[attilakun]

> I fear the recent US election is going to kill it, though.

How? Aren’t there a lot more people migrating to Bluesky now in light of Musk’s antics on X?

[kps]

Look at some of the comments here. If Bluesky has the reputation of being centered around US politics, it won't be the choice of those with other interests.

[danielbln]

I've got my wors filters set up so that I never see an ounce of US politics. It's wonderful.

[rsynnott]

That sort of ultra-rapid growth can be difficult to absorb, though so far it seems to be going fairly well.

[intended]

Market power and a compliant government / political party.

[DFHippie]

Trump talked continuously about weaponizing the government, how it was done to him ("They are investigating/prosecuting my crimes and I am a politician now! Disgraceful!"), and how he was going to do it good and hard to those who opposed him. Now Musk is the de facto vice president, so anyone who annoys Musk or gets in the way of his amassing more wealth and power is a potential target. You don't have to have any case. Just drown the startup in legal bills.

[BadHumans]

Musk has the president-elect in his pocket and Musk hates BlueSky. The goal is to be the only source of propaganda and let right-wing conspiracies fly unchecked on social media.

[cmxch]

That’s a bit reductive. What says that Bluesky doesn’t have their flavor of propaganda that suits their preferences? That is, what makes the Bluesky perspective more valid other than just being on a platform that hates Twitter?

About anything that is currently legal and permitted on Twitter seems to be specifically prohibited by design (and can’t be opted out of wrt moderation) in Bluesky. If the Mastodon case is any guide, there will be a great effort to ensure that nothing wrt software can conflict with it.

[Vaslo]

Lol who told you that? X is vibrant and big ad companies are coming back. I personally created an account on Bluesky not to support it but to ensure leftists cannot create an echo chamber.

[timbit42]

Yes, vibrant with hate speech and now Musk is deleting accounts of people he doesn't like. Free speech my ass.

[bee_rider]

What do you mean by “cannot create an echo chamber?” The whole pitch of the site is build-your-own-filter functionality.