Blueskyism

= BlueSky is the left-liberal, and technologically decentralized, rival and alternative to X, former Twitter, after its takeover by Elon Musk

Description

Nate Silver, in , “What is Blueskyism?”

(as paraphrased by Max Read [1])

"Bluesky was initially popular with Twitter refugees who disliked Musk’s takeover of the platform, some of whom proclaimed that Elon had unleashed the “gates of hell” by restoring banned accounts or predicted that the platform would implode due to a shortage of engineering talent.

- […] this also self-selected for a certain type of user, adherents of an attitude that I call “Blueskyism”.

Blueskyism should not be mistaken for general left-of-center political views. […] It’s not a political movement so much as a tribal affiliation, a niche set of attitudes and style of discursive norms that almost seem designed in a lab to be as unappealing as possible to anyone outside the clique.

Silver lists three “essential qualities” to “Blueskyism”:

Smalltentism: “Aggressive policing of dissent… Censoriousness”

Credentialism: “Appeals to authority… Centering of the suitability of the speaker based on his or her credentials and/or identity characteristics”

Catastrophism: “Humorless, scoldy neuroticism”."

(https://maxread.substack.com/p/why-are-pundits-obsessed-with-bluesky)