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And that block really works here... 😂

Abusers always hate it when the victim leaves

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I’m here for the independent journalists, opinions from experts, and awesome nature photography (birds especially) without having to wade through crap dumped by Nazis, bigots, bots , and trolls.

I agree and the article is well stated. I think some of the visitors have to adjust to the community first, not “walk in like they own the place.” I think more people outside of politics need to join. But people are going to talk about what is on their mind.

Worse, the absolute most garbage racist, bigots and assholes on the planet literally get paid to be racists, assholes and bigots by a fascist tech lord whose idea of free speech is “you can never ever under any circumstances publicly criticize me or my actions“.

Awesome piece, well written and articulated. Thank you

Thank you for this, great read and agree with everything said!

"...when something is supposedly dying or irrelevant, journalists can't stop writing about it." Thought this was going to be about Jake Tapper's Biden book.

Yep 👍

I like it here better then shitter

thanks ethan, makes sense your inkwell discussion when rewire came out was inspirational, why i thought to tag you here www.well.com/conf/inkwell...

That matters because Twitter used to be a "big room" and now both Twitter and BSky are smaller rooms - using terms from this essay I wrote a couple of years ago: newpublic.substack.com/p/a-social-n...

Bluesky’s strength is that we now have a place to support each other, collaborate, organize and feel actual hope! We can overcome. That is what they fear! Thank goodness for Bluesky!!!

Tradeoffs of cludgey blocklists maintained by anons are actually currently ....worth it?! Matter of time til it backfires on me I'm sure, but great they made them as easily accessible as a subscribe button

The whole “echo chamber” idea is first and foremost disingenuous. Most people talk to who they want to talk to, hang out with who they want to hang out with, read what they want to read. Thats just normal shit. Unless you’re getting paid, an adult doesn’t have to be someone’s captive audience.

I love it here... like a breath of fresh air

Reports of Bluesky's demise have been greatly exaggerated.

Joined Bluesky and immediately deleted X. I much prefer Bluesky.

There’s an obvious agenda to the criticism. A meta-agenda beyond the talk of bubbles. Bluesky people on the whole are smart and have excellent bullshit detectors. We’re better informed than the elites believed us to be. They are just now finding out and that makes us a threat to their status quo.

Everyone is making a big deal about Vance. The way I have my Bluesky set up, I would never have learned he had joined except for all the noise it generated which found its way to some of the accounts I have on my main list. I don’t use feeds. Not even the following feed. Too much chaff.

Pretty much. As others have noted, the concept of “free speech“ as it’s being pushed by our tech overlords is “minorities need to justify their existence to power structures that intend to oppress them literally forever“.

Slowly but steadily here is becoming everything I used to have on the other place that made it worth being there, before Elno Skum eff’d it up. I’m finding new people with interesting and sometimes challenging views here, but for the most part folks are civil.

Until y'all are paying me to read this shit and post dumb stuff I am gonna put up with exactly what I want to put up with and block every damn thing else

Same

For a "dying" platform, I see an awful lot of interaction here.

Thank you, Mike, for explaining this clearly, which one would think is obvious, but clearly, it's not.

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Absolute truth