{"id":43225,"date":"2025-11-28T13:13:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T19:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=43225"},"modified":"2025-11-28T13:13:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T19:13:19","slug":"quote-of-the-day-63","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2025\/11\/28\/quote-of-the-day-63\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Social media veteran Josh Barro <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joshbarro.com\/p\/bluesky-isnt-a-bubble-its-a-containment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">published<\/a> this back in June:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The problem with a \u201cbubble\u201d is that it prevents the people inside from accessing the information on the outside. But the core functionality of Bluesky is not that it keeps information out; it\u2019s that it keeps information in. Like the containment dome over a nuclear reactor, Bluesky serves the important safety purpose of ensuring that whatever meltdowns occur within produce minimal fallout. So while I\u2019m not on Bluesky, I value the platform, and I encourage its users to continue screaming at each other about how much the rest of us all suck. Please do not leave.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I do not have a <em><strong>Bluesky<\/strong><\/em> account, nor <em><strong>X<\/strong><\/em>, nor <em><strong>Twitter<\/strong><\/em>. While my initial objection was that their limited format did not really permit nuanced arguments, it&#8217;s become apparent over the years that they encourage echo chambers where birds of a feather can flock together and resolutely not listen to outside voices.<\/p>\n<p>When I ran a social media platform, I absolutely valued the multiplicity of opinions that came with cases made and unmade. While I am not personally witnessing any of these platforms, the noise that leaks out is not at all encouraging &#8211; and why I do not join and only occasionally visit.<\/p>\n<p>I should probably visit <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mastodon_(social_network)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Mastodon<\/strong><\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social media veteran Josh Barro published this back in June: The problem with a \u201cbubble\u201d is that it prevents the people inside from accessing the information on the outside. But the core functionality of Bluesky is not that it keeps information out; it\u2019s that it keeps information in. Like the \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2025\/11\/28\/quote-of-the-day-63\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43225"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43226,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43225\/revisions\/43226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}