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by TMWNN·4d ago·view on hn ↗
Reddit is dominated by the left, but there are other voice audible.

Twitter has plenty of leftists. They are very, very, very easy to find, as is every other shape and size of political, ideological, or spiritual thought; far easier than, say, a non-leftist viewpoint on the worldnews or politics subreddits, which because of their default status are much more inescapable than any one Twitter account.

There are very, very few non-left people on Bluesky. "JD Vance Becomes Most Blocked Person on BlueSky Days After Joining App" <https://www.newsweek.com/jd-vance-bluesky-blocked-social-med...>

Even Bluesky's top users say so.

"Bluesky is backfiring. Mark Cuban says the 'lack of diversity of thought' is actually pushing users back to X" <https://fortune.com/2025/06/12/bluesky-backfiring-mark-cuban...>

"Bluesky is not the good place" <https://www.ms.now/opinion/bluesky-elon-musk-twitter-replace...>

But it could be worse. Bluesky has block list dissemination (à la how, if you make one comment in a "wrong" subreddit, a whole bunch of others will automatically ban you despite never having even heard of them), but I don't think even it ever gets so bad as individual Mastodon instances' ability to self-destruct in spectacularly amusing fashion. mastodon.lol example over Hogwarts Legacy. <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34748195> As rvz said in the link,

>This is just one of many Mastodon instances which are undergoing an extinction event which involves: turning against themselves and destroying each other. This time, it is over a children's video game.

That said, I suppose that such self-immolation might be a good thing; sort of an immune system-like response. There are many, many mentally ill that steep far too long in Bluesky (and 80% of Reddit)'s ever-boiling toxic soup.

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Huh I had no idea this is happening my entire feed is just photographers lol
> Twitter has plenty of leftists.

How, when according to you, they're dominating Reddit and Bsky?

Baring the possibility that people on the left use all the platforms, and people on the right don't for some reason, an excess on one platform has to mean a shortage on another.

Basically Bluesky is an echo chamber.
Reddit is dominated by the left? We're having very different feeds...
It is clearly dominated by the left. Look at r/politics for example....
You'd have to have the most selective feed of only small, esoteric subs to think it isn't
nobody fucking cares what mark cuban has to say.
Cuban is the #2 most-followed Bluesky user. <https://bluecrawler.com/>
What does this comment even mean? Substitute "left" for any other adjective, like "purple" or "embobulated" and it's equally meaningless: "There are very, very few non-embobulated people on Bluesky."
> > There are very, very few non-left people on Bluesky.

> What does this comment even mean

“It’s amazing how much leftist discourse is just them pretending not to understand things, thus making discourse impossible.”

- Colin Robertson

Is this your attempt at pretending not to understand it?
no. The person saying there are few non left people is clear, as is the person pretending they can’t understand what that means. You would know that from the lack of enquiry in the comment you responded to.
Okay understander, why don't you tell us what it means then?
What part of "There are very, very few non-left people on Bluesky." is vague?
It's very clear, people that want to think their echo chamber perfectly represents actual reality just choose not to understand