Comment on Valve has created a Steam Bluesky account
Modva@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
That’s great, I suppose less concentration to a single platform is a better direction.
Is there less rage and frothing at the mouth on Bluesky? I would imagine whatever ills plague Twitter would also eventually come to Bluesky, because people are there. And people are people. We don’t seem to have a solution to the problem - which is a specific subset of people intent on harm, and allowing them direct and wholesale access to the social fabric.
So easy nowadays to fabricate rage-inducing and follower-generating bait. No time for truth and no plan to really get there. How long before we see someone take a stab at a ministry of truth?
Is there less rage and frothing at the mouth on Bluesky?
Yes, but I think that’s temporary. When you have tens of millions of users, that’s inevitable. Right now a lot of people are on their honeymoon periods, but I already see sprouts of negative attitude.
karashta@piefed.social 4 weeks ago
The block function is heavily used. Whole block lists get passed around quite frequently. I've never really seen much hate on there unless I'm clicking into something obviously heated politically. Other people may have other experiences, but the current culture there is to not engage the hate farmers and just block people instead
Ofiuco@lemmy.cafe 4 weeks ago
Default_Defect@midwest.social 4 weeks ago
b-b-but echo chamber!
icecreamtaco@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
In the real world, you cool down hostility by talking it out. On the internet it’s the opposite
stardust@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
Isn’t it more in the real world people don’t interact with close to the number of people they do on the internet, and they never encounter or avoid a lot of people which acts like a real world filter or blocklist?
Internet is like walking in a store and then being flooded with hearing the thoughts of everyone in the store like you’re experiencing a telepathic attack.
SketchySeaBeast@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
In the real world you don’t get obvious bad faith actors in your face shouting nonsense very often, and when you do, you usually walk away from them too. It’s not helpful to engage with people who are actively working against cooling down.
Klear@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I think it’s the general focus on driving engagement and feeding the algorithm.
Ofiuco@lemmy.cafe 4 weeks ago
radix@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Nuclear block plus a culture of not feeding the trolls means the only toxic accounts I’ve run across are just a day or two old. Block and move on. The experience can only be as negative as each user lets it be.
static09@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
This has been my experience too. The community moderation tools on top of the tools available to moderate my own feed are leagues ahead of other platforms. Being able to temporarily block keywords feels really awesome in avoiding dumb shit that can blast through social media.