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Another thought on the Bluesky discourse: Bluesky on its absolute worst, most sanctimonious, most "I think you'll find" day has NOTHING on TikTok comment sections/stitches. But TikTok is growing well. To me, that suggests general user utility/attractiveness may be a bigger issue here.

What drove a lot of the "content creators" off Twitter more than its owners politics was his decision to render it useless for outgoing links. Musk made it very difficult to impossible to promote anything on his site. It was utility as much as ideology.

At the moment, an active challenge for Bluesky (in my opinion) is that it's a website that encourages hot-takes but does yet have a critical mass of rapid fact content to respond to. Like, there's a reason half the threads on here start with an X screenshot. That can be fixed though!

I couldn't put a % on it but an awful lot of X screenshots I've seen on here are for accounts who also have a BS account and have posted the same content here 🤷