Spending a month on Bluesky has created a whole new model of a fight we need to be having right now. Not liberal vs. conservative or whatever, but respect vs manipulation.

I am tired of being manipulated everywhere I go. That’s why I like it here, I feel like I’m in charge for once.

As a non-American who casually read about world news, my tl on Twitter was becoming overwhelmingly flooded with right wing discourse for American politics. No matter how I mute/hide, it continues to be suffocating to be there. So hello 🦋