| Bluesky 21:40 - Nov 11 with 30097 views | BrianMcCarthy |
I think it's time for the big switch.
My twitter feed is vile at the moment.
Anyone else switching over? |  |
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| Bluesky on 18:37 - Nov 22 with 2591 views | Spaghetti_Hoops |
| Bluesky on 17:36 - Nov 22 by James_Paddocks |
The club's official account and the retro QPR site are now on there.
That's pretty much all I need. |
Survey today on the political leanings of social media sites.
Martin Lewis
@MartinSLewis
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How do social media sites political leanings compare? Yesterday I did a poll on all the platforms I'm on (barring TikTok) the results when listed side by side are fascinating...
As they're self-selecting polls, this is less about the absolute vote and more about the relative… Show more
Do you consider your politics leftish, rightish or centre-ish?
Social Media Platforms Compared
Votes Leftish Centre-ish Rightish Not political
X (Twitter)39,000 33% 29% 31% 6%
Instagram 15,300 46% 26% 18% 10%
Facebook 6,200 53% 23% 21% 5%
Threads 3,135 65% 28% 4% 3%
Bluesky 1,300 66% 30% 2% 2%
Unweighted average (1) N/A 53% 27% 15% 5%
Weighted average (2) 65,000 40% 28% 25% 7%
(1) Average if each platform taken as the same value regardless of vote numbers
(2) Average if all votes across each platform given same weighting
Conclusion X relatively balanced.
Bluesky the place for left wing groupthink. |  | | |
| Bluesky on 18:54 - Nov 22 with 2557 views | Northernr |
| Bluesky on 18:37 - Nov 22 by Spaghetti_Hoops |
Survey today on the political leanings of social media sites.
Martin Lewis
@MartinSLewis
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How do social media sites political leanings compare? Yesterday I did a poll on all the platforms I'm on (barring TikTok) the results when listed side by side are fascinating...
As they're self-selecting polls, this is less about the absolute vote and more about the relative… Show more
Do you consider your politics leftish, rightish or centre-ish?
Social Media Platforms Compared
Votes Leftish Centre-ish Rightish Not political
X (Twitter)39,000 33% 29% 31% 6%
Instagram 15,300 46% 26% 18% 10%
Facebook 6,200 53% 23% 21% 5%
Threads 3,135 65% 28% 4% 3%
Bluesky 1,300 66% 30% 2% 2%
Unweighted average (1) N/A 53% 27% 15% 5%
Weighted average (2) 65,000 40% 28% 25% 7%
(1) Average if each platform taken as the same value regardless of vote numbers
(2) Average if all votes across each platform given same weighting
Conclusion X relatively balanced.
Bluesky the place for left wing groupthink. |
Or the place where you can follow the things you're interested in without being constantly infested with politics you're not. |  | | |
| Bluesky on 19:00 - Nov 22 with 2534 views | Spaghetti_Hoops |
| Bluesky on 18:54 - Nov 22 by Northernr |
Or the place where you can follow the things you're interested in without being constantly infested with politics you're not. |
If you believe that you’ll believe anything.
How far the real world will intrude depends on the censors and their algorithms. | | | |
| Bluesky on 19:00 - Nov 22 with 2520 views | switchingcode |
| Bluesky on 18:54 - Nov 22 by Northernr |
Or the place where you can follow the things you're interested in without being constantly infested with politics you're not. |
Keep away from Bluesky then | | | |
| Bluesky on 19:03 - Nov 22 with 2520 views | baz_qpr |
| Bluesky on 18:37 - Nov 22 by Spaghetti_Hoops |
Survey today on the political leanings of social media sites.
Martin Lewis
@MartinSLewis
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Follow
How do social media sites political leanings compare? Yesterday I did a poll on all the platforms I'm on (barring TikTok) the results when listed side by side are fascinating...
As they're self-selecting polls, this is less about the absolute vote and more about the relative… Show more
Do you consider your politics leftish, rightish or centre-ish?
Social Media Platforms Compared
Votes Leftish Centre-ish Rightish Not political
X (Twitter)39,000 33% 29% 31% 6%
Instagram 15,300 46% 26% 18% 10%
Facebook 6,200 53% 23% 21% 5%
Threads 3,135 65% 28% 4% 3%
Bluesky 1,300 66% 30% 2% 2%
Unweighted average (1) N/A 53% 27% 15% 5%
Weighted average (2) 65,000 40% 28% 25% 7%
(1) Average if each platform taken as the same value regardless of vote numbers
(2) Average if all votes across each platform given same weighting
Conclusion X relatively balanced.
