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Will Stancil
@whstancil.bsky.social

Judging from the replies, an astounding number of people still cannot grasp that "taking all the prominent liberal and progressive voices and putting them on a remote island where no ordinary people or institutions interact with them will reduce the political influence of liberals and progressives"

David Roberts@volts.wtf

It's hard to avoid the conclusion that Bluesky has been a net negative for US politics. They corralled everyone on the left into a little glass fishbowl where they shout at one another & everyone else ignores them. Meanwhile, all the pols & institutions stayed on X & are being dragged farther right.

Katie Mack
@astrokatie.com

I don’t think people disagree with that so much as people disagree with the implication that keeping them in the torture chamber of X (where, let’s be clear, due to algorithm changes they no longer had any real influence anyway) would somehow have been better for anyone involved

Katie Mack
@astrokatie.com

We all know and agree that the world is worse for X’s hostile takeover by fascists!

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Simone
@simoneb.bsky.social

it went downhill when they changed the algo so you couldn't see anyone you follow posting, then when they blocked tweet deck and put ads into your feed so you saw more ads and recommended posts then people you follow. THEN the x takeover

Edgar Allan Crow
@agnotology.bsky.social

Absolutely agree with that. My firsthand observation (as an exclusively Bluesky user since 2025) is that Bluesky fucks around with its algorithm in such a way as to limit engagement between people with divergent opinions. I don’t see where that does anything helpful for SM in general.

Chuck Watkins
@chuckwatkins.bsky.social

I dunno, I still get the occasional RepubliCult 🐑/bot (I just don't waste time arguing with morons or cultists, so after 2 exchanges I mute or block them. Did one earlier today, in fact.)