For a very long time the site was very tiny and by net standards - unimportant. Recently after Elon fucked up and got Twitter banned in Brazil - the number of users jumped by many millions. But the vast majority are Brazilians and/or pop culture posters. The new accounts must be sort of drowning out what I assume are the few hundred top lib accounts that do talk about voting and how cool democrats are all day. Their posts are greatly aided by Bluesky's moderation which is nuclear. Libs use it - cough - liberally. Not a joke. Libs - the top ones or any of them can go "Nah, nah, nah," as much as they want.

Some of them boast about blocking "bad" accounts. And from their perspective - that included me. If somebody blocked me or muted me - my convos to them died. Any reposts or quotes I did from their accounts disappeared off my profile. In my first account - I had nature photographers block or mute me because I assume they had a look at my profile and they saw my posts poking fun of Biden and they got mad. Sad.

In my new account - so far I don't follow anybody. Not following anybody should make the site 100% unusable but I use skyfeed.app do make my own feeds. And I'll never mention politics. I don't want them blocking or muting me. I I want to see their idiotic posts so I can share their stupid posts here. Hexbear is sort of my DarkBluesky.

[–] bortsampson@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I was mostly joking about the honeypot part but it is interesting how it seems designed to be self sustaining bubble for people. From the way you describe it, it sounds like the perfect place for the "their all russian bots" libs.

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago

I never expected Bluesky to be worse than Reddit. I sometimes use my first account to post if I just can't stop myself but it's pointless to try to talk to them. It's pretty funny and pretty damn rich when I see Bluesky libs complaining about how it's pointless to talk to republicans or that republicans live in a their own reality. Bluesky is an echo chamber and the libs work to keep it that way.

[–] Frank@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago

Lol it's even in the name. You can build a nice little ideological wall around yourself, lie back, stare at the clear blue sky, and think "Isn't this nice?"

[–] Frank@hexbear.net 9 points 1 month ago

Yeah, Brazillian bluesky is cool because I don't speak or read Portuguese so idk what they're talking about so it doesn't make me mad.