bsky is a great transition medium, but we really need platforms that have different communication modalities than microblogging
there are wayyy to many downsides, both personal and societal, to that we've made microblogging the dominant form of global news comms
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its actually amazing how well the simple theory of "literally everyone in the world is scared, panic is contagious and scared people make stupid impulsive decisions" seem to work well as an explanation for so many completely independent things going on right now