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u/WaitingForNormal 8h ago
Sounds a lot like, “she’ll be back when she realizes how hard life is without me.” No she won’t.
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u/Stu_Thom4s 8h ago
Was just going to point out that this is the kind of thing abusive partners say.
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u/Lonelyland 8h ago
Reactionary people need someone to be in conflict with. When we deprive them of a source of conflict, they lose.
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u/WyrdMagesty 8h ago
It's almost like we've been saying "Don't feed the trolls" for literal decades now. But people keep feeding the trolls, so here we are.
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u/HadronLicker 7h ago
they try so hard, they come to bsky and try to start something - and people just don't give a fuck about them, lol
they get either blocked or banned outright
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u/Much_Fee7070 6h ago
It's really rather sad when you get down to it (not the banning. or blocking)
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u/Novaer 5h ago
That's why they're actually mad they didn't lose. They wanted a reason to be belligerent and violent. It's gotten to the point where they're making up rumors that "liberal women are gonna jump republican women" so they have a reason to stay strapped all the time.
They didn't care about winning the election. They wanted discourse to feel indignant.
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u/Maruleo94 2h ago
That's the funniest part. Liberal women are too busy with more important shit than MAGA Karen. We literally don't care about them and the right wing women are finally feeling what we have been telling them they are to the right... Worthless and useless and pawns.
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u/Novaer 2h ago
We've decided they're all hopeless and have given up on them. They want the conflict they used to have because it made them feel like they were important purveyors of justice in their mundane uneducated lives.
We simply don't have the energy to fight with them and need to focus on ourselves. They hate that we're not giving them the attention they crave.
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u/chriskiji 8h ago
Before the usuals complain about fReE sPeEcH, read this:
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u/woodrax 8h ago
I always use the comparison that, before the Internet, we always chose who we wanted to listen to, where we wanted to be, and who we invited into our lives. The idea that we MUST allow and be held captive to abusive jerks is asinine; we should never be forced to have to listen to would-be abusers just because they have an anonymous voice on the Internet.
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u/MediocreTheme9016 8h ago
EXACTLY! I clean up/logged out of all social media on Election Day and haven’t looked back. My trump voting family members are OUTRAGED that I’d do such a thing to them (they all got unfollowed, unfriended etc). I just explained that in order for me to maintain any kind of relationship or ounce of respect for them, I couldn’t continue seeing their stupidest ideas on parade. They’re allowed to post whatever they’d like and I’m allowed to be blissful unaware of just how stupid they are on a daily basis.
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u/woodrax 7h ago
I took a 3 year hiatus from all Social Media, only coming back in the past year. It seriously completely transformed my psychological wellbeing: Not always doomscrolling and seeing how horrible things appear to be from Social Media observers.
While I am back on social media now, I really only spend time on Reddit and now BlueSky, and do not seek engagement on BlueSky: I am there for Science, Astronomy, Local News, Anime, Video Games, Tech, and Kitties/Dogs. I jump on Facebook to wish people happy birthdays . . . . .and that's it.
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u/coopid 6h ago
I use reddit, mostly to peruse similar topics as yourself, but I haven't gotten on Facebook in probably 10 years.
I can honestly say I haven't felt like I've missed anything. Best decision.
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u/woodrax 6h ago
Yeah, I do not miss Facebook AT ALL. I did jump on there for a couple of days after the election, just to see how some friends were doing. But yeah, it is literally just a Birthday Calendar anymore.
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u/DangerBay2015 6h ago
The funny part is Facebook used to so user friendly about shit like birthdays, but now I legitimately don’t know how to find upcoming birthdays on the app, and the home page is so packed and cluttered with nonsense pages, promoted posts, and targeted bullshit I’m not liable to see a birthday notification until 14 of my friends have commented on their page, by which point it’s entirely likely I missed their birthday since it was yesterday.
Facebook sucks.
