[wannacboatmovie]

This is spot on. BlueSky and Threads have just become "left-wing Twitter", intentionally in quotes because it's actually a very small subset of users that left to found their own hug-box, due to some irrational hate of Musk, or that people they don't like at the old place are allowed to have opinions again.

Nobody cares about protocols, except maybe the handful of infosec nerds on Mastodon. It's about a middle school-level rearranging of friend groups. A VIP lounge where they only hang out with their own.

There was an exodus of a small subset of users, and BlueSky was there like an abandoned building that was squatted. It being invite-only added to the exclusivity as invites were passed amongst like-minded peers online, further adding to the echo-chamber.

[lxgr]

I left Twitter because I got tired of having inflammatory content be shoved in my face without ever actively following any of the people posting it.

Censorship is bad, but amplification of horrible takes is not equivalent the absence of censorship.

The quality of ads (I was using the official client) was also quickly approaching the quality of predatory late-night TV shopping channels (“call NOW to get our ULTRA LINT REMOVER with free shipping!!!”).

[wannacboatmovie]

> but amplification of horrible takes

The problem is the definition of 'horrible takes' is, and always will be, subjective.

[lxgr]

It is, so I left, just like I’m not reading newspapers that I don’t like the editorial decisions of.

Possibly there is also a way to run a social network uneditorialized, but Twitter clearly isn't attempting that.

[djur]

Right, which is why people may prefer Bluesky, which doesn't amplify anyone's takes and lets users decide what they prefer to see.

[gammarator]

> that people they don't like at the old place are allowed to have opinions again.

Sorry, but I think that deliberately obfuscates the changes Musk has made at Twitter. See https://ketanjoshi.co/2024/04/19/you-are-the-fuel-that-energ... for one summary.

[djur]

Why is hating Elon Musk irrational? Regardless of politics or business practices, his personal conduct is revolting.

[wannacboatmovie]

Why do you care? You're not his friend or related to him. He is the CEO of a scaled text messaging app.

Do you get upset if the CEO of your electric utility made stupid political statements?

Or if the owner of a car dealership cheats on his wife?

Tiger Woods slept with like fifty waitresses and masses of people were furious. Why? What did they expect his life as a star athlete was?

People dislike Musk out of pure jealousy and try to rationalize it via other means. The logical option would be to simply not care.

[lxgr]

His tweets started appearing in my feed at an absurd rate some time after he bought it, and I never followed him.

That’s like my utility company insisting I watch a message from their CEO on all devices they power every once in a while, or the owner of my car dealership calling me every once in a while unprompted to chitchat.

[wannacboatmovie]

> or the owner of my car dealership calling me every once in a while unprompted to chitchat.

If you know the secret to stopping car dealership spam, please share!

[fredoliveira]

> People dislike Musk out of pure jealousy and try to rationalize it via other means.

I don't think this is true. Most people I hear express that they don't particularly like him, also attribute it to things that made me not like him. The rescuer story, the absurd trolling, the disparaging of specific individuals, the pretending to be for "freedom of speech" until the speech is about him.

This is a person I once thought had the desire and the means to push humanity forward. He's done so much, all of it tainted by, well, being absolutely unhinged.

[krapp]

Are you Elon's friend or relative? Logically, other people's opinions about him shouldn't concern you at all. Yet here you are white knighting someone who's just the CEO of a scaled text messaging app. Why do you care?

[djur]

Who's talking about "getting upset"? Elon Musk has done a lot of things in his life that slot him into the "bad person, do not like, do not support" category. That's just called forming an opinion. I'm not playing darts with his photograph. I'd prefer to hear as little about or from him as possible, frankly.