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Can Anyone Tell Me What Bluesky Is All About?
I’m wondering if anyone can tell me what Bluesky is all about. It sounds to me like when the MAGA crowd said they were going to leave Facebook and Twitter. Though to be fair to MAGA, they were leaving other social media platforms because they were being censored, whereas those signing up for Bluesky seem to be leaving Facebook and Twitter because those platforms are not adequately censoring others.
I imagine it is a place filled with AI videos showing Emmanual Goldstein and other enemies of the people, as pronounced by Big Brother, in degrading circumstances. In order to keep the patients calm, no dissenting voices would be permitted, and conversation would be limited to how ridiculous and bad Emmanual Goldstein and his ilk really are. There would be approved videos and censored videos, and nobody really knows who decides which is which, but all of the patients are absolutely sure that whoever it is that is making the decisions is worthy of their utmost trust.
The name Bluesky speaks to me of a sanitarium for people with nerve conditions where people dressed in whites and pastels walk along neatly-trimmed gardens and are given regular doses of blissenex and zombitol. Where tranquil music is played in the visitor’s rooms and the staff speak in dulcet tones so as not to disquiet anyone. It seems to me the sort of place from which the Eloi…