> As one of the first 10k beta users, who was fairly active, then moved back to twitter, I agree with this. The userbase is extremely off putting from the get go
Very surprised to hear this... the few times I've visited Twitter in the last year I've been met with a deluge of racist, homophobic, transphobic, and misogynistic comments. Like there's practically no moderation on there. People saying "Hitler was right the whole time" and shit like that.
I don't use Bluesky much either but I definitely wouldn't have considered it worse than Twitter
Its not worse than twitter. It's not close in compared to toxicity; though i've personally noticed a high-minded snobbishness toxicity that shuts down discussion on it.
Twitter still attracts top quality initial posts from prominent people, even though the replies are garbage, or worse. Honestly, it doesn't compute to me how people can justify continuing to contribute there.
Since when is the ability for someone to say what they want to say on the internet, a bad thing? You don't have to agree with the sentiment that Hitler was right, but that doesn't mean migrating to a platform that bans such speech is the next best alternative. I'm also not pretending X / Twitter promotes free speech, but they are certainly better than BlueSky in that regard. Free speech is free speech and you might not like what someone else is saying, but I'm sure you hold dear the right to say whatever you want, whether others agree with it or not.
Edit: The people downvoting without commenting are exactly the type of people BlueSky attracts. They can't handle others having different opinions and need safe spaces carved out for them via moderation, but will willingly spout off their own opinions endlessly and complain about anyone that doesn't adopt their worldview.