[NathanKP]

So far in this thread the majority of Hacker News users have decided they don't like the tone of your comment, therefore they have downvoted your comment.

If you don't see the irony, let me point it out: this is a real time demonstration that your following statement is not an inevitable thing:

> eventually converges on the same thing in the end: a place to dump out ugly things

When a community has the tools for self governance, then it can resist influences that it does not appreciate. In the case of Bluesky in specific, you may not be familiar with how easy it is to subscribe to labelers and blocklists. This decentralized self governance model allows anyone to curate their Bluesky experience, and it allows sub communities to collectively govern in ways that filter the cesspool and remove the ugly things.

In short, the fact that you are complaining about downvotes while simultaneously saying that it is inevitable for communities to devolve into places to dump ugly things is highly ironic. One thing that you are complaining about, is the solution to the other thing that you are complaining about.

[hyperhello]

You’ve collapsed my comment into a crumpled up pile of ideas that you hate. Your description doesn’t resonate with me and describe what I had to say. And I notice the article itself is now flagged and dead, because of downvotes too.