The only time I ever want to post on #BlueSky is to respond to misinformation, and BlueSky has no shortage of that.
I just want to say, the Mastodon community doesn't have this issue. You folks stay grounded for the most part and while I may not post as much as I used to, this might be the only place I can tolerate anymore.
I just try to remember: Bluesky is filled with people who thought Mastodon was too hard, and who mostly didn't leave Twitter until years after the Musk takeover.
@Alex Who? Whisper it in my ear. Or just tell me, it wasn’t Dan Pfeiffer, was it?
@MoiraEve I have a high-profile user putting me on blast about this now, so I might as well share what I was talking about.
Giving free PR to a company for something they didn't do, and keeping it up even after people in the comments tell you that you are wrong. Sounds like a Democratic Strategist to me.
@Alex I know it seems to be many years, but the takeover happened just two years ago. Or two and a half, give or take.
@Alex To be fair, Mastodon has less disinformation because there are few people here. We don't know how Fediverse will cope with a marketing campaign by a corporation or an information attack by an authoritarian state.
If Mastodon becomes popular, more naive people will come here, more people who spread unverified information. This is normal
@Distante We do know how the Fediverse will react to a marketing campaign by a corporation: most instances have defederated Threads.
I'm not saying that misinformation doesn't happen here, but it certainly doesn't succeed here. I don't see posts stating something false with dozens of users agreeing in the comments like I do on Bluesky and Threads.
@Alex Every social media has this issue, there is no exception
@Alex yes, when I read on Bluesky that Mastodon was the Linux of social media (in a negative way), I knew I was in the right place.
@VE7WYC Using "Linux" as a pejorative. Yeah, not a place for me.
Just fell to temptation and quoted a Democratic Strategist for Obama and Biden who was doing a misinformation about corporate responsibility while giving a multibillion dollar corporation free PR for a thing they never did.
That post, like everything I post there, will end up deleted as I convince myself again that I want no participation on #BlueSky.