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jl6 ◴[] No.42150608[source]
The true rival to X is not using social media at all. If you’re mad at your Skinner box, switching bubbles won’t improve your life.
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1. cmxch ◴[] No.42150790[source]
Correct.

Essentially you’re switching one filter bubble for another filter bubble that makes it harder for any contrary opinion to pierce it.

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2. downWidOutaFite ◴[] No.42150836[source]
The horde of right wing blue checks that dominate all popular political tweets is not a filter bubble. It is a user-hostile feature that makes organic political interactions impossible on the platform. It turns a peer-to-peer network into top-down broadcast.
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3. mnau ◴[] No.42152357[source]
In days of LLM, 99 out of 100 users are likely bots. That is probably also true for bluesky.

Like it or hate it, spending money is about the only semi-reliable defense against boting.