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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

First2Go
@bbenston.bsky.social

All of this (again) implies that the right doesn't have agency. X was a Superfund site, so libs come to BlueSky, therefore BlueSky is a net negative for US politics? No, I disagree. BlueSky is a consequence of the right's hostile takeover of media for the last 40 years. *That's* the negative.

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