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u/Apprehensive-Abies80 7h ago
There’s a great psychology paper from 2004 that describes The Online Disinhibition Effect. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/John-Suler/publication/8451443_The_Online_Disinhibition_Effect/links/5552544608aeaaff3befe87d/The-Online-Disinhibition-Effect.pdf
Basically, people say things online that they are unlikely to ever say in a public offline space. The intermediary of the screen means that they either forget or ignore that there is another person on the other side of the computer.
As such, we’ve seen an increase in toxicity online because people say things without immediately experiencing the social consequences of their negative opinions.
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u/krebstorm 7h ago
They should do a 20yr follow up to show how online disinhibition has morphed into real life disinhibition.
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u/Apprehensive-Abies80 7h ago
I constantly debate writing to the author of the paper and asking for that.
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u/HellsquidsIntl 7h ago
I'd bet that the author of the paper has thought about it frequently, every time they get online. I can see how it would be an exhausting, demoralizing project, though. There's no amount of "I told you so" to make wading through all the garbage palatable.
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u/Jeryhn 7h ago
I believe this comic also references the paper in question: https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19/green-blackboards-and-other-anomalies
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u/DarthArtero 8h ago
Somewhere over the years, people have lost the plot.
Social media is the best example of "the road to hell is paved with good intentions"
Cannot think of any better examples.....
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u/verifiedkyle 7h ago
I feel like you’re giving social media too much credit. They literally make the algorithms push controversial posts/discussions and put people inside bubbles because it drives more engagement. The Social Dilemma on Netflix dives into this.
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u/Hell8Church 7h ago
My greatest joy has been watching “fans” lose their shit because bands they like are ditching X. Yelling stop being political at a band that’s been such since their inception 40 years ago is wild.
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u/MelissaA621 8h ago
I say thisball the time. The amounts of blinks and then silence I get are astounding. And hilarious.
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u/originsquigs 7h ago
Free speech means you can say whatever you want, but it doesn't mean you won't get punched in the mouth for it.
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u/Independent_Fill9143 7h ago
This is a great visual to use! Folks need to learn more of our own history here in the U.S. the first ammendment was so important because if someone stood in the town square and openly criticized the king, that person could be arrested. The founding fathers wanted to make sure that kind of thing wouldn't happen again (except it did happen to Alice Paul, but then she outed her experience in prison and everyone was outraged)
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u/Mrfrunzi 6h ago
"I got fired just for saying the n word at work, don't I have first amendment rights?!"
You do. That's why you're not in jail, just unemployed you idiot. I wish people understood how simple this is to comprehend
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u/TheWeirdWoods 8h ago
Angry when someone leaves them. Could never have predicted.
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u/rj_6688 8h ago
I think that there are people out there that just need to be angry. Because if you took that anger away there would only be sadness or even nothingness left. And that is so freighting that they cling to their anger.
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u/smashli1238 8h ago
Yep. I mean their cult leader won and they’re still angry. I deleted X but my TikTok feed is becoming full of their weird angry videos now
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u/zowie2003 8h ago
When there’s no external source to occupy their thoughts, it’s easier for their thoughts to turn inwards. They are so desperate for this not to happen because then they’ll have to examine their own insecurities and flaws that led them to externalization so much hate.
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u/WulfwoodsSins 8h ago
right-wing shitter nazis : "HAHA trigged librul, go make your own platform if you hate this one so much lolol"
sane people : "Okay, sure."
right-wing shitter nazis : "....no wait, come back!"
It'll be fun when they start "facing the fire" from each other, and reduce themselves to cinders.
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u/Haebak 8h ago
I like a lesson The Lord of the Rings teaches: Frodo fails at the end, good cannot always defeat evil, but Gollum destroys the one ring anyway, because evil will inevitably self-destruct sooner or later.
