I left Bluesky almost immediately. When you search a topic on Twitter, you get a mix of multiple view points.

When you search the same topic on Bluesky, you only get hard-left and sometimes crazy/conspiracy-based ones. This is a mix of the Demographic of people using it and the censorship of the platform.

I think most people are a bit tired of the echo chambers online and the stats show it.

this guy is like matt drudge, he caught lightning in a bottle and is holding tight onto that moment of relevance

I got in my first fight with Bluesky leftists recently. And while it was remarkably annoying (for think I got a bit of a better sense of how challenging our political situation is), I could mute them pretty easily, I chose to keep engaging.

I was never a huge Twitter fan, but I think part of the reason I’m on Bluesky is an ideal of something more distributed. I do wish they’d figure out a way to make the platform more compelling for more people; it would probably be better for me too, I kind of want more of an echo chamber where I can have moderate views from the left and right and avoid the extreme ones, but it does feel like a lot of those extreme views edge into my feed.

The other thing about Blueskyism though, as Nate Silver mentions, is I suspect it gets people engagement. I notice MattYglesias often engages with the most poorly intentioned users, and it’s certainly on purpose. Though there are degrees I’m sure (as Nate Silver mentions, it’s probably uncomfortable being the main character) if I had to guess part of Blue Sky’s challenge is that moderates who give it a shot intentionally or unintentionally increase the types of engagement that lead to blueskyism.