As the title suggests, now that more people are moving from Reddit, Twitter, Facebook and whatnot towards platforms on Fediverse and Bluesky, will that not create an even bigger split between political views? Most people who are not afraid of big tech and its influence will probably stay there.
We were already not always able to communicate and discuss certain topics as normal human beings, but now we probably won’t even see each other’s posts.
What do you think?
Perhaps this is a little pretentious but i don’t consider the cattle type of users, who will go where the most people are, like the most popular content, and generally follow along with the digital mainstream without much thought or personal agenda, valuable additions to online conversations. As far as I’m concerned they can stay wherever they are and if needed be fed some downstream summary of what the actual people talk about elsewhere.
That’s good for the conversation. But is it good for the society? The cattle type people have voting rights. It’s not unimportant what informations they are fed. As can be seen now more that ever.
Certainly true, but then it is more an issue of what opinions they are fed than them not being a direct part of the conversations, no?