https://archive.ph/oFnou

I haven't read the article, nor do I know anything about Bluesky, but let me guess: the social media echo chamber in question is a conservative echo chamber.

EDIT: I was wrong! It is mostly comprised of progressive refugees from X.

See https://archive.ph/oFnou

I started on Mastodon around the time the Reddit protests happened and would say it has a lot of highly negative left wing nuts. I used to be bothered by "gender activists" who I've been able to keep at bay with blocks and filters but now the people I find obnoxious are the ones who have built their identity around having a "disability" and how it makes them morally better than "abled" people. (Blessedly I don't need to deal with right-wing nuts on Mastodon, but I meet some in real life)

I have to deal with emotional negativity sometimes from people I care about but strangers no. I immediately unfollow people who boost emotionally negative stuff and mute liberally.

I post a similar stream of content to Mastodon like what I post to HN

https://mastodon.social/@UP8

I am very interested in political science and politics outside the US, if I want to read about the Presidental election though I will go to The Economist and 538 and maybe Google News if there is breaking news (e.g. more shots fired at Trump) I will unfollow anyone who posts Kamala Harris memes (won't help her win.)

I absolutely need an API for posting on any site I join because I get a little help from my friend YOShInOn (look it up in the HN search) I have thought about Bluesky, Instagram and Threads in that order. For whatever reason Instagram won't let me create an account even though I think my photos would do well there. (I never did anything obnoxious on a Meta property, honest!) That rules out Threads but I have to admit that if I ran a social network it would look like Threads in that I'd de-prioritize polarized politics.