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Comment on The Right Has a Bluesky Problem
UrLogicFails@beehaw.org 3 weeks ago
It seems like Twitter may have passed the thermocline and now seems to be hemorrhaging left leaning users.
What I found interesting about this article was how the right leaning users are likely to follow them because they need the left leaning users for engagement. I suppose on some level it’s common sense. Truth Social and Gab never took off for a reason; but it’s still interesting to think about.
socsa@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
zephorah@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
A lot if left leaving journalism can get annoying, but The Atlantic is solid. I’d believe them.
aeshna_cyanea@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
The Atlantic is not left leaning journalism lmao. A good rule of thumb is that if you publish David Brooks you’re not left leaning
sculd@beehaw.org 3 weeks ago
The Atlantic is also anti-trans Can’t believe people actually think it is left leaning
zephorah@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
It gets listed as such.
aeshna_cyanea@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
It might, but actual leftists should object to that framing
Kichae@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
It will be interesting to see what happens as they follow their victims over. Right now, people seem to be experiencing Bluesky as a breath of fresh air, and are attributing it to things like block lists (which, yeah, that’s a good idea, and one that we’ve been asking for for a long while), but a big part of it is just that the ratio of trolls to liberals is way lower right now. They’ll figure out how to break through the algorithm eventually, and around the block lists.
And when that happens, Twitter’s going to bleed out rapidly as the fashy mouth breathers show up to flex over how they cannot be stopped. Because, yeah, there’s nothing keeping them on Twitter once their victims are gone.
UrLogicFails@beehaw.org 3 weeks ago
I think (/hope) trolls are going to have a pretty hard time gaining traction on Bluesky. As you’ve mentioned, the block lists are quite effective; but also the lack of algorithm helps too. No matter how many likes/reskeets an offensive skeet gets, I will never see it unless someone I follow specifically reskeets it themselves.
With this in mind, most people seeing the trolls’ posts will likely only be the trolls themselves. Of course they can hop into the comments of a popular skeet; but once they are blocked by the original poster, their skeet becomes removed for everybody.
From what I can tell, the enhanced moderation tools combined with the followed-only feed should make being a troll on Bluesky much harder…
socsa@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Are they really using the term "reskeet?"
It certainly paints a very specific mental image.
jonne@infosec.pub 3 weeks ago
That’s somehow worse than Mastodon’s toots.
UrLogicFails@beehaw.org 3 weeks ago
That is really the term. Of course, every time a new wave of users join, they always say they’ll never call them “skeets,” but they usually change their mind in time.
In my personal opinion, I actually really appreciate them being called “skeets.” It kind of serves as a reminder that they are not to be taken seriously. I also appreciate that calling them “skeets” will help deter large corporations from joining for some time. (What company wants to be associated with a social media site where the posts are a tongue-in-cheek reference to ejaculate?)
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
It just reminds me of this… One of Killer Mike’s best, imho. Frisky Dingo died too soon.
Kichae@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
The shared block lists need to keep up with bad faith signups, which will stop happening once the trolls are actually trying, though. So, it’s going to be on the shoulders of the subscriber feed.
Which was something that Twitter augmented long before they were bought by Elon. And is something that will probably show up once the shareholders start pushing the company towards an IPO, which will happen eventually.
But maybe they’ll add other interesting safety features before then.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
I’m wondering when the bot armies of sign-ups will come out in force to a point where blocklists can’t keep up…
realitista@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Bluesky has some very powerful features here like auto updating block lists which you can subscribe to and which will automatically remove trolls for you. And they are policing hate speech and harassment.