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Normal people come here to get away from the hate rhetoric.

I guess it helps when wealthy amero-christian fascists can just purchase it out-right so the bloated toothless incestuous pedophile war-mongers can have something to do on the toilet at church. This was pretty much the take that got both of my Tiktoks banned.

Also, we don’t want to hear hairbrained babble.

Why can’t the right compete in the marketplace of ideas? Why do they need special treatment?

Side note, there is no "radical left." Positions that get demonized as "socialist" and "radical" are THE MAINSTREAM. The policies proposed by AOC, Bernie, Mamdani etc. are those of broad MAJORITIES of Americans across all demographics and indeed across party lines. Thread. bsky.app/profile/idio...

The right can only exist in a vacuum or echo chamber.

They took their viewpoints on consent and decided it needed to also apply to their political opinions

After a decade of dealing with those people acting a monkey on other socials, we deserve some peace

I still have an X account, but I've tuned it to only show stuff about engineering, manufacturing and AI. All the political stuff is gone; if something creeps in I kill it. Bsky is where I go to relax and enjoy discussions outside the engineering space.

They want internet DEI

Call me crazy but I don't want to make nice with toxic nazis.

Smartest thing I’ve read today

The fact is it's one thing to bring real reasonable arguments and points, but another to bring hatred and disrespect. I think BlueSky wants to bring back some of that without letting people be overwhelmed with trolls. I've notably seen a lot less here than X.

Its not its liberal coded and liberalism is right wing

...or why can't the right exist in a social media environment without gaslighting, disparagement and conspiracy theories ...

Is Bluesky actually left-coded? Lots of progressive accounts are banned for mundane things while Singal and the "Dept of War" accounts are fine. The head of Trust & Safety bullied a survivor to protect a pedo-supporter. Just because there are more Left people here doesn't equate left-coded.

apparently those on the right aren't very tolerant, something something Jaysus new testamenty. Have noted that each time those of us on "the left" develop a means of sharing information and keeping receipts, the Right either buys it or tries to ruin/discredit it. lets continue to be Nazi-free ty

Attention has become a commodity and they only know one way to produce.

Agree!!! I am curious as to the psychopathy of their anger, rage, hatred, etc., and what they actually achieve by verbally abusing others. Maybe it's just groupthink.

Bluesky and critical thinking go together like bread and butter, while over on (Twitter) its like.......

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This is the only social media I’ll use because I’m not bombarded by right wing bs or ads trying to get me to buy stuff. Oh and of course the people are mostly real and decent. No wonder the right hates it!

Imagine existing only to troll and piss people off. Yikes. ODD is crazy in adults, and it operates the same under the alternate acronym-- MAGA.

Or, why can't they exist in a social media environment without a reasonable percentage of people wanting to be anywhere but where they are?

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Why do all the sciences and courts where you can't just lie out of your ass without consequences have a leftwing bias?

John, those days are over. This party is something else entirely.

My question for them would be why are "X" and Truth Social so hardcore Nazi? Where even the AI GROK is a hardcore Nazi?

Because they’ve chosen to be constant mean, antagonistic arseholes as a life choice.

I love the fact that the right wing trolls are no where to be found in my feed.

Yes!

they live for the rage bait, open fighting and callouts. bsky culture encouraging block/mute over engaging and qrt piling made the ecosystem uninhabitable for them. like an infection.

Left and right is a very crude framework. BlueSky is very good for serious accounts run by actual scientists, historians, etc; not at all for political debate. And the labelling system is weird and unhelpful.

If you need to force an audience to listen to you then you have nothing worth listening to.

They've got nothing good to talk about or it quickly changes to your a jerk or asshole etc..

2nd real question:: Why do Republicans have to gerrymander or rig in some other way to win an election?

Left-coded? How about human encoded? How about empathy encoded? How about helping others encoded? If the right-coded had a brain, or a heart……there wouldn’t be a problem.

Same issue with journalism. The American right has been allowed to go so far off the rails because journalism assumes there must be a set of legitimate right-wing politics backed by a real electorate, when actually it's just wealthy folks want to pay less taxes.

Excellent point!

I simply block anyone who utters anything pro Trump. Unlike X and Meta, blocking actually works on Bluesky. If they feel unwanted, they crawl back to their X and Meta environment.

Because this is not "discourse": "I believe in Universal Healthcare." "Yer a Communist pedophile!"

Reality is left-coded

And trolls. The commenters news feeds just never change. The uninformed unable to resist the compulsion to say something crappy about someone barely associated with the story.

They need tech like palantir and cambridge analytica, all principle social media platforms, and all mainstream media. Otherwise the fall. It is literally the filthy rich trying to kill the world that needs to be.

