Nope. Not true.
I haven’t really seen any toxicity on there yet, and I’d wager both are less toxic than here regardless.
The trolls and fascists do not exist on Twitter to hang out with other trolls and fascists. They’re there hunting for liberal tears. When their prey leaves, they follow.
Bluekky has been open about not moderating their platform. They’ve provided users tools to not see the shit they’re letting through the door – which, yes, is currently better than Twitter, where the current ownership believes that ‘free speech’ is deserving of a captive audience – but if the bsky algorithm thinks you have something – anything, really – in common with the Nazis, they’ll get shunted into your timeline, leaving you to play wack-a-mole.
Two thoughts come to mind:
- If it’s there and you aren’t having it shoved down your throat, then that’s still a VAST improvement over Twitter, which has gone from shitty social media to blatant hate indoctrination platform.
and
- Did you just now discover that most people are shitty? I always assumed most people figured that out at 13 or 14.
I had the same experience. I rarely see any toxic shit on Mastodon compared to what I kept seeing on BlueSky, even after using custom feeds.
I guess it depends on what “toxic” means to everybody. I certainly saw a ton of self-centered hostility towards people who saw the platform differently when I was using Masto more. This place is pretty chill and the one bit of Fedi I still use.
My experience on BS was generally fine so far. Some people really block-happy, which I’m fine with, and during the last migration some of the trolls came over to troll and found themselves summarily banlisted almost universally. I don’t expect them to last super long in there.
But as always with social media, experiences are more variable than anybody intuitively thinks.
