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Echo chamber politics
“The flight to Bluesky is a concern, not because X is the superior platform,” Globe & Mail columnist Phoebe Maltz Bovy wrote last week, “but because at a moment when persuasion and communication are vital, Mr. Trump’s loudest and most influential critics are building an echo chamber.” A year ago, I tried my hand in a bit of futurism in imagining The Bird Internet ( Dispatch #47) — a vision for a World Wide Web where personal choice, small groups, and reasonable inter-personal connections form the basis of our online relationships. I encourage you to read her fascinating blog if this interests you, but I’ll skip over the technical bits to get to her core point: Bluesky, because it is still run by a single company, could still let profit pervert its motive, or face a hostile takeover from a bad actor, and trap its users in its walled garden.
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