The real question, "Why can't the right consider what people have to say without hate and judgment?"

This!

Reality is left coded. People on the right believe in easily verifiable falsehoods. Facts show neoliberal policies only result in the concentration of wealth, anthropogenic climate change isn't debatable, racist/sexist policy is bad for your society/economy. Why does anyone believe any of that shit?

Because they are a small voice unless they have a megaphone to increase their volume. Because free speech is their speech, not ours. Because they demand an audience and have no idea how to earn one.

Elon knew X was controlled by foreign bots when he over paid for it. It's hard to believe companies still advertise on it.

What I find funny is when conservatives claim that they've been silenced so I ask: "so you were silenced for discussing free trade? balanced budget? return to a gold standard? return to free banking?" only to find that these conservatives get rather coy about what led them to being marginalised.

Their worldview needs to be able to see itself from the dominant, superior, winningest POV. Reality is biased against that - nobody always wins. Nobody is pure. Nobody is perfect. So they do everything they can to force that illusion onto as many people as possible to maintain their grand illusion.

This is so real

Spot on.

Why was it that when on X, most comments I posted got only likes from bot generated accounts promoting porn?

Here is a great podcast episode on China, TikTok and algorithms. It also discusses a recent Bertelsmann study that fully supports your statement. For your information, the podcast is unfortunately in German.

they’re welcome to return to the cesspools of X and (Un)Truth Social rather than thinking they have some right to dominate all platforms. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Hmmm,I don't think bluesky is left coded,I think the people are just more intelligent,unlike the bots and paid trolls on x and other sites

This is apparent on Reddit as well. In most subreddits, rw comments tend to be downvoted into oblivion. Nobody wants to hear their shit.

Because most people that support Republicans are way too stupid to follow post current events. It’s much easier for billionaires to pay a few people to make thousands of posts.

Not all that left coded. Just ask trans people and those being exterminated in Gaza...

the right wing is an unpopular political minority which can only persist through gaming of any system they’re part of. in a true democratic system the right wing would cease to exist.

I was literally just thinking about this today. Never trust any social media platform that doesn't allow you to dislike things. Even in a form of a workable block option. That platform will 100% always be taken over by Nazis.

Thank God for the right side of politics.

they are so coddled on TwitterXXX

Hate breeds hate

They have to buy out and do hostile takeovers because they cannot compete

have you ever tried to look at "X"?? it is pure BS and everything is far right wing crap no facts just propagandaaganda

I wish we could separate the concept of free speech from the ability to peddle lies and hate. Just as yelling FIRE in a crowded space can be deadly, so can shouting filth about categories of people. Also, anyone reporters follow around can’t be deprived of free speech merely by being shouted down.

They have X. They can stay there.

Because the 'right' is an artificial construct. The default way of being has been labeled as 'left' but it's just not being an asshole.

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No, the correct question is, “Why do we have social media platforms that cater to one end of the spectrum or the other?”

Great question

The 'right' is almost never correct. It's not fair that we even call them 'right'.

It's the same question as "Why did the Roman Republic have stiff competition between the party that wanted to expand rights for ordinary citizens and the one that preferred keeping more power in the nobility?" It's because the voting system was skewed in favor of the latter.

Given a lot of those people think Keir Starmer is left wing, they just see left-coded places 24/7.

When left ideals are considered communist and hate filled and attacked at every corner, it becomes redundant and tiring to hear. So, it is enjoyed relief to silence the scum spewing slop crapping out their mouths for a change

Good question. And it IS left-coded but there’s a certain type of leftist that doesn’t like it here either. Maybe it’s too civil or people are too gentle or something for anyone with a hankering for extremely ugly disputes online. (Though people do get pretty damn snarky here.)

I've been here for a year or so now, and see very few left wing posts. Bluesky seems to me to be primarily mainstream Democrats, much like MSNBC is just Clinton TV. There are a few though, and I try to be one of them.

Blocking is pretty instant and guaranteed. Only once has anyone come back to me, and I think that was my fault!

Gee, I dunno.... probably because Bluesky is social media for sane people, not bots...

The right cannot exist without a punching bag. They hate each other and they only get along over their mutual hatred of the left.

Evergreen Free Speech XKCD:

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You always have the option of leaving.

I think part of the reason they’re worse rageaholics now even though their guy won is because they aren’t valid unless we pay attention to them. There’s a lonely little doctor in New Jersey who is still obsessed with me and I left Twitter a year ago.

I don't think this is actually true, Truth Social has about as many users as Bluesky.

And the block button is more thorough here

it's left coded because the right harassed people so much on Twitter we migrated here.

