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The wonders of Bluesky, the Democrat answer to X
American Thinker ^ | 23 Nov, 2024 | Andrea Widburg

Posted on 11/23/2024 4:56:33 AM PST by MtnClimber

For leftists who hate the free exchange of information on Elon Musk’s X, it’s paradise; for the rest of us, it’s the funniest thing ever (and kind of sad, too).

I got curious about Bluesky, the social media platform that Democrats saw as their refuge once Elon Musk had the bad taste to turn X from a censorious leftist redoubt into a free speech platform. Today, I set up an account there, and I was absolutely dazzled. This is leftism unhinged, although for the real purists, like spoiled (and very rich) Hollywood brat, Rob Reiner, Bluesky is still too polluted by non-approved ideas.

Bluesky is a Twitter derivative. In 2019, Twitter did some research into a more decentralized platform that couldn’t be controlled by a single company. That actually sounds like a good idea and one more closely tied to the free market than any other social media platform. However, when Elon Musk purchased Twitter, Twitter severed Bluesky, making it an independent entity.

All might have gone well with Bluesky if it had remained true to the notion of decentralization, which is, of course, the opposite of the leftist love for central control in government and business. However, those Democrats who are offended by free speech announced that Bluesky was their destination of choice. Currently, the site is growing exponentially, but I suspect a lot of the growth comes from people like me, who sign up out of simple curiosity and have no intention of returning.

Why wouldn’t I return? Simple: Bluesky is all about content moderation.

Theoretically, it moderates through crowd-sourcing and AI learning from that crowd-sourcing. But rather than sharing opposing or correct information via community notes, as X does, Bluesky shuts down information the community determines is offensive.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: bluesky; democrats; internet; leftism; socialmedia
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To: Lee'sGhost

It might not last long. The left lives to and enjoys creating conflict. If everyone agrees with each other it won’t be fun for long.


21 posted on 11/23/2024 6:01:03 AM PST by Openurmind
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To: MtnClimber

There’s a guy on Twitter who posts things from that site. It’s Full of pedophiles.


22 posted on 11/23/2024 6:04:01 AM PST by roving (Deplorable MAGA Garbage )
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To: MtnClimber

I look at it like this. It is a handy desktop feature. It is a trashbin to throw all the garbage and hope it gets permanently deleted in the end. Let them go, lets help them go... Click send to trashbin... lol


23 posted on 11/23/2024 6:06:11 AM PST by Openurmind
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To: MtnClimber
Imagine going to a platform because it will censor thought. How evil are these people?
24 posted on 11/23/2024 6:08:36 AM PST by Vision (Woke is communism and it has no place in America. Election Reform Now! Obama is an evildoer.)
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To: roving

Twitter (and FB) is full of fabricated nonsense. It’s the reason I stay here.


25 posted on 11/23/2024 6:12:15 AM PST by AppyPappy (If Hitler were alive today and criticized Trump, would he still be Hitler?)
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To: MtnClimber

Remember 1984? ... Power, is “power over human beings” , but “above all over the mind” The party controls external reality through the control of the mind, and it controls the mind, through the control of language.


26 posted on 11/23/2024 6:12:37 AM PST by antidemoncrat ( )
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To: Lee'sGhost

27 posted on 11/23/2024 6:21:45 AM PST by rlmorel ("A people that elect corrupt politicians are not victims...but accomplices." George Orwell)
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To: MtnClimber
If the state won't make 1984 real, the left will make it real on their own. Then they go into their self-made echo chambers and wonder why Trump won.
28 posted on 11/23/2024 6:29:34 AM PST by Widget Jr (Make 1984 Fiction Again!)
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To: MtnClimber

Air America.

The left’s answer to Rush Limbaugh.

[Will Bluesky survive as long as Air America did? 2004-2010.]


29 posted on 11/23/2024 6:39:44 AM PST by TomGuy
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To: MtnClimber

It will fail like all the others


30 posted on 11/23/2024 6:40:11 AM PST by riri (RFK Fan Girl)
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To: MtnClimber

The left pronounces it blue-sky, (blo͞oˌskī), but I prefer to sound it out like Rooski, as in “Russia, Russia, Russia”!


31 posted on 11/23/2024 6:48:56 AM PST by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
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To: MtnClimber

Sounds like a screamin’ banshee fag and tranny eGay Bar.


32 posted on 11/23/2024 6:51:29 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (This Thanksgiving, spay and neuter your liberal RAT family members.)
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To: Sarcazmo

In in unrelated news Kamala Harris won only in states with no voter id.


33 posted on 11/23/2024 7:21:59 AM PST by datricker (Go Trump/Vance!)
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To: MtnClimber

The result can only be the most mentally ill ideas left on the table. The rest will be considered ‘right wing’ no matter how far left the platform goes. It’s the only logical conclusion.

This could be a new form of entertainment. Grab the popcorn. We haven’t begun to see ‘unhinged’ yet!! The left like to think they’re intellectually superior, except they’re not, they’re just evil and think ‘being different’ must be because they’re so smart....when really, they’re just immature children throwing tantrums against adult ideas. They never grew up.

If you want to know the predictable talking points of the left, just go there.


34 posted on 11/23/2024 7:36:23 AM PST by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: MtnClimber

35 posted on 11/23/2024 7:55:23 AM PST by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: roving

libsOfBluesky on Twitter


36 posted on 11/23/2024 8:08:52 AM PST by bobcat62
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To: MtnClimber

It’s a digital pacifier for whiny little brats.


37 posted on 11/23/2024 8:10:09 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: MtnClimber

Not necessarily. There are some MAGA folks crossing enemy lines to plant the Trump flag on Bluesky.
There’s also a general filter for snowflakes to filter out MAGA accounts.


38 posted on 11/23/2024 9:05:28 AM PST by bobcat62
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To: MtnClimber
Trolling Bluecry is now a popular pastime.


39 posted on 11/23/2024 9:11:37 AM PST by Drew68 (Today I'm thoroughly enjoying eating crow salted with liberal tears. Best meal I've ever had!)
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To: Drew68

That is funny.


40 posted on 11/23/2024 9:12:45 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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