Bluesky the place for left wing groupthink. |
All that shows is more left leaning people follow Martin Lewis and engage with his content |  | | |
| Bluesky on 19:07 - Nov 22 with 2511 views | Northernr |
| Bluesky on 19:00 - Nov 22 by switchingcode |
Keep away from Bluesky then |
I've had the opposite experience so far. I follow QPR, football, rugby league, London history, photography and a few mates. And I get QPR, football, rugby league, London history, photography and a few mates. | | | |
| Bluesky on 19:36 - Nov 22 with 2454 views | switchingcode |
| Bluesky on 19:07 - Nov 22 by Northernr |
I've had the opposite experience so far. I follow QPR, football, rugby league, London history, photography and a few mates. And I get QPR, football, rugby league, London history, photography and a few mates. |
I saw Guardian CNN James O’Brien New York Times Washington post then guardian then more and more Guardian then the begging bowl for the highest paid journalists.Do me a favour | | | |
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| Bluesky on 20:07 - Nov 22 with 2403 views | Northernr |
| Bluesky on 19:36 - Nov 22 by switchingcode |
I saw Guardian CNN James O’Brien New York Times Washington post then guardian then more and more Guardian then the begging bowl for the highest paid journalists.Do me a favour |
If you don’t follow them then you don’t see them.
I don’t follow them, so I don’t see them.
Whereas Twitter push them onto me. | | | |
| Bluesky on 20:11 - Nov 22 with 2385 views | aston_hoop |
All this echo chamber, left-leaning stuff makes it sound like people only use social media for politics. I mean, most of us don't right? We're there to follow the things that actually interest us? |  |
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| Bluesky on 20:14 - Nov 22 with 2377 views | James_Paddocks |
On Twitter, I was getting halfwits like Darren Grimes and Laurence Fox shoved down my throat on a daily basis.
Great, so I'll block them. Unfortunately, I cannot mute or block their 500k followers and their endless Union Jack AI images and retweets.
It was an endless stream of poison, designed to whip up other halfwits.
So far on Bluesky, I've seen book reviews, retro football videos and a smidgen of world news.
It's absolute fcking bliss. |  | | |
| Bluesky on 20:35 - Nov 22 with 2324 views | kensalriser |
Funny how some people seem to know other people's experiences better than they do. Must be a special kind of genius. |  |
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| Bluesky on 20:59 - Nov 22 with 2282 views | Northernr |
| Bluesky on 19:00 - Nov 22 by Spaghetti_Hoops |
If you believe that you’ll believe anything.
How far the real world will intrude depends on the censors and their algorithms. |
Well the stuff I’m interested in and want to see is definitely happening in the real world. | | | |
| Bluesky on 16:00 - Nov 24 with 1848 views | OldPedro |
In case anyone has realised, the club now have an official bluesky account:
https://bsky.app/profile/qpr.co.uk |  |
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| Bluesky on 16:26 - Nov 24 with 1779 views | baz_qpr |
| Bluesky on 19:00 - Nov 22 by Spaghetti_Hoops |
If you believe that you’ll believe anything.
How far the real world will intrude depends on the censors and their algorithms. |
That's the point with the platform it's decentralised anyone can build an algorithm , or their own version of it. Jack Dorsey the original creator of Twitter set it up for those purposes but left because he disagreed with the introduction of moderation and safety tools as like Musk he has become a free speech absolutist | | | |
| Bluesky on 17:35 - Nov 24 with 1713 views | OldPedro |
| Bluesky on 16:26 - Nov 24 by baz_qpr |
That's the point with the platform it's decentralised anyone can build an algorithm , or their own version of it. Jack Dorsey the original creator of Twitter set it up for those purposes but left because he disagreed with the introduction of moderation and safety tools as like Musk he has become a free speech absolutist |
Musk says he wants free-speech but doesn't. You only have to look at some of the threats he tweets to people/organisations or countries he doesn't agree with. | |
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| Bluesky on 19:27 - Nov 24 with 1624 views | FDC |
You're welcome 😉
It's not a perfect solution to making your feed purely QPR related because obviously everyone posts about other things too, but it was a good way to follow match related comment during and after the game on Saturday |  | | |
| Bluesky on 19:43 - Nov 24 with 1588 views | LazyFan |
All these people who say, "I don't do politics", forget that politics will do you regardless.
Sure, I get you want to reduce the noise to zero. That won't happen, though.
For example, when the government regulator comes into force for football, you know it will fall short, and then the politics will start, and so on.
