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by echelon14 hours ago |
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upvoteby viccis13 hours ago|
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Bluesky is political because their invite-only on-boarding process for months meant that only really tight knit subgroups and subcultures found their way in. By the time your average person who just wanted to stop seeing ads about Great Replacement Theory or whatever found their way into Bluesky, it was chock full of furry art, "fandom" posting from teenagers on the spectrum, and political rambling from people who haven't touched grass since puberty.
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upvoteby angoragoats13 hours ago|
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How does having a really tightly controlled and/or lengthy invite period translate into the user base being of one particular political viewpoint? I'm not seeing the causal link. Even if I take at face value your claim that "only really tight knit subgroups and subcultures found their way in," I still don't see how these subgroups or subcultures would necessarily have the same political views.
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upvoteby viccis9 hours ago|
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Well it self selected for left wing ones.

My point is normal people who aren't extremely online and part of 10 Discord servers with an internet friend network who can hook them up with an invite didn't get into Bluesky. Instead the people who, well, did, got the invites. Obviously the extremely online right didn't because they had other places to go and weren't welcomed by the bsky admins.

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upvoteby angoragoats3 hours ago|
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“Well it self selected for left wing ones” didn’t answer my question in the least, so I’ll just assume your claim is false.
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upvoteby angoragoats14 hours ago|
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upvoteby Forgeties7913 hours ago|
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“Too political” usually means “not my politics” IME.
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upvoteby angoragoats13 hours ago|
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Maybe? But that doesn't really have much to do with my point.
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upvoteby Forgeties7913 hours ago|
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I was agreeing with you
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upvoteby viccis9 hours ago|
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>Twitter is a haven for people who are fans of generating non-consensual porn of others, white supremacy/white nationalism, murder of innocent civilians, and other reprehensible things.

It's really not. It's where everyone is right now. The Trots and Maoists. The demsoc local politicians. The vegan militant organizers. Etc. You can also include whatever shitty group you want to cherry pick to make your disingenuous ass argument. And when you do, post it to Bluesky where people can get a dopamine rush with you as they shake their heads and smile and post how horrible it is.

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upvoteby angoragoats3 hours ago|
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Based on this reply and others, it seems Twitter is frying your brain and you should probably stop using it.

Care to actually refute my point instead of saying “nuh uh” and lobbing some childish insults my way?

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