Sometimes I visit BlueSky and... it's not that folk on there are bad in any profound way, but I always leave the place with a sort of unquantifiable misanthropy. Something about the place just makes me want to escape to the wilds. I don't know whether it's the omnipresent Americanism or the fact that all posts take the form of a critique on a critique on a critique, but the atmosphere is just crushingly claustrophobic. It seems like everybody is desperate to convince themselves that they're part of some intellectual priesthood. Just exhausting stuff.
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@jsbarretto I've felt this too. It feels like people are trying to score points off one another. I described it once as 'viral "oh, snap!" engagement.' https://stevendbrewer.com/weirdos-posting-stuff-to-social-media/
@jsbarretto @mastodonmigration It’s all very depressing there. When I check “Discover”, it’s typically just bad news upon more bad news, with a lot of people chiming in with bad news about the bad news.
At least here, there’s much more conversational diversity.
@jsbarretto I also treat BlueSky as write-only. Can't pin it down to the exact things, but I definitely don't feel relaxed when browsing BlueSky (though I do have extensive mute settings here that I don't have on Bluesky)
@lesley I leave feeling like I need some low-grade therapy and I don't really know why. Nobody on there is especially disagreeable or unpleasant. Are you on there for the reach, or?
@jsbarretto Yeah. Many people I know only use bluesky
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