This is what I was wondering yesterday when I asked this.
Is this by design? Does bluesky want these little bubbles that don't interact? Is their userbase demographic also by design? Did they reach out to the 'Left Twitter 2015' -type activist social media movers and shakers? It's going swimmingly from their perspective? Or do they see problems here?
Would love to know what #bluesky says behind closed door. Ahem jack ahem.
They should just use the fediverse. They do this well. I donβt get the point of bluesky.
I'm too thicc to understand the difference between AtProtocol and fediverse tbh
#thicchain
But they do seem similar culturally
Seems like the point of bluesky became finishing what they started. Even though by the time they finished, better solutions had emerged.
Bluesky recently hit 2 million users iirc. Fediverse supposedly is over 20 M total accounts... Twitter well over 200 M MAU...
I suspect that Bluesky will atrophy into nothingness before too long.
They have built a mechanic that, when someone corrects your lie in a comment, you can say, "whoa. I can't let any of my followers see this correction of my lie. I'm going to block them."
You have to think it's done on purpose to maintain the power of propagandists. Because truth seekers would allow dissenting voices to interact with them and support the corrections.
I suspect it may be a bit more banal. My suspicion is that it is positioning itself (p much identically to fediverse, like will said) in opposition to the free-for-all of twitter. With the assumption that maybe people should be kept apart along ideological grounds or the meme political compass grounds, that this would be healthy and friendly (and yes create 'safe spaces').
I don't think they anticipated just how much in-fighting there is, especially on the left. Probably the most famous example are TERFs who are traditionally on the left, or another famous example some of the left cancelling zizek for his stance on immigration. But it's this with every decreasing bubbles, with no difference tolerated. I imean it's not even about tolerance, these mute lists will automate the whole process, and even by associations lol. How small can these bubbles get and is it worth having?
Maybe they're right tho, maybe this is the only way to do it. I would like to think not. It might be the only way to do it for this v particular personality - Left Twitter 2015 nostalgia user. Β―β \β _β (β γβ )β _β /β Β―
In the end, the result will be the same:
Intolerance of any dissent or disagreement.
I'm sort of curious to see if it works tho lol.
What will these bubbles be.
Furries, who are pro-controlled immigration, but against sex work, who tolerate sarcasm, agnostic but atheists not welcome, pescatarian only..
...If you are all these things but a flexitarian, you then need to start your own bubble.
Rules are rules.
Perfect curation; perfect conformity. Perfect memoryholing.
Repulsive.
IMO, yes. BlueSky very clearly draws its userbase from ex-Twitterati that want the old, pre-Elon twitter with the well known conformity of aristocratic "woke" opinion and a tighter ability to 'curate the feed', iow - no humor and no challenges to opinion.
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