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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.

Very telling that so many people are interpreting this as a defense of X.

FWIW, I think the assertion you made is just factually incorrect. Twitter/X would have merely muted all of those people, and some large percentage of them would have been dragged right.

The ability of left-of-center voices gaining any traction there anyway is super borked.

While I think this is true to some extent, it is an exaggeration to say that Musk would or is capable of completely muting all those voices. He definitely tilted the algorithm, but there are plenty of big lib accounts still on there. If he'd *completely* wiped them out, X would have died.