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What are they looking for? Anything-goes anarchy? This idea that any kind of centralized direction or authority is evil just leads to a chaotic mess.
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That's... not how people familiar with BlueSky would describe it. I would say it's where the people who realized that Twitter wasn't going to recover fled in search of as similar an experience as possible, and mostly got it, right down to a centralized moderation system that is being co-opted to the operating company's desires.
All you've done is take the description I provided and packed all the politics into the word "recover".
If I was a landlord, I'd make a list of political terms, and use a simple SQL regex to shadowban all accounts that have any of those terms in their bios. That's probably the only way to fix social media. Sometimes I wish I was a landlord just to try and do this.
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Agree. I have heard BlueSky described as a kind of self-made ghetto for the most terminally online, left-wing remnants of pre-Elon Twitter. If that's true then it suggests some shape to the distribution of possible dustups, but I spend no time there (or on X, or Mastodon) I don't really know for sure.
That's... not how people familiar with BlueSky would describe it. I would say it's where the people who realized that Twitter wasn't going to recover fled in search of as similar an experience as possible, and mostly got it, right down to a centralized moderation system that is being co-opted to the operating company's desires.
I remember the opposite thing, politically, happening when Reddit clamped down on a number of rightwing -isms (and -philias) and then a site called Voat got created as the “free speech” alternative, except it only attracted the right wingers who saw the -isms as their core beliefs, and so the whole site was just that. Eventually Voat shut down, having failed to bring enough new to the table to attract regular, fairly politically indifferent folks