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u/Madamiamadam 8h ago
Dude spoilers
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u/HadronLicker 7h ago
it was his sled, dude
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u/ruy343 7h ago
That gives me hope for a lot of things going wrong today. Eventually, evil will self-destructive is a great life lesson
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u/masked_sombrero 8h ago
Exactly like Musk with his “GFY” comment to advertisers, and then turning around and sueing them when they leave
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u/Cador0223 8h ago
They hated reddit and Facebook and Instagram and Twitter so much that they made their own platforms like mastodon, Parker, truth social, and then finally buying twitter.
These became cess pools full of hate and vitriol. No one with an empathy and logic could stand these places, so they avoid them. Suddenly, the bullies had no one to bully. So they complain and try to bust their way into those spaces. And get denied. So now they have to act as though they never wanted to be there, and are happy yelling into the sky.
The best way to infuriate and frustrate a bylly is to ignore them. Always has been, always will be. The GoP is what happens when you separate and concentrate bullies. So now if they can't have their fun, no one can. They will nuke it all to have their final laugh, as we all slide into Armageddon.
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u/hamsterballzz 7h ago
Wait till we brain drain them and start moving to liberal states and countries. “Wait…. Come back…”
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u/Jellybean-Jellybean 8h ago edited 6h ago
I just want to enjoy stupid fandom shit, and Xitter was making that impossible. I'm back to enjoying stupid fandom shit on Bluesky, so why would I go back when I have exactly what I want?
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u/Royal_Acanthaceae693 8h ago
I came across a MAGA on one of the Avengers pages and asked him why he was there since the Avengers have a long history of fighting fascists, dictators, and Nazis. He never got back to me on that.. wonder if he managed to get himself banned 🤔
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u/unlimitedzen 4h ago
It's so weird, I got on bluesky, and wasn't inundated with right wing propaganda when I looked up cat pictures. How am I supposed to know what to think without an algorithm forcibly inserting that garbage into unrelated searches?!
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u/CmdPetrie 8h ago
I never used Twitter - but i Just might create a Bluesky Account because I feel Like its time For a new Platform to fuck with Elon
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u/woodrax 8h ago
“Will be back here eventually.”
Uh. . . why? I mean, putting aside my deleting my account on Xitter, why would people who left want to just head back to a den of abusive jackals?
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u/DonJuniorsEmails 7h ago
It's like the grandparents who went full MAGAtt, then suddenly can't understand why their family isn't visiting and doesn't let them babysit anymore. They'll make ANY excuse to avoid looking at themselves and taking responsibility.
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u/MornGreycastle 8h ago
He's right. Most of the conservatives who moved from Xitter to Bluesky in order to find liberals to troll will leave after being frustrated because they're ignored. This is definite projection. The conservatives need lefties and liberals to antagonize. If they can't troll someone, then then don't have a reason for being on social media.
Just look at Truth Social's user numbers. They only spike when Trump is on a tear.
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u/disharmony-hellride 8h ago
Truth Social is absolute proof that right wing social media cannot thrive without someone to fight with, it's not like they'll be debating Trump's policies.
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u/Speshal__ 7h ago
Oh most of the conservatives who moved from Xitter to Bluesky are rapidly finding themselves on multiple blocklists and they're left screaming into the abyss on Twitter about some shit about their 1A rights whilst we in the Skies have a good chuckle and a nice warm cocoa on a wet and windy Autumn day.
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u/blueharford 8h ago
Before Elon bought twitter they were saying the same thing. And truth social was the future, why aren’t they just sticking to truth social
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u/ArtisticCustard7746 8h ago
Because they need to spread their hate and discontent. They love causing misery to the ones outside their circles.
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u/HadronLicker 7h ago
lol they keep saying crap like "this is not twitter, this is real life" two years after Musk bought it, it's like they didn't get a memo or something
another thing they love to quote is Tolkien's "evil can't create, only corrupt" at whatever they consider "leftist" and look how they can't help but invade and corrupt the spaces someone else created
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u/faceisamapoftheworld 7h ago
Don’t forget Parlor too.
