bluesky’s affinity group is “people who self-selected getting off of twitter” and that’s turned out to be a pretty strong bond. most of the “echo chamber” complaints seems like whining “people on the bruce springsteen forum keep talking about bruce springsteen and not what i want to talk about”

wow boss talk dot com caught hands here

there you go. we put CARE and PERSONAL CRAFT into those flames.

'No-one has even read my column!'

I actually get quite strong "'00s Twitter" vibes from Bluesky right now. And that's a good thing; I used to actually enjoy using Twitter back then. I hope it doesn't change too significantly from hereon.

Also, it's not like Twitter was that big of a social media. Out of the big social media site, it's on the smaller side, with something around 600M users. YouTube is around 3 billion (5x).

Calling Bluesky an echo chamber implies that there is something to be gained from not shutting out the contributions of nazis and terfs, and like, yeah, no.

The trouble is, they won't shut up about Twitter. I am considering working out how to exclude those convos. Gotta say, my own decision not to bother with FB, Twitter, or similar seems to have been a surprisingly good decision in hindsight. Isolating, but a good idea nonetheless.

also i know people flamed each other on the ‘90s internet but they generally did that within communities they wanted to remain a part of, and when they hated each other, they hated each other on deeply personal level, which is different from hating people generally in a depersonalized way

God this is so real. "Why does everyone keep saying the hate Bakugo" in a group literally callED 'We Hate That Bitch Bakugo in MHA'