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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.

we (that is, me as part of the left) yell at each other about the same on every platform too, tbf

imo it's like all the rest, it's just easier to see if you aren't looking directly at it because the network itself is so small