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This is not surprising. In my circles, the people that most enthusiastically migrated away from X to Bluesky did so specifically because of their distaste for E
by bentt 1y ago
This is not surprising. In my circles, the people that most enthusiastically migrated away from X to Bluesky did so specifically because of their distaste for Elon Musk. They are largely centered about the West Coast of the US. And because X is so much bigger, it's capable of being more diverse.
Furthermore, I already had a lot of mute words and blocks set up on X to keep it palatable. I don't see any politics over there and it's entirely focused on creative work. If I did this on Bluesky I imagine I'd significantly cull my feed down to it seeming dead.
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- justonceokay 1y agoThis reminds me of a similar rift that happened in the Seattle area subreddits. Many years ago ago there was a mod who was using their position to sell something (I don’t exactly remember it). So a bunch of people left r/Seattle for r/SeattleWA. Ad you might expect that was mostly techies and the terminally online. Fast forward 10 years later and now r/seattleWA has become the right-wing subreddit. r/Seattle is more lighthearted and full of pictures of the space needle. This wasn’t the original intent, but once a community splits in two both sides are going to further differentiate to fill more user niches.
- bentt 1y agoYeah thats an interesting example! This feels like a natural process, for better or worse. Also thats the founding principle of America. If you have had enough, move and set up a new country/state/religion/homeschool group.