City accounts on bluesky

[Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese]

Or folk desperate for followers whoring themselves on a thread saying “follow me”. Fuck knows how this thread is in the main forum.

Anyroad so is twitter now for the right wing folk and blue sky for the left wing folk? Is that it? Nowt like a divided society fixing itself by nattering in an echo chamber.

Exactly that mate. There seems to be a bit of a post Nov 5 flounce going on. Everyone of that ilk will then end up on bluesky in an imaginary world they like better and where they all agree with each other. Twitter will become even less balanced too.
Instead of two frothing mobs howling at each other it'll be two separate echo chambers - a much more powerful tool for radicalisation and extremism.

 

[metalblue]

Exactly that mate. There seems to be a bit of a post Nov 5 flounce going on. Everyone of that ilk will then end up on bluesky in an imaginary world they like better and where they all agree with each other. Twitter will become even less balanced too.
Instead of two frothing mobs howling at each other it'll be two separate echo chambers - a much more powerful tool for radicalisation and extremism.

Miss MB says her generation is the most divisive ever mate.

 

[Gazza]

This seems to be a thread of those that believe the MSM and those that don't.

 

[urban genie]

This seems to be a thread of those that believe the MSM and those that don't.

which is which?

do tell

 

[Blue_Lightsaber]

May I +1 on this? Just finding out via LinkedIn that a lot of folks I read for business and non-City insight have departed X in the last week so I am ready to join up unless there are compelling reasons not to. Never going back to X.

Bluesky is at 17 million+ and rapidly growing....loving the ability to block shit and never have to listen to that negativity from Elon, magats, farrage brexiters. The use of blocklists is great, filter out all sorts of shit from your feed and your not given the shit that makes you angry.

Deplatforming works (it's part of the reason musk bought twitter)

Network effect seems to have kicked in for Bluesky. I can basically see it sucking users and engagement from X in real time. Now that it's reached critical mass it will accelerate.

Most of us don't want to be in a right wing echo chamber since we're not right wingers. We want to discuss City without those right wing talking points/ political hit jobs forced down our throats.

Anecdotally it's become the first social app I open now instead of X/Twitter and a lot of people I know are basically the same now and I'd be willing to pay for a premium tier also which is defiantly not true for the Musk ruined Twitter.

 

[Gazza]

which is which?

do tell

Only you can decide that by your allegiance to one or the other platform.

 

[Blue_Lightsaber]

BTW.. small conspiracy theory..

X/ Twitter has really given "plastics" a bad name. I think everyone that has met a plastic has come across feeling.. nice people.. follow City from afar.. visit once a year, put their money into the club.. raise City's profile overseas.

But on X/ Twitter.. it's like INSTANT FOOTBALL EXPERTS - JUST ADD WATER.

Like how could City fans think retarded shit like that at times.. but it's just bots/ trolls looking for engagement to up their numbers/ social media profiles. Those accounts probably never actually make a trip to the Etihad anyways!

 

[Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese]

Bluesky is at 17 million+ and rapidly growing....loving the ability to block shit and never have to listen to that negativity from Elon, magats, farrage brexiters. The use of blocklists is great, filter out all sorts of shit from your feed and your not given the shit that makes you angry.

Deplatforming works (it's part of the reason musk bought twitter)

Network effect seems to have kicked in for Bluesky. I can basically see it sucking users and engagement from X in real time. Now that it's reached critical mass it will accelerate.

Most of us don't want to be in a right wing echo chamber since we're not right wingers. We want to discuss City without those right wing talking points/ political hit jobs forced down our throats.

Anecdotally it's become the first social app I open now instead of X/Twitter and a lot of people I know are basically the same now and I'd be willing to pay for a premium tier also which is defiantly not true for the Musk ruined Twitter.

I think the ability to de-platform and block people and opinions you don't like is crucial to the well being of a lot of twitter users and this is what they have not enjoyed under the musk regime. His ludicrous stance seems to be that they will only remove content that actually breaks the law, but it seems he thinks it's fine for people to read things they don't agree with. This will be the ruin of twitter which previously would remove users that didn't comply with right minded social norms.

 

[urban genie]

Only you can decide that by your allegiance to one or the other platform.

I am now on both so no allegence to eitgher.

Who are led by the MSM? as blusky has been mainly promted through twitter users talking to each other, whatsapp friend groups and word of mouth.

not even seen it on the news, if a fellow blue hadn't told me and other berts, then I would know fuck all about it, samet his thread also led me there.

Not sure the MSM has anthing to do with it, tiredness with advets, feeds you never wanted and pornbots have led many to get fed up, the migration isn't all american politics centric, and many will stay on both.

Seems some are are trying to create a story and about left versus right maybe that is true for the yanks but not people here, really sick of us being dragged into/associated with american bullshit and fuckwittery.

I joined to talk to mates and follow my interests. beyond tha it is just another thing that pings and I swipe ignore to if I am busy.

and to be clear as a socialist this stops me having to have not only right wing cranks but also moronic left wing ones mither me, I won't have to hear oakenshots bullshit or one fucking idiototic progrssive calling women terfs for wanting a safe space, there are many cunts on both sides, again I can choose to not suffer them

 

[urban genie]

I think the ability to de-platform and block people and opinions you don't like is crucial to the well being of a lot of twitter users and this is what they have not enjoyed under the musk regime. His ludicrous stance seems to be that they will only remove content that actually breaks the law, but it seems he thinks it's fine for people to read things they don't agree with. This will be the ruin of twitter which previously would remove users that didn't comply with right minded social norms.

I am not sure it is more even if you say not interested or irrelevent it still turns up 2 days later.

twitter was sometimes echo chambery but you could still engage with other opinions without it being forced upon you.

musk let any old shite be foisted on you even if you previously fucked it off.