Social media is traveling in its sectarian phase

On the first of September, the author and statistical, Nate Silver A, wrote After x Diagnosis of a new case: “Blueskyism”, named after the decentralized social network that appeared as a competitor on Twitter. According to silver, Blueskyism embodies a new ideology consisting of “all characteristics that make progressive inaccurate for ordinary people” – the same characteristics, and also argues silver, which prevents democrats from recovering electoral reconciliation. As with any good social media, silver has multiplied at a later time, and surpassed the concept in its news message, Silver. Bluesky, designed to be a non -toxic social network, was flooded with the “aggressive police of the opposition”, “moral micropanics”, and a vehicle derived from its academics and experts. Silver is not active on Bluesky, but its posts are often screen on X and exchanged for the mysterious taste on the platform. Basically, Silver admitted in his news message, criticizing the liberal “sadness”, and blames one social network for it.

Silver is not completely wrong. There is already a frequent culture and a retreat on a blouse, which makes it less fun than it can. (On the platform, X is referred to as “the other place”.) It is impossible to generalize all the residents of the site – Bluesky users are not published in English and do not participate in American policy – I identity has developed as a review of liberals in the effects of ELON Musk for Twitter and Donald Twitter. More than five or ten years ago five or ten years ago, what is the social network you use is a strange word for your personal policy, and you cannot use a specific platform without agreeing with or at least tolerance, its surrounding ideology. Social networks, especially text -based platforms that host political debate, have become more sectarian because politics, in turn, has become more online; If you are active on one network, you can, like silver, blame what you say there on another network. Thus, people’s choice of the platform to be used has become more fraught. A decade ago, it was logical for users to switch between different social networks that provide different content formats. Now that each platform offers a similar mix of texts, photos and videos, choosing the place of spending your time appears to be the choice of the preferred poison flavor in the brain.

Silver Bluesky throws a “strange online neighborhood that someone will not face unless you take a wrong turn.” But X dynamics, where silver is spread more or less daily, is more politicized with design. At the age of twenty, Twitter hosted a wide range of political views; He was known for distributing activists’ documents for the protests, as is the case with the Trump Fatwa platform during his first administration. After Musk acquired on the site, in 2022, he handed over moderation employees, stimulated certain forms of publication (often from the right -wing right influencers in Musk), and modified user’s extracts towards strengthening GROK and Xai, Musk Synthetic Acts. (X was officially combined into Xai this year) Social platform policy is determined not only through the opinions of its users but through the basic structure of the network. Bluesky, part of the decentralized internet, walks at a slower pace and allows specialized interests, and the bonus of internal battles on Minutiae, while X is deliberate chaos, which encourages the collection of the arm and the ideological comedy of an audience that may be largely made of Pots. X -imis, as we may call it, includes the race to participate at any cost and hunting as a student, and he is currently winning.

Silver may feel comfortable because of the fact that even many liberals who have fled for a Blue, they seem to embrace X -imm again, and return to the platform with a specific sin. The safe space for their return was partial Dodge To its own devices. It is easier to perform on the musk theater when the man himself is no longer there in all hours crying constantly. In March, the launch of “launch”abundance“By the book Ezra Klein and Derik Thompson, sparked a wave of debate about X on the most effective correspondence to combat Trump. ArgumentJoin. (As in Super Bowl, for example, it is fun to publish when there is something to collectively confirm.) Last month, California Governor Gavin Newsom began using the X X account in his office to ridicule Trump’s social publishing style, and publish messages that simulate the president’s renewable messages. The positive journalism caused by newsom was an permission for other liberal politicians to raise their heads on X in his aftermath.

I suspect that the left -wing journalists and editors return to X not because of the ideological duration of Bluesky, but because they miss the arms race. If x-amymis is better than Blueskyism, it is because X users do not have to work hard to reach people. On the Internet, there is still a larger megavone is better. However, the analysis of the distinction between Bluesky and X has an atmosphere of uselessness. The truth is that the social networks dominated by the text are largely degraded in all fields. According to Bluesky Open Source data, the number of daily stickers on the platform is decreased every month since its peak in January this year, after Trump’s inauguration (although it is still four times its size last year). X was forced to launch some of its internal statistics due to the organization of the new technology in the European Union; The data shows, earlier this year, that the site has lost about ten percent of its European user base, about 11 million accounts, since August 2024. The Meta’s Threads is growing, thanks to its constant support from Instagram, but since its launch, in 2023, it has not been born, at least through a misery, one cultural moment.