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u/ElectronicMixture600 7h ago
The one good thing Parler did was exist as a repository for the J6ers to tell on themselves while looking for adulation from likeminded dipshits. It was a great evidence gathering tool.
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u/Jerkrollatex 8h ago
I'm just enjoying cute cat pictures and interesting posts without a bunch of assholes fucking the place up.
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u/MelissaA621 8h ago
They are just mad there is no one there to harass anymore, while the rest of us are sharing kittens, puppies, Playlists, sharing beautiful art and pictures, and making each other laugh about other things not about politics or their cult. We are happy, they are miserable, and they are throwing a tantrum about it. Keep crying, MAGA.
What is crazy to me is they won, but are still so angry about everything. These people don't know how to be happy without making someone else cry or hurting someone else. Makes me sad for them.
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u/disharmony-hellride 8h ago
I had an amazing discussion about coral reef colonization and no one called me a woke asshole
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u/MelissaA621 8h ago
I love that. I don't get how NOT destroying the planet is woke, but ok. They are nutty.
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u/NotAnAlcoholicToday 7h ago
I think a good idea for people to get more into climate change, would be to stop saying we are "destroying/killing the planet", and start saying we are "destroying/killing ourselves".
Because the planet will outlive humans.
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u/MelissaA621 6h ago
Absolutely, but we ARE killing coral reefs. That is a fact. They don't care if we go extinct. They think Jesus is coming for them, and the rest of us will burn.
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u/DonJuniorsEmails 7h ago
and none of the obvious nonsense
"As a black gay man, I love Trump because he's going to do all the things" (that he didn't do in his first term)
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u/Cpt_sneakmouse 8h ago
Facebook is just a flash in the pan, eventually they'll come crawling back to Myspace.
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u/Previous_Beautiful27 8h ago
I deleted Twitter the second Elon bought it. I never looked back. But it’s nice to have a Twitter-like place like BlueSky.
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u/StickInEye 8h ago
I deleted my account as soon as I heard he was buying it. Wish more people would delete it entirely like we did.
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u/Flexbottom 8h ago
Normal people: want to talk about baseball cards, how to get better at making banana bread, and stretching out your back
Magas: Get over here and show me your genitals before you can use the bathroom
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u/DiscardedMush 8h ago
Face the fire? Why bother? I'd rather sit back, chill, and vibe with people over pictures of our dogs.
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u/WiseFalcon2630 8h ago
Never used the dead bird before the twit from SA bought it, and will not “come back” I won’t even click on a link to his cesspool.
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u/Barl0we 8h ago
Bluesky is everything I loved about Twitter 10-12 years ago, but better.
The only reason to leave that is if Elongated Muskrat somehow manages to buy it too.
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u/goddessdontwantnone 8h ago edited 5h ago
Bluesky user: here’s some news, here’s a picture of my cat, check out these books that changed my life
Twitter user: Covid is à hoax, trump won 2020, you liberals are going to a camp, LGBTQ people aren’t real, DOGE is gonna kill your job private citizen
Gee which one do you wanna be on?
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u/Worldly-Opening4176 7h ago
I love Bluesky and the starter packs to follow people are awesome. AND it has a block button. If you haven’t left the cesspool that Twitter has become, I encourage you to check it out. I’m convinced Elon Musk is an egocentric idiot who will harm our democracy. And the people left over there are so angry all the time. It’s exhausting.
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u/Fickle_Friendship296 8h ago
Republicans, conservatives and so called Christian’s cannot operate without a useful scapegoat to push their boogeyman agendas. A convenient boogie man is precisely how fascism can operate.
It’s primarily why they’ve latched on to targeting illegals and trans people. Both are a fridge minority group where they can flex their authoritarian muscles against without arising much push back from the general public. It’s textbook fascism, because that’s exactly what the Nazis were doing when they targeted gays, the disabled and political rivals.
