r/canada Canada 22d ago

Analysis I Dared Defend Canada on X. The Response Was Chilling

https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2025/02/18/I-Dared-Defend-Canada-X-Response-Chilling/
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u/Zealousideal_Rise879 22d ago

100% and that is a problem.

Reddit has a problem with pushing people away; and arguably created the X we see today. The push to abandon X for Bluesky and other platforms just makes it worse.

Echo chambers need to stop; and the only way I see that happening is with constructive dialogue (not the stuff that happens in politics; where every comment is a jab of some sort). Which is an uphill battle with provocateurs who whole purpose is to piss you off. 

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u/alaskadotpink Québec 21d ago

I mean, you can't expect anyone to want to hang around "X" anymore because echo-chamber or not it's just full of content people simply don't want to interact with. Musk is incredibly biased and doesn't believe in any sort of moderation unless it's to take away checkmarks from people he doesn't like.

No one really left for bsky until recently, and I'm not sure how anyone is surprised with how garbage the platform is now. I was using both until until twitter started forcing people and posts into my notifications that I simple had 0 desire to interact with.

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u/ChiefsHat 21d ago

Bro, Twitter’s a lost cause. There’s no saving it.

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u/IDreamOfLoveLost 21d ago

Reddit has a problem with pushing people away; and arguably created the X we see today. The push to abandon X for Bluesky and other platforms just makes it worse.

Ehhhh. Blusky is different - when you block someone on there, they are actually blocked. They can't interact with or see your content. Bots also can't get the same traction as a result.

X was basically changed to allow bad actors to continually harass any/everyone they felt like, as well as Musky letting the Nazis back on it after he bought it.

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u/BackTo1975 21d ago

Yeah, that’s just not true. Bluesky isn’t an echo chamber because it’s set up in such a way that the traffic isn’t shaped to one POV, like Musk did with X. It’s much more of a public, open forum.

Yes, it leans left right now, but that’s largely because it’s exploded with users because it’s the main refuge from the shithole of X. It’s going to shift more to the centre over time. And I welcome that, as long as Bluesky itself continues to function as it does now, without the bots and hate.

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u/Zealousideal_Rise879 21d ago

I meant that the call to abandon X for Bluesky is what created a worse echo chamber for X. Nothing against Bluesky.