>A bad narrative is hard to shake, even if it’s unfair.
It's objectively fair. Bluesky is heavily dominated by US democrat politics and nothing else.
>Yet, based on how commentators are writing about it at the moment, you’d never know that there are lots of thriving communities there.
By what metrics do you measure this? perhaps is why you seem to be on your own and are upset at all the others worried about the decline.
>Bluesky has grown significantly over the last year, though its daily active users are perhaps not what they were at the beginning of the year.
So its declining is what you're saying? But your entire article is 'ignore the haters'
>You would not believe the number of hot takes out there about this discussion point, many frustrated with the overtly political tone of the network, some complaining about a lack of “ideological diversity,” whatever that means.
You know what that means. You're being dismissive of their complaints for what reason?
bigyabai•7mo ago
I don't use Bluesky at all, but the author's point stands. The politicization of social media is making people realize the inherent liberal bias of the internet. An average day reading X is like following Fox News retractions in-media-res, it's starting to look like you can't take the public opinion for granted without looking like Simple Jack.
Personally I think Bluesky is headed for the toilet in much the same way X is. Both are neo-reactionary platforms with no appeal to people with interests outside the hilariously pitiful American political zeitgeist.
PaulHoule•7mo ago
I post photos to Bluesky as well as stuff similar to what I post to HN. I know there are a lot of rabid capital-D Democrats there, but the recommender mostly keeps them out of my feed except for the first two weeks of the 2nd Trump admin when I think they were trying to help journalists/influencers leaving X to get an audience fast and make them a permission structure to move.
There are a lot of people there who aren't posting 20 posts a day about the latest outrage.
kgwxd•7mo ago
>lack of “ideological diversity,” whatever that means.
> You know what that means. You're being dismissive of their complaints for what reason?
All social feeds are going to end up leaning "left" where users get to vote without heavy algorithmic/moderator manipulation. It's only considered "unfair" by people that have to trick other people into liking them, and scream over everyone to "be heard" because they've quickly proven themselves the human equivalent of an AI spam bot trained on FUD, hate, and zealousness.
Those demonstrably opposed to all forms of diversity do not get to hide behind "diversity". They just suck, and no one wants to listen, or talk, to them, except other people exactly like them. It's not a paradox, it's not hypocrisy, it's just decent people avoiding interacting with miserable people as best they can.
I used Bluesky at the beginning of the year, just to check how it has progressed after initial launch. I was easily able to keep a feed with nearly 0 political content by building my "Follow" list organically.
If I felt like jumping on a bandwagon, I'd click the Discover feed or trending topic. Before leaving, I blocked those elements with uBO just to see how it felt. It was exactly as I dreamed, a feed solely of my own design without any distractions. Bluesky should completely hide those feeds by default. They should just remove them entirely IMO, but 1 step at a time. Let people find each other in natural ways, void of any algorithm. Just provide the platform to manage their custom-built lists and how other people can interact with them through it.
incomingpain•7mo ago
It's objectively fair. Bluesky is heavily dominated by US democrat politics and nothing else.
>Yet, based on how commentators are writing about it at the moment, you’d never know that there are lots of thriving communities there.
By what metrics do you measure this? perhaps is why you seem to be on your own and are upset at all the others worried about the decline.
>Bluesky has grown significantly over the last year, though its daily active users are perhaps not what they were at the beginning of the year.
So its declining is what you're saying? But your entire article is 'ignore the haters'
>You would not believe the number of hot takes out there about this discussion point, many frustrated with the overtly political tone of the network, some complaining about a lack of “ideological diversity,” whatever that means.
You know what that means. You're being dismissive of their complaints for what reason?
bigyabai•7mo ago
Personally I think Bluesky is headed for the toilet in much the same way X is. Both are neo-reactionary platforms with no appeal to people with interests outside the hilariously pitiful American political zeitgeist.
PaulHoule•7mo ago
There are a lot of people there who aren't posting 20 posts a day about the latest outrage.
kgwxd•7mo ago
> You know what that means. You're being dismissive of their complaints for what reason?
All social feeds are going to end up leaning "left" where users get to vote without heavy algorithmic/moderator manipulation. It's only considered "unfair" by people that have to trick other people into liking them, and scream over everyone to "be heard" because they've quickly proven themselves the human equivalent of an AI spam bot trained on FUD, hate, and zealousness.
Those demonstrably opposed to all forms of diversity do not get to hide behind "diversity". They just suck, and no one wants to listen, or talk, to them, except other people exactly like them. It's not a paradox, it's not hypocrisy, it's just decent people avoiding interacting with miserable people as best they can.
I used Bluesky at the beginning of the year, just to check how it has progressed after initial launch. I was easily able to keep a feed with nearly 0 political content by building my "Follow" list organically.
If I felt like jumping on a bandwagon, I'd click the Discover feed or trending topic. Before leaving, I blocked those elements with uBO just to see how it felt. It was exactly as I dreamed, a feed solely of my own design without any distractions. Bluesky should completely hide those feeds by default. They should just remove them entirely IMO, but 1 step at a time. Let people find each other in natural ways, void of any algorithm. Just provide the platform to manage their custom-built lists and how other people can interact with them through it.