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0 pointshashstring11mo ago0 comments

Being on both until recently, BlueSky feels less like an echo chamber than X to me.

Censorship is a negative frame when it also provides healthy platform moderation and safety.

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Maybe BlueSky has changed since last I looked, but it used to very progressive activist politically. On Twitter I can see right wing, centrist and left wing commentary.

raincole11mo ago

BlueSky is never a counterpart of Twitter. It's closer to that of SocialTruth.

I think even the default subs on Reddit are far less progressive than BlueSky.

hashstringOP11mo ago

Are you talking Twitter or X? X is in many ways much closer to TruthSocial than any other platform currently is [1] [2]. The only thing that grounds X a bit is the (old) Twitter user base that’s still on there, which is and has been declining.

It’s also interesting that your view of progressive might be different than mine. In this current age, I guess even advocates for DEI are considered too “progressive”. Which (in my opinion) relates more to a shift of right to far right, which shifts the balance, and people mistake it for what are really just centric viewpoints being “leftist”.

To me, BlueSky is the best current alternative to what Twitter originally was.

[1] https://www.npr.org/2024/10/22/nx-s1-5156184/elon-musk-trump... [2] https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/elon-musk-turned-x...

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hashstringOP11mo ago

Yeah, I’d consider checking in again. In the very beginning, some viewpoints used to be more dominantly represented than now, as many new people have joined BlueSky from X since.

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concordDance11mo ago

Maybe BlueSky has changed since last I looked, but it used to very progressive activist politically. On Twitter I can see right wing, centrist and left wing commentary.

raincole11mo ago

BlueSky is never a counterpart of Twitter. It's closer to that of SocialTruth.

I think even the default subs on Reddit are far less progressive than BlueSky.

hashstringOP11mo ago

To me, BlueSky is the best current alternative to what Twitter originally was.

[1] https://www.npr.org/2024/10/22/nx-s1-5156184/elon-musk-trump... [2] https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/elon-musk-turned-x...

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hashstringOP11mo ago

Yeah, I’d consider checking in again. In the very beginning, some viewpoints used to be more dominantly represented than now, as many new people have joined BlueSky from X since.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse