yeah. that was my main point -- not that his post was unimpeachable (few short-form social posts are!) but that there's an attack-dog mentality prevalent on bluesky that is not reserved for people who actually deserve it
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It feels a bit like Mastodon, and to a certain extent, Threads: a small, but vocal and very toxic, minority has very strict ideas about what the platform should be, and any idea that moves away even a little bit from their views is treated as an existential danger that has to be eradicated
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I love Bluesky, but this kind of extreme tribalism is really beyond me We're not fighting against a planetary invasion by hostile aliens, we're (allegedly) grown-ups discussing, sometimes with poor arguments, a social media platform
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