Moderation is like culture. Twitter's moderation has gone to complete junk in the past couple of years. Bluesky and Mastodon don't have that problem (yet, or possibly ever). In your analogy - moderation is part of the format.
Okay, let's check back in ten years.
The problem is that you are creating an echo chamber. My experience using let’s quit “insert company name” is that these echo chambers tend to be toxic and terrible. IE.. Gab, Truth Social, etc. It’s very difficult to do unless you can have broad consensus. I tend to use Twitter for an industry wide group and while a few individuals have moved, the Bluesky version just doesn’t have the reach or usefulness of the twit…
Twitter is already, and increasingly so, an echo chamber of the type of people who want to stay on Twitter. From that vantage point it is the conscious decision to stay on the network during an exodus that creates an echo chamber. Something similar happened with facebook. The people who are still on facebook in 2025 are having a pretty different conversation than occurs in some other places.
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Curious: what happens when Bluesky has all the same people/posts as Twitter? Will it be any better? Or will it just be the same thing on a new website?
It won't. BlueSky is heavily censored.
When a MAGA civil war broke out on there around Christmas last year, accounts that opposed Elon were either disabled or lost their verified status.
You also can’t share links without their feed algorithm limiting your reach.
All social networks are censored in some form.
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Is there a personal reason you have to keep with it at all at that level? Not doubting you do, but I feel like people are generally addicted to keeping up with shit that affects their emotions and really doesn't need to.
> but I feel like people are generally addicted to keeping up with shit that affects their emotions and really doesn't need to. Wow delving deep into people's psyche and calling them out on HN, why ?
Saying I'm calling someone out though seems a bit of a reach.
Anecdotal, but so many people in my circles have jumped ship to Bluesky that the transition is pretty seamless at this point. It feels more like Twitter than what became of Twitter does.
Curious: what happens when Bluesky has all the same people/posts as Twitter? Will it be any better? Or will it just be the same thing on a new website?
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You can't post like this here and I've banned the account. If it were just one comment, I'd post a warning instead, but your comment history is replete with ideological battle and personal attacks. Not cool. Please don't create accounts to break HN's rules with. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I don't understand the obsession with hating on X/Musk right now. He has his opinions, but X is still a great platform, and last I checked, Mastodon and Bluesky still feel like echo chambers (and the latter has a lot of... furry content). In the quiet, it feels like the media moved from hating Trump to hating Musk, and people are now obsessing over amplifying that message. But for what gain? It all kind of reminds me…
I am a conservative but I can't imagine how anyone is not tired of Musk at this point. Not 1984 but just standard 20th century type dangerous cult of personality with one person having way too much power.
bluesky and other echochambers are not the solution to censorship. bluesky is the left to the x right. both serving different masters. The solution is true mesh network with financial incentive to "host" the content. Imagine kinda of like bittorrent seeding where the longer you seed the more you "mine crypto". I'm too dumb to build such a thing, but that is the solution. A true peer to peer network where all content…
you've given the left pov, but it's not accurate.
twitter was neutral, then twitter "went left" by censoring the right.
then musk bought twitter (renamed it X) and stopped censoring the right but did not censor the left; but a certain type of left person can't tolerate the right not being censored so they left first to the fediverse and now to bluesky
X is open to all; bluesky is a population of people who are not open to all
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It won't. BlueSky is heavily censored.
So is X. When a MAGA civil war broke out on there around Christmas last year, accounts that opposed Elon were either disabled or lost their verified status. You also can’t share links without their feed algorithm limiting your reach. All social networks are censored in some form.
Your attempt at gaslighting is pathetic.