What are your thoughts on Bluesky?

[yungwake0]

I dislike the Twitter format in general, I feel like it's too prone to circlejerking (for lack of a better word) and doesn't lend itself very well to any real discussion. These days, I also feel obligated to believe anything I see on "social media" is either AI, a troll, or both, which sours me on using any of it. I do think it's nice to have an alternative that isn't owned by Elon Musk (🤢🤢🤢) and doesn't scare non-techies like Mastodon/Fediverse

[small_cypress]

It's become another no-nuance outrage machine. I am so tired of piling onto people I'd rather really just ignore. Bluesky has great block lists, but its design (as so many of you have pointed out) is always going to be lowest-common-denominator outrage bait.

I also hate that I started to see widely distorted and straight up false information distributed by my fellow leftists that rivals the right-wing misinformation that made Facebook unusable. Reality is alarming enough, we don't need to make stuff up. And because of the format, you're unlikely to see a correction in the firehose of new outrage and made up dramas.

I do have an account for sharing my art as I am moving away from Instagram but I'm not really a consumer of content - except from Joey Politano any time I want spicy economics memes and Joshua Friedman for courtroom play-by-plays (althought I just follow his bridged account on Mastodon).