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What does the Online Right really want?
Influential Online Right thinker Curtis Yarvin. Credit: Peter Duke
Happening today beneath the surface
Influential Online Right thinker Curtis Yarvin. Credit: Peter Duke
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SubscribeI’ve never heard of BlueSky, so I used Perplexity.
Apparently , users have significant control over their content and timelines. They can customize their feeds and moderation settings, which promotes a more tailored and empowering user experience.
Users can choose which algorithms influence their feed.
It seems easier to create an echo chamber on BlueSky than elsewhere.
It seems BlueSky is 67% male, not so different to Twitter.
What “the online Right” most likely ‘wants’ is to be defined as neither “Christians” or “Nietzcheans” (sic).
I do wish commentators would stop trying to categorise complex groups of human beings; quite frankly, it’s juvenile and reductive.
There’s two types of people in the world: those who reduce humanity down to two groups, and those who don’t.
Ironic comment one assumes given your name? Certainly gave a chuckle and long week so needed
That diagram captures the online right perfectly! I’m sure most Unherd commenters will find themselves in there!
I honestly don’t know what you get out of posting on here.
Among the many things you don’t know…
Well, true wisdom is acknowledgement of one’s own ignorance, and I’m not so arrogant as to say I know everything. Can you say the same?
He’s unburdening himself from what has been.
He’s a wind-up artist, also probably thinks he’s a truth-teller to right wing numpties. Just a fact of life, like piles or a toothache.
Was the article being discussed written by a first year? “Only united by what they claim to be superseding?” Um… pot, kettle, black?
What “not shutting up about china” has to do with “prudish” and “obsessed with race”? It’s too inaccurate to be useful or even funny. What’s worth noticing though is that “progressive” online presence is so shrill and insane that it makes the “right” online interesting in comparison.
“Left-wing diehards have migrated to BlueSky or Threads”
Really? Is ANYONE on Threads? Anyone at all?
Whether it’s the On-Line Right (however that’s defined) or a Far Right element the ‘…erotic obsession with virile masculinity’ not especially new phenomena. But it is useful to draw attention to this tendency which is repeatedly quite obvious.
Now ‘each to their own’, but sometimes the gentleman doth protest too much.