Hell fucking yes.
Quoting here:
So, moderation became the direction followed and millions have chosen to follow Bluesky as a result. A consequence of this decision is that Bluesky is now regularly described as an ‘echo chamber’, a place where someone supposedly only ever hears the same thing and it is always what they like.
First, the people saying this, mainly in legacy news outlets, have not necessarily read any of the scholarship that challenges the very idea that echo chambers exist.
Second, this largely unfounded criticism tells us a lot about how far our politics seem to have drifted to the right. Apparently, we can no longer consider ourselves as partaking in a genuine ‘town square’ and we cannot consider our speech ‘free’ if we are not open to being shouted at by neo-Nazis, racists, misogynists, anti-vaxxers, conspiracy theorists, science deniers, homophobes and transphobes.
When the alt-right came to light around 2015, their stated aim was to shift what is called the so-called Overton Window, or what is deemed permissible in public debate. Looking at the complaints laid against Bluesky, we can only conclude they have succeeded, but that does not mean I should be forced to listen to their antisemitism, Holocaust denial, race science, rape apologies or the myriad forms of discrimination they are committed to enforcing. Bluesky allows us to turn them off, and Bluesky users are pleased by that.
Third, it also says so much about right-wing politics itself. When the ‘liberals’ and the ‘leftists’ (names that in fact mask a great deal of diversity) left Twitter, the political right then tried to chase them into the places they migrated to. This previously happened on Mastodon where neo-Nazis quickly opened Mastodon instances and attempted to federate with others in order to continue their trolling, only to be quickly de-federated by the other instances and left to float off into cyberspace. (This is how Mastodon’s immune system works.)
https://newsroom.co.nz/2024/11/27/nothin-but-blue-skies-from-now-on/
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