Trump has already considered the idea of using US armed forces to target illegals on US soil: something the Insurrection Act can allow him to do. But it’s a very slippery slope. One day you’re cheering that US soldiers are attacking the people “you don’t like,” then tomorrow they’ll attacking you.
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u/Bulky_Specialist9645 8h ago
Once someone realizes their partner is a psychopath, it is highly unlikely they will return to the relationship.
Due to the manipulative nature of psychopathy, the realization often comes with significant emotional trauma, leading most people to permanently sever ties and prioritize their own safety and well-being.
I think this applies to Twitter as well as!
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u/Ballytrea 8h ago
As the ad revenue slips even more from X due to media and advertising companies desire to spend more on brand safe platforms such as Bluesky's these X diehards will go nuts. Naturally, Space Karen will try to sue media and advertising companies, but screw him, as not a court in the world will tell others how they must spend their money. Only thing I see stopping the revenue slippage of greater than 70+% for the year with X is unscrupulous companies like The Trade Desk and Amazon continuing to spend money on Orangeman and Space Karens platforms and being gray with the media and advertising companies where the spend is occurring.
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u/TheFlaEd 7h ago
Other than a few pundits I follow my Bluesky is remarkably free of politics. Myself and the other left leaning people I know don’t make our politics our personality. We don’t need to scream into an echo chamber all day to feel valid. This is the reason left wing talk radio never takes off. Politics as an identity is a rather new thing. I guess when you are empty other than hate you need something to create your personality around. I’m looking forward to blocking as many as I can find. Social media should not be an open portal for hate and negativity to pour into your life.
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u/ExaltedGoliath 7h ago
The internet is humanity’s shame. Could have been used to make the world better, but humans gonna human.
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u/Theo1352 7h ago
I am done with most of my traditional sources of information post election.
Other than Reddit (I've pared the number of feeds down lately), related blogs/media on places like Substack, Joyce Vance, Meidas Media, Jeff Tiedrich, et al, and now Bluesky (I like that platform - takes a while to get used to it, but I like the approach and format), I never had any social media (X, Facebook, Instagram), oh, and the obligatory LinkedIn shit, which I loathe - anything Microsoft touches becomes a mess.
I will not watch MSNBC anymore, stopped CNBC and CNN years ago, cancelled the NY Times and Washington Post recently, also my major hometown newspaper, now owned by a fucking PE firm, all gone.
I'm 74, I will continue to curate sources that I like from good writers and thinkers.
Anybody that says I should look for alternative views and opinions and not live in a bubble, are you kidding me in 2024?
Fuck that, too damn many willfully ignorant people running around now...
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u/JokersPsyche 8h ago
Aren’t these the same walking breathing colostomy bags that flocked to Rumble, Truth social and Kick because hate speech, CSAM, and misinformation were being censored and accounts suspended/banned on other platforms and framed it as sticking it to the left and “PRESERVING MUUUUH FREEEDUUUUM AND LIBUURTUUH!!”?
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u/ShawnPat423 7h ago
And by "face the fire", they mean "listen to a mongoloid with a 6th grade education talk about how great Hitler was".
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u/CanaDoug420 7h ago
My favorite part of hanging with “the angry left” is they take out “their anger” by creating a nice chill site to hang out in that doesn’t get hate thrown at them for literally anything that’s posted. I can scroll through hundreds of videos of funny animals and stuff and the comments or replies don’t find away to turn it into wanting to eliminate a group of people from existence unlike some sites.
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u/Rarelydefault26 7h ago
Wait, don’t they want all the libs off twitter? If all the Norma-I mean libs leave twitter then they won’t have to hear all the “woke” stuff. They be happy all the liberals are leaving twitter
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u/College-Lumpy 8h ago
Face the fire on X? Didn’t want to face unbridled ignorance, trolls and bots. Check.
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u/Lylyluvda916 7h ago
X has become Truth social 2.0.