BS is great because we have a choice not to listen to the crazy. We have a choice not to have that pushed on us by an algorithm. If that makes me/us leftist....I'm okay with that. This XKCD often comes to mind

Not going to lie- on Twitter I had maybe 1K followers after a decade. Threads I got up to I think 4-5k before they fucked w their algo after year 1. Here my own rantings and spouts into the void…I have 8k+ of people who follow me w zero algo. So what are those people paying X for?!

I have seen so much hatred here for any ideas but Democrat party ideas.

Yup

Too true.

Algorithmic assistance including - as we briefly saw exposed on X - overseas troll farms. Why can't the right exist without troll farms?

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Excellent point. Once again, the power of the right completely depends on America’s first and most comprehensive infrastructure of favoritism: built-in advantages and rationalizations for white males.

🎯 they are, to be precise “anti social” so it tracks they can’t navigate a social platform like everyone else

Why are there no bot farms pumping out the left wing agenda repeating the same message over thousands of fake accounts? Because the left ideology is already popular and it doesn’t need AI and algorithms to get there. It’s natural and organic to want to live and let live.Something the right isn’t.

If there’s anything they hate more than us, it’s being ignored.

Awwww are the conservatives angy we can block them and they can't use bots to force them down our throats? I think they are. I think it's their bedtime so let's get them their binky and sleepsack

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Bluesky is "left-coded"?! If having a timeline full of cats and pottery is "left-coding" then I am the most Trotskyite mofo you ever had the pleasure of meeting :)

Because they’re cowards who can’t fact check their rhetoric? 💙✌️🇺🇸

Besides.. Bluesky hasn't been "left coded" for a year now. But those who say that probably think shitlibs are "the left"

Isn‘t one of the first rules of right wing authoritarianism to control the media and the message?

It’s not even left coded, it’s decency coded.

Yes, because the Right and the MAGAs post the most ignorant bullshit I've seen in quite a while. I never realized this country was filled with so many stupid, ignorant, inbred imbeciles who are willing to shout it out loud!

Their thoughts and voices are so weak they can only persist within a tailored echo chamber.

What is left coded? I’m assuming it’s politics? (I’m not trying to rage bait, I am being genuine)

Being kind is obviously a liberal thing. Narcissists and fascists hate nice.

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I go to X for getting people engaged, and discussions. When I want to make posts for the record but without anybody saying anything just politely ignoring me, Bluesky is very comfortable for that. In general the Left is all about agreeing with each other and the party line, which keeps them quiet.

My question is why does the right hate truth and common sense?

I block every MAGA I come across. I no longer have any interest in what they have to say. Things are far darker now than the last time.

And not left-coded so much as sane-coded. So tired of sane, polite, and not being an a-hole as inherently "left" because the other side thinks they get to police manners and behaviours of those they disagree with, while effectively being socially feral themselves and expecting others to accept it.

Block lists where one mass blocks people based on someone else's assertion that the people listed are Bad and Wrong, without even checking or knowing who they are blocking or any context about the person, are part of the reason social media sites like Bluesky become echo chambers. 👍🏻

I believe I should be able to go to a sanctuary away from the crazies, many who have been proven to be overseas agitators. The right wants to begrudge us of everything.

It’s like a hobby for them

I've enjoyed this thread & found many like-minded individuals to follow. Thankyou. 🥰

Yeah, the question really is: *Why do we get blocked on BlueSky when we come here to troll?* With the reply: *Your question contains its own answer.* I still have an urge to respond to obvious trolls -- but I ignore the urge and block them immediately anyway.

100% Love your books, BTW.

What I’m noticing is a growing hostility toward journalists on this app. More people seem eager to dismiss them for ‘not standing up,’ as if the job is performance art instead of reporting.

Folks are looking for a place to have serious scientific and professional conversations without massive bot farms. That’s the coding :)

Right. The minute I spot them on here I block them. I’m not interested in arguing with morons.

Because without the attention and the conflict they have nothing. They’re so miserable they need to fight and act superior.

Bingo

"left coded" Huh.... I'm "left coded". Oh well...

Only so many people are willing to put up with hate and lies in their feed. It’s one of the few media someone can curate to their own tastes.

Because they think there’s a problem if they’re not being obeyed.

#Bluesky ist not 'left-coded' - Just a far right defamation concept: The real question is 'Why can't the right not exist in a democratic mid-coded social media environment'

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Wisdom from the burrito king. Spot on.

😂 Perfect!

Also: why do people have to complain about Bluesky even if it is left? Anyone whining about Truth Social? Why? Why would that be? Does the media complain that X’s algorithms are openly manipulated by a billionaire n@z! Why? Why the heck not?

