[IAmGraydon]

As a broader comment about Bluesky, it seems to me that it's heavily left-leaning, while Twitter/X is obviously leaning more and more to the right. Amazingly, it seems that the BlueSky/X dichotomy is another emergent manifestation of a fracturing and continually more polarized society. In my opinion, what we will ultimately end up with is two echo chambers, each catering to opposite ends of the spectrum, each radicalizing their respective userbase, and each further amplifying the divide in society today.

[purplethinking]

I have no interest in being in a left-leaning bubble. I get both sides on X, so far. People think X has been leaning more and more to the right, but in truth it's just not being censored (sorry, moderated) anymore, leading to more right-leaning content. Leftists can't really tolerate any difference of opinion so they move to other platforms, it's sad. But I think they'll be bored and eventually come back for some more drama.

[MeetingsBrowser]

What specific type of content was being censored before Elon took over that is being allowed now?

[jazzyjackson]

In the particular little culture war concerning gender identity, pre Elon you would get banned for "deadnaming" and criticizing the health claims of gender clinics (aka transphobia)

It's flipped now, Elon has tweeted that using cis to describe not-trans people is a slur. Which seems like going the other way on "free speech absolutism" but whatever.

[AlexeyBelov]

To your first point: I've seen accounts not being banned for years doing exactly that intentionally.

[purplethinking]

https://www.congress.gov/118/meeting/house/115286/documents/...

"“A new [Twitter Files] investigation reveals that teams of Twitter employees build blacklists, prevent disfavored tweets from trending, and actively limit the visibility of entire accounts or even trending topics — all in secret, without informing users,” Weiss wrote in a tweet Thursday."

It's a very enlightening document, I recommend a full read through

[MeetingsBrowser]

The same kind of censorship seems to still be happening on Twitter.

Joe Biden laptop was blocked before, J.D. Vance dossier is blocked today.

[purplethinking]

Was there anything controversial in that dossier? The Guardian claims it was blocked for leaking JD Vance social security number

[MeetingsBrowser]

I don't know what is in it because it was censored...

[samatman]

I seem to recall at some point that that old Twitter banned the account of the sitting President of the United States.

Later, Twitter banned a comedy account, the Babylon Bee. That pissed Elon off enough to buy it.

Both are back on Twitter now, both the comedy account, and the politician who will be President for a second term in January, having won both the Electoral College and the popular vote.

That's just two examples, but I would call them salient ones.