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mrtksn ◴[] No.42150650[source]
A year ago, Bluesky was an empty place, I wanted to use it but there wasn't anything. Now its bustling, there are interesting posts and they receive thousands of likes.

On the other hand Twitter still feels like where things are actually happening but more and more feels like they are about to start terminating anyone with eyeglasses.

I was there when the Digg exodus happened, it doesn't feel like that. It's something else. It feels like Twitter becoming a monoculture and others are having their monoculture somewhere else because Bluesky also doesn't feel diverse to me - more like the opposite of Twitter.

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timmg ◴[] No.42152032[source]
> It feels like Twitter becoming a monoculture and others are having their monoculture somewhere else because Bluesky also doesn't feel diverse to me - more like the opposite of Twitter.

Generally, it seems to me that a lot of people are saying, basically, "I don't want to engage in a social network that isn't and echo chamber of my beliefs."

I find it incredibly sad. But it does feel like the direction society is moving toward.

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hresvelgr ◴[] No.42153048[source]
Mono-cultures are forming because as a whole, we are becoming less tolerant. Tolerance is the ultimate challenger of belief because it is gentle. No extremist is going to change their ways because people keep yelling at them to change. It'll be because they see the people they revile living perfectly fine lives and willing to accept them as they are.

"B-but they believe these morally reprehensible things!" So what? Have we not all hurt people and been the villain in someone else's life? People get lost along the way. Show them grace. We can't force people into different ways of living, but we can show them.

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1. paulgb ◴[] No.42153756[source]
I don’t think of myself as less tolerant, but I’ve definitely become less patient with the qanon-level discourse that has come to dominate the reply section on twitter, which used to be a place for interesting conversation.

Maybe somebody being patient with them will change their mind, but that’s not what I want to spend my time online doing.

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2. account42 ◴[] No.42171798[source]
> I don’t think of myself as less tolerant

Most people don't think of themselves as [insert negative trait].