For a while BSky was like a handful of micro-cliques, and my Twitter feed was painstakingly, ruthlessly built over years, way more blocks than follows, but the final few days leading up to the election it was non-stop unblockable christofascist ads. They finally made it unusable.
As others have noted, it's been a balance between bsky and the bad place for about a year, but the election result was a watershed moment that moved many more in the sporting world over. I've only returned there to unfollow all of the folks I'm following here.
I realised how uninterested I was in seeing the *sort* of political posts that were getting amplified on Twitter - both the doomerism of the left and everything about the right - and it was a pleasant surprise to re-open bsky for the first time in months and see it be so active.
It's funny I never found Twitter so bad, but then again, I never engaged with the trolls so I think they tired of me early. If someone was just spouting awfulness I'd also never hesitate to use the mute function. I haven't moved fully, I'm crossposting for now.
I stopped engaging with Twitter when Musk bought it and made clear his intentions, but kept the account to keep the name and help ppl I followed in their follower counts. Post-election, it seemed a good message to send that even that was too much compromise.
I also thought that one way to take a bad moment and turn it into a positive is to, within that same moment, make it also stand as a moment you made a positive change.
I still haven’t closed my account but I haven’t posted since I got an account here and I think for several months my only posts were about how awful the place was.
I really don't have much perspective on how much worse it got after Musk bought it bc I refused to engage with it. It was basically just a "news" ticker, when I would look at it. Was just kind of adrift for awhile, hoping something would emerge...and then, here. Now.
The blue checkmark drivel at the top of every thread really started bothering me in July. Checked out Threads then and it was no good. Came to bluesky the day after the election when the other app was somehow *even worse* than before. In the last week most follows I care about have migrated here.
Less about what’s going on elsewhere and more about what’s not going on there (and hasn’t for a good long while): enlightened intellectual interaction. Seems to be some of that here and recently a tipping point of volume achieved.
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