I think hiding your genuine feelings in irony is so overplayed and has been such a cliché in the 21st century, we need to revive pure sincerity and romanticism. There is nothing more liberating than allowing your emotions to flourish.

Case in point: Velma

I love how people across the political unanimously agree that the new Proud Family show was straight up ass.

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Or worse, Tiktokers.

Getting your opinions from youtubers/streamers is kinda like breathing someone else's exhales instead of actually breathing. You'd get nothing but CO2 poisoning and bad breath. If you still do that, then you have no free will and your impulses are nature at its worst.

Or they're mad that their source of income is being threatened by people not willing to be exploited as content Both are very likely.

More and more people are starting to realize that social media algorithm is tailor-made to grab one's attention by any means necessary, including but not limited to tearing up the very fabrics of society by promoting extremist rage bait content slops 24/7.

I believe (and hope) that ragebait content will start dying. Brought on by a collective desire for normalcy, and the negativity reaching critical levels that may push people to seek an escape. For US at least, I think it all erupted from the boiling emotions of dissatisfaction overall, early 2010’s.

Honestly I really want a GTA IV remaster with the same polish and care as RDR II.

Agree! I fully support artists' right to post NSFW stuff but I don't want to get hit with, say, inflation/pregnancy Ace Attorney fetish fanart hitting my Discover feed out of nowhere! I don't think this is unreasonable!

I think the best way to deradicalize people from the far right is to actually use their language and flip it against their argument. Like any cults, they have their own glossary of terms that may sound weird or stupid to outsiders. But please do it in ways that isn't combative/condescending.

True. Maybe they just upset that after finding out the uncomfortable truth that their content is just ragebait slops.

They're mad because most people here would just outright block them the moment they say something dumb, instead of getting baited for content.

You know, I made a BSKY "just in case". I didn't particularly care for it. But it showed me how nuts twitter is by contrast. So I kinda appreciate this platform now.

>sees video about bluesky >"bluesky is bad" >checks channel >is a twitter-addicted vtuber who makes culture war content

80s and early 90s Shonen protagonists

After being on Bluesky for a bit, I'm fully convinced that modern social media is responsible for the majority of social conflicts. Especially Facebook. It's directly responsible for multiple ethnic violence across the globe. The Rohingya Massacre is one of them.

ngl I wish I was Molly McGee, she was literally me when I was about her age

Probably how Twitter's gonna go. It'll turn into a containment zone for 4chan wannabees and Elon's personal dickriders after everyone else leaves, supported entirely by blue checkmarks. Even the discourse addicted culture warriors will leave once someplace else becomes more popular.

Facebook remains the containment zone for the crustiest boomers and most racist third worlders.

I think being an anti-censorship is a good personality trait because censorship can be used against anyone, including you. Sadly this sentiment isn't really popular amongst the youths, but instead it's popular amongst crazy conspiracy theorist uncles.

TIL one of my old friends on DeviantArt and YouTube from 2008 is now a respected news reporter in her country. I'm really glad for her.

Self-censoring adult media with tags and CWs and curating your personal social's feed if you don't want to see it is definitely not what I would call actual censorship Not only are they not censors, I believe many of the content moderation tools bsky has should be mandatory for all relevant socials

Big truthing I think it's part of a bigger situation where we want to vilify everything people we hate stand for. We see the crazy uncle, we see Elon Musk, we see what they like and associate it all with what must be wrong. It hurts us from being able to evaluate merit of ideas over social teams.

I'm glad that Bluesky has a blocklist and toggle for people to avoid nsfw stuff. As someone who draws NSFW, it's great that people have the ability to control what they see on their feed.

The young folks get hit with it the hardest. Bombarded with hateful or extremist messages, sexual content, etc. Even the artists know that NSFW is just about the only thing that sells, so they know they have to censor that so young eyes don't see it. Some is necessary.

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People don't realize that censorship isn't some small thing, it's like a bomb, a nuke to be more exact It will affect them too

TIL the most blocked person in this app is some brazilian guy named Felipe. Did he committed a war crime? I need lore.

Also, an answer beyond legality would be to have algorithmic content based on positive interactions rather than simply interactions It's crazy to click on a single video and get recommended blackpilled radicalization videos

Algorithms on sites like Twitter or Youtube are ridiculously terrible and designed intentionally for radicalization. That should, absolutely, be stopped, but I don't think censorship is the way to go about it. The most direct way would be legislation against intentionally promoting radical content.

Unfortunately to really hold to this principle you also need to be able to see stuff you don't like and go "okay 🤷‍♂️" which seems to be the critical point of failure most often.

the problem starts when, instead of having a healthy discussion, they start to double-down and throw insults. while the idea of debating an awful idea is absolutely noble, some people just don't. this is why a lot of people stopped talking to family members who become conspiracy theorists.

that's true... I always believe that censorship against hate speech, bigotry, extremism, and disinformation is a good thing. while censorship against anything else is bad.

Anticensorship is good, but censorship in moderation can be a good thing too. I think theres too much of a "youre either with us or youre against us" mindset in most conversation and rhetoric these days. Which makes it really hard to form genuine opinions for a lot of people

I think being an anti-censorship is a good personality trait because censorship can be used against anyone, including you. Sadly this sentiment isn't really popular amongst the youths, but instead it's popular amongst crazy conspiracy theorist uncles.

There will be mods that'll bring rouge's tatas back. And there will be mods that will make them bigger. Sega underestimates horny Sonic fans and it shows.

Rouge will always be sexy as much as Sega wants to erase that as much as they want to erase the fact that Sonic kissed a human girl.

You heard they cancelled the season pass and early access? Fans been waiting for a Japanese Assassin’s Creed for a long time and the moment they get one it’s absolutely mired with issues for it and the company. Really feels like nothing is going good for Ubisoft.

I said it before and I'll say it again: Ubisoft's attempt to sell AC: Shadows to the Japanese audience is like Pizza Hut's attempt to sell stuffed-crusted Hawaiian pizza to the Italians. No...

it took me over 20 years to realize that Bo Rai Cho's name is a play on the Spanish word 'Borracho', which means drunk.

For the longest time I thought Hamilton and Actual Cannibal Shia Labeouf were written by the same person.

Walz: "Elon's on that stage, jumping around, skipping like a dipshit" (via Acyn)

I'm gonna bring my Twitter tradition of yelling "BOOYAKA BOOYAKA" whenever my post gets 619 likes.

"For mature audiences" not as in "legally allowed to see a boob" but "can see a fictional character do a bad thing and not immediately go on a crusade against the author"

I think it's fair to say that older millennials, should stop trying to make a startup company every single goddamn year and think it would be the next Google.

I've been noticing that Bluesky has the same amount of organic non-AI engagement as Twitter. The main difference is the amount of likes. I think a lot of people should learn that it's okay not to have many likes.

If I could bring all the retention Twitter gets to here, I would frankly delete my Twitter account and use this forever.