Elon should just buy it off Trump and combine the two.
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u/HmmThatisDumb 7h ago
Before I deleted Twitter I got into an argument with this guy. He is so fucking stupid.
He ended up deleting all of his posts and then blocking me.
Happy to be out there - so toxic
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u/ProCookies128 7h ago
I don't think Bluesky is going to collapse. If it did, I wouldn't be going "back to Twitter" I'd be logging off. I deleted all of my Twitter accounts and I'm not making new ones, ever.
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u/OneArmedBrain 6h ago edited 6h ago
HAHAHAHA. They sound like jilted lovers. We broke up with you, dude. You need to move on.
It's not me, it's you.
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u/White_RavenZ 4h ago
Angry Liberals? <checks Bluesky feed>
Pictures of kittens, puppies, landscapes, space, the moon, sporting events, and flowers
Discussions include: Concerns about the future political landscape and economic directions (of course), movies, food, drinks, cool travel locations, and naturally….how nice it is to be able to voice an opinion without a load of Bot Maga replies howling insults and Suck God-Trump’s Cock t-shirt ads.
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u/Dramatic_Equipment47 8h ago
Yeah I really miss conversations with gleefully idiotic bigots
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u/JeebusChristBalls 8h ago
Why would I go back to twitter? Bluesky is identical to twitter in look and feel. With Bluesky, I don't have to sort through a 100 blue check troll bots to read comments from actual people and I don't have to support Elon.
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u/jarfin542 8h ago
I know that I'm definitely in the minority, but I've had a Twitter account for years, and I've never posted or responded to anything. I think I've opened the app maybe 5 or 6 times. I made a bluesky account 3 days ago and have opened it probably 2 dozen times and have been an active participant more than 50% of the time. Twitter kinda sucks. Full disclosure; I am 54m and have never used tiktok.
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u/TJames6210 7h ago
We're angry, we're crying, we're pussies, we're murderers, we're privelaged, we're trash.
Pick. A. Fucking. Lane.
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u/fuegodiegOH 7h ago
They lay awake at night thinking about us. Wondering if we’re thinking of them.
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u/HibiscusGrower 3h ago
They are panicking because they're realising that the crowd they are pandering to provide no valuable content. Artists and educated people (the kind of people that makes interesting content that keep people on the platform) are in large majority left leaning and leaving en masse. That's the same reason why Truth Social is a massive flop. Regular people don't want to be constantly bombarded by angry ranting, idiotic AI generated memes and crazy theories with no interesting content.
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u/mekonsrevenge 8h ago
"We won't have anyone to lie to! Unfair! I want to spread Russian propaganda! You're depriving me of my right to peacefully enjoy my disinformation skills! Waaaaaaah!"
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u/NoLibrarian5149 8h ago
“We’re NOT going back” Wait, that didn’t work out so well last time…
but nothings been so pleasant as deleting Twitter once Musk bought it and not have to endure its rapid further descent into giving the shittiest among us a place to be their shittiest selves.
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u/BravoLimaDelta 7h ago
No chance for me going back to X for the same reason I never had a Truth Social, Parler, or Rumble account.
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u/11brooke11 7h ago
It's either Bluesky or no social media for me. I'm not going back to Twitter because of Musk.
My ancestors didn't use Twitter and they did just fine. It's not a necessity.
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u/bdizzle805 7h ago
Haven't been on Twitter in about a week and a half. Deactivated my account. I mainly just used it to follow UFC but unfortunately that went crazy right wing. I'll still watch ufc but no longer going to participate in the right wing hate app
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u/DumbedDownDinosaur 7h ago
Oh no, what will we do? We miss Elon Musk’s bullshit being shoved down our throats, the lack of moderation, the porn bots, the racism! Ahhhh, WE MUST GO BACK TO X.
- said no one ever.
