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Judging from the replies, an astounding number of people still cannot grasp that "taking all the prominent liberal and progressive voices and putting them on a remote island where no ordinary people or institutions interact with them will reduce the political influence of liberals and progressives"

I don’t think people disagree with that so much as people disagree with the implication that keeping them in the torture chamber of X (where, let’s be clear, due to algorithm changes they no longer had any real influence anyway) would somehow have been better for anyone involved

As with every single time I've made this claim, people are reading that implication into it.

I think it’s natural to read that claim when someone specifically calls the lifeboat “a net negative” instead of using that label for the iceberg

Like I have sympathy but the wording of the original post is very much calling Bluesky the problem

Bluesky is part of the problem. I say that as someone who doesn't even post on Twitter.

The solipsism of this site is very real, people here aren't just exiled, they've convinced themselves the rest of the discursive universe doesn't matter anyway.

I agree with you to the extent that people do need to be aware that we are not representative of the larger even majority, much less the populace and should not get lulled into the sense we will be ok. This happened here before the 2024 election for sure..