The Globe and Mail - The problem with Bluesky: It won't broaden our horizons

[Dennis Donovan]

Andrew Weinstein
‪@andrewweinstein.bsky.social‬
These preachy liberal echo chamber pieces totally miss the point. Bluesky is a welcome and much needed place to build a community with people you actually want to hang out with. What could be wrong with that?

November 22, 2024 at 10:03 AM

I'd really like it if Bluesky would start verifying users like Twitter used to. Without it, I can't fully trust it as a news aggregate like I used to be able to with Twitter.

https://bsky.app/profile/andrewweinstein.bsky.social/post/3lbkar5nx2k2j

[Johnny2X2X]

1. Double standard

Liberals need to "broaden our horizons and consider other views." No one ever says MAGA and the Neo Nazis in MAGA need to broaden their horizons and listen to other views.

[yardwork]

5. Exactly!

[Jarqui]

10. But X would filter out liberal views and promote his or conservative views ...nt

[WhiskeyGrinder]

2. Lol it definitely broadens my horizons -- as twitter did.

By carefully curating my feed, I'm able to witness discussions about topics I have no access to otherwise. Just because those discussions don't include right-wing, racist, TERF or other oppressive voices doesn't mean I'm not learning and growing, or that I'm in a bubble.

[TrunKated]

3. "Broaden our horizons"?

Like letting ourselves be exposed to new right wing propaganda and other lies?

What kind of broadening do they want? New ideas and information can still be shared among like minds.

"Broaden your horizons?" I'm going to find some zen Buddhists and some new artists to follow.

[Autumn]

4. Yeah, I'm sure X has really broadened your horizons.

[Dennis Donovan]

6. The response to the Globe and Mail's Bluesky post is nearly unanimous

https://bsky.app/profile/theglobeandmail.com/post/3lbjtqmah4u2c

[Autumn]

8. I love Bluesky. The garbage can stay on X

[Iggo]

7. Hateful pieces of shit demanding that others be "open minded"....again.

Nothing new here.

[Quiet Em]

9. It's kind of funny how angry right wingers are that

nobody wants to hang around and read their crap on Elon's cesspool. It's just a larger Truth Social at this point.

[usonian]

11. Broaden your horizons by reading "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich." I did as a youngster. It had a profound effect.

And you can see it unfolding, sorry to say.
Fascists copy each other.
They just pick a different group to target.
And as Tom Lehrer says "and everybody hates the Jews"
https://tomlehrersongs.com/824-2/ (National Brotherhood Week)

[DoBW]

12. Ok weinstein, whinesteen, sh*tstein, whatever ...

you stick to Xshitter and Fox

[Stuckinthebush]

13. Give me an f-ing break

I'm so sick of this type of crap. Liberals need to broaden their horizons. Screw that and screw X and Elon.

[travelingthrulife]

14. Who wants their horizons broadened by hateful MAGAS?

What a load.

[kysrsoze]

15. Translation: Right-wing knuckledraggers won't be able to pwn the libs when they exit the other platforms

[UTUSN]

16. After a superficial sampling of it, my impression is that it is a playground for Celebrity Names.

High profile pundits, who, apart from the aggregated news side, are posting their off-the-clock Deep Thoughts and not-so-deep ones, sort of as their downtime.

As I said: Superficial sampling of mine, first impression. I remember when some Big Names, like David CORN, posted at DU, which afterward evolved into being a more egalitarian,. personal and familylike place. There are surely many distinguished figures in DU, but at Bluesky name status seems to be the primary marker, a place for the big kids to relax.

DU's format is so clean, clear, accessible. In content, the combination of aggregated links to news/information and individuals' personal opinions/insights is a ball of relaxation. Members get to know one another as personally or not according to their own limits.

*** I've opened a few accounts in places - Reddit, Facebook, Instragram, Threads, now Bluesky - that I seldom if ever use and only on an undisclosed identity basis. Other than that I look at a half dozen news websites. Everything else is all DU.

I'll drop in/ to Bluesky as a news outlet. It seems to work the way DU has Groups - with Bluesky categorizing what you see according to your Likes and Feeds. I don't need to post there, might bring new items back to DU as with the other websites.