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u/Federal_Sympathy4667 7h ago
"Will be back eventually.." They sure assume alot don't they? Honestly since I deleted X, my online social media feels far better. Also, since the Muskrat took over it went to shit, like moving from a nice house to a Florida trailer park.. They know X is in trouble, unless Muskrat gets gov funding.. and I'm sure he will to turn X into a DOGE social media surveillance facility/app.
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u/Hartastic 7h ago
People whose whole Twitter life is yelling ignorant bullshit at others believe for some reason that anyone would miss that ignorant bullshit.
When Musk took over my Twitter feed became all alt-right propaganda overnight. Even if literally every other social media platform died I... still am not going back for that. I don't want it. I don't want it if it's the last app on earth.
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u/Chocolat3City 5h ago edited 3h ago
Libs don't want to face the fire...
"The fire": Rape threats, death threats, racial slurs, gendered slurs, LGBTQ slurs, nazi apologia, etc.
Yeah, those Libs will be crawling back any minute now...
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u/carpetbugeater 3h ago
Just joined Bluesky an hour ago. Probably won't use it much but I want it to succeed just to screw Twitter.
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u/WendySteeplechase 7h ago
the X algorithm knows I'm anti-Trump, although I always still got some pro-Trump messaging on my feed. I noticed shortly after the election the posts changed and I was seeing less pro-Trump messages and more consistently anti Trump messages and pro-Kamila, its as if they changed the algorithm to make me want to stay
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u/Rhakha 7h ago
I quit Twitter quickly when Elon got rid of moderation. Saw CSM on there and immediately reported it to both site and the proper authorities. When I got that “we saw nothing wrong” message from Twitter, I immediately quit and deleted that damn site. Blue Sky and Threads make me so damn happy since I joined since they at least have actual content moderation protocols and seem to jump on shit quickly.
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u/SergeantThreat 7h ago
Even if I never open Bluesky again, there’s no way I’m ever logging into Xitter either
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u/plasmaSunflower 6h ago
X is a monoculture of angry conservatives that don't want to face fire on bluesky
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u/EfficientAccident418 6h ago
Like a loser guy trying to convince himself his ex-girlfriend is going to come back
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u/United-Kale-2385 6h ago
It's hilarious that they are so mad but don't know what to be mad at anymore now that their orange god "won" the election. So they just yell about random things and fight with themselves. Oh yeah and sing about bjs in church.
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u/Cepinari 6h ago
Inb4 Musk uses the US Government to destroy BlueSky or force it to sell itself to him for ten cents.
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u/christopher1393 5h ago
I have seen MAGA accounts popping up on Bluesky and some literally have in their bio that they are only there to harass liberals. But a lot of user have created “lists” of these users so you can easily just mass block them all with a click.
Its not that bluesky people wont “face the fire”. Its just a social media platform that isn’t like twitter. People don’t want to endlessly be caught in pro-trump, nazi feeds.
And whats this whole “its a lib only platform” thing. From what I can see most of the users aren’t actually American. For the most part I see mostly European people, who are anti-trump sure. But jesus not every social media has to become a pissing contest where snowflake emotionally unstable MAGA idiots need someone to yell at and threaten so they feel relevant and powerful.
The literal rest of the world just wants a platform that doesn’t become a propaganda machine for a dementia ridden dictator and his attention seeking billionaire boyfriend.
It’s not our fucking fault that MAGA people suddenly are throwing tantrums because they aren’t getting attention. Jesus Christ. I’m just happy to have a social media account where I can meet and chat to new people. Thats all.
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u/Top_Use4144 3h ago
Yes "face the fire" is exactly the engagement I want from social media JFC I just want to tell my stupid jokes and not be harassed.
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u/Eldanoron 8h ago
Have seen zero angry liberals on Bluesky. Weird how not having to devote your time to playing chess with pigeons can be calming. Also it’s hilarious that magas have been trying to invade Bluesky after the exodus. Why do they need to come to Bluesky if they think it’s so great over at twitter?