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Slightly related: is Bluesky moderated good enough or do I get lots of rightwing and conspiracy crap like on twitter currently?

I‘d really love to have some more civilized hub again that isn’t full of hate and anti-intellectualism.

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I think it is still too small and people seem quite nice there. But, that has its drawbacks, as I keep returning to Twitter due to the slow migration in the recent months.

It is a shame, as it seems like a nice alternative that has some cool ideas.

It seems a lot nicer than Twitter. Though I'd wonder how much of that is just that it's invite-only right now. I haven't really gotten into it, for a variety of reasons (happy enough with Mastodon for most stuff, no decent client apps, vaguely suspicious of the involvement of Dorsey) but it seems... fine?

Haven't poked my head in there in a while, but in my experience it was more the opposite where much of the discourse is dominated by tech-left influencer types and their followers who migrated from Twitter. Choose your echo chamber I guess.

Are you assuming that hate and anti-intellectualism are exclusively a rightwing thing?

On Twitter, the place that hired Tucker Carlson after Fox News dumped him? Yeah it is. No need for "both sides"-ing on this one.

One example is hardly proof of an absolute though. Assuming all conspiracy or anti-intellectual thought comes from one side because Tucker Carlson is a huge logical misstep in my opinion

Not exclusively, but on the mainstream internet in 2023? Yeah, more or less, bar a few tankies.

It's anti-intellectual and uncivilized, but not because of rightwing conspiracy content. There is a strong culture of intolerance and censorship of viewpoints that diverge from the norm.

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