Why are X and Fox News do far right-coded?

Because they are very flawed people and quite prideful. They don't want to admit that they don't understand science, finances, and societal issues. So they pour themselves into snake oil salesmen who say things they like. because they would rather be lied to than accept the truth.

Yes yes 👍🏻

love this

Excellent question

THAT’s the question they refuse to consider because the answer is 😬 Den of vipers party of ONE.

Also, perhaps "left-coded" is closer to the actual truth than right-wing folks can admit.

It’s the oldest rule in the book, John: A vampire cannot enter your home unless invited. Algorithms were the artificial invitation that let them bypass our spiritual door locks. Bluesky just fixed the latch. Now we see who can actually survive on their own life force and who was just feeding.

Normal folks: Let's adopt some of the same policies the rest of the developed world has Corporate media: Leftist anarchy! #MedicareForAll #PublicTransit #WealthTax

Republicans may not know this, but Democrats don't speak Trump. Trump just babbles high speed chicken scratch that has to be really, really, really, fast. Otherwise, his endless lies, disinformation, misinformation, and propaganda will overtake the speed of his forked tongue. Spineless Despot

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Oh I know this one. It’s because their understanding of ‘free speech’ is MANDATORY LISTENING To them Only Forever. They believe they have an inalienable right to an audience and a microphone, always.

Go figure, but bigotry, racism, xenophobic nationalism, and outright nazism is NOT overwhelmingly popular.

Exactly!

Because the right doesn’t have any interest in having meaningful conversations about solutions to societal issues. They just want to “own the libs”, which just means trolling by blurting out disproven lies and hate while having the mentality of an edgy 14 year old boy to get a rise out of people.

Perhaps an equally important question is: Why is favoring rule of law, governance for the good of all, equal opportunity, honesty (anti-corruption), and justice considered to be leftist?

In mean as far as I know they’re surviving here perfectly happily, I just almost never see them? 🤷‍♀️

South Park got it right with the death of woke depressing cartman cuz he wasn’t special anymore. They require an audience. If a tree falls in forest 🌳 can MAGA hear it?

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Their whole deal is to use the force of government, industry and now academia to confer upon themselves the respect and legitimacy they were unable to earn but feel they are owed nonetheless.

Toddlers do not take well to being ignored. I'm afraid conservative media folks suffer a similar lack of maturity.

We're all still free to speak. And there are (and will always be) consequences for speech that harms others.

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I see A FEW of the right on here-usually antagonistic, belligerent. I AM willing to listen to decent arguments that do not include; “libtards are trying to tell us how to live”, or “DEI is just a way to take OUR rights away”, or “the left wants to make me gay”. I have no time to argue with nonsense.

They need their bots backing them or else nobody actually cares about their insane opinion🤣

Why do the vast majority of people on "right coded" social media need to be fake? It's mostly bots trying to pick fights with bots now.

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Lack of critical thinking. Simple. They are hive minded.

There isn't, and there never will be any money in being nice to each other.

We're not left coded. We're human coded. Independent coded. We're common sense coded I can see how this is interpreted as left-coded. I do not think they are MAGA or TRUMPUKINS (or what's BS it is) that's the problem.

This situation implies a huge negative impact on public perception. If both sides cannot coexist, the public on each side suffers from a bubble perception in that only its side's reality exists.

Haha, yes!

Amen... If they are so "mainstream" why can't they flourish here?

Right wingers need their safe space

Because whenever they quite literally don't practice what they preach (love thy neighbor, Christian values whatever), they're just putting down anyone who isn't a straight white male.

It's called Bluesky for a reason, folks.

The right constantly requires affirmative action, whether it’s algorithmic, the electoral college, or the United States Senate.

Conservatives aren’t interested in conversation qua conversation. They need their preferences reaffirmed first before anyone else is allowed their own liberties.

Fair question.

They only have one idea

I am supportive of everyone being able to use a service with an open protocol and APIs that let 3rd party clients flourish (unlike Twitter) I can use Bluesky in my Linux terminal, good luck doing that with Twitter

Dead on.

Lots of righties feel entitled to everyone's attention, and get mad when other people refuse to give it to them. When you spend years arguing in bad faith - dishonestly and without regard for logic or evidence - people tend to be reflexively unwilling to grant you attention.

Because they can't live with being ignored, with being a sub-culture, people can opt in. They want to be the norm. Because "You can do that, but i won't do that" is perceived as limiting their options, it's perceived as invading their space.

I'm a bit of a Canadian internet pioneer; and I am so sorry. We built a Stupidity machine.