I think it's fine to reduce the noise of politics, but remember that sticking your head in the ground is still just doing that while the world still crashes into you.
What I am hoping bluesky will do is allow me to separate out blatant political threads from other ones like football; it won't eliminate politics. Now, you may say it does this already, but I want that service sustained. As we have seen with Twitter, things change when the rich snaffle it up. |  |
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| Bluesky on 17:04 - Dec 5 with 809 views | derbyhoop |
| Bluesky on 20:14 - Nov 22 by James_Paddocks |
On Twitter, I was getting halfwits like Darren Grimes and Laurence Fox shoved down my throat on a daily basis.
Great, so I'll block them. Unfortunately, I cannot mute or block their 500k followers and their endless Union Jack AI images and retweets.
It was an endless stream of poison, designed to whip up other halfwits.
So far on Bluesky, I've seen book reviews, retro football videos and a smidgen of world news.
It's absolute fcking bliss. |
All the downsides of X replacing why I've virtually stopped looking at it. |  |
| "Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the Earth all one's lifetime." (Mark Twain)
Find me on twitter @derbyhoop and now on Bluesky |
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| Bluesky on 17:08 - Dec 5 with 798 views | hubble |
Out of interest I looked at these accounts; the one attributed to you is filled with really poisonous stuff. I thought bluesky was meant to be all sweetness and light? |  |
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| Bluesky on 20:40 - Dec 5 with 628 views | Match82 |
| Bluesky on 18:37 - Nov 22 by Spaghetti_Hoops |
Survey today on the political leanings of social media sites.
Martin Lewis
@MartinSLewis
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Follow
How do social media sites political leanings compare? Yesterday I did a poll on all the platforms I'm on (barring TikTok) the results when listed side by side are fascinating...
As they're self-selecting polls, this is less about the absolute vote and more about the relative… Show more
Do you consider your politics leftish, rightish or centre-ish?
Social Media Platforms Compared
Votes Leftish Centre-ish Rightish Not political
X (Twitter)39,000 33% 29% 31% 6%
Instagram 15,300 46% 26% 18% 10%
Facebook 6,200 53% 23% 21% 5%
Threads 3,135 65% 28% 4% 3%
Bluesky 1,300 66% 30% 2% 2%
Unweighted average (1) N/A 53% 27% 15% 5%
Weighted average (2) 65,000 40% 28% 25% 7%
(1) Average if each platform taken as the same value regardless of vote numbers
(2) Average if all votes across each platform given same weighting
Conclusion X relatively balanced.
Bluesky the place for left wing groupthink. |
Interesting numbers, thanks. Not sure i fully agree with your conclusion, unless we believe that social media users (inc Facebook) are much more likely to skew left than right which feels unlikely.
I'd index against either the average or Facebook (by nature, less political....just) especially because both of these have a relatively similar profile.
With that context, Twitter skews right wing, insta and Facebook are pretty balanced and bluesky/threads skew way left. That feels about right?
Would bet that those Twitter numbers would look much more like the Facebook ones if this poll was 2 years ago |  | | |
| Bluesky on 21:06 - Dec 5 with 598 views | OldPedro |
| Bluesky on 20:40 - Dec 5 by Match82 |
Interesting numbers, thanks. Not sure i fully agree with your conclusion, unless we believe that social media users (inc Facebook) are much more likely to skew left than right which feels unlikely.
I'd index against either the average or Facebook (by nature, less political....just) especially because both of these have a relatively similar profile.
With that context, Twitter skews right wing, insta and Facebook are pretty balanced and bluesky/threads skew way left. That feels about right?
Would bet that those Twitter numbers would look much more like the Facebook ones if this poll was 2 years ago |
You also need to factor in the people who would have seen this survey, likely to be people who follow Martin Lewis, and whether this affects the results.
When I use Twitter, I do see a lot of Trump centric posts/opinions (even though I don't follow Trump or right-wing accounts) but I would guess that a lot of those accounts wouldn't be completing this survey. | |
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| Bluesky on 21:15 - Dec 5 with 582 views | Wilkinswatercarrier |
I don't understand all this social media. I'm in my 40s and I've never been on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram etc etc etc, and do you know what, I'm pretty chilled out.
I come on here for all things QPR, and get my news from The Guardian, Daily Mail and CNN so I can make my own mind up.
Just switch it all off, you'll feel much better, and the sun will rise the next day and the world will still turn.
Oh, and if you want expert opinions, reports and analysis then I recommend The Conversation UK. Pretty unbiased and gives a background to the main stories in the news. Link attached, happy reading everyone.
https://theconversation.com/uk | | | |
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