[Karrot_Kream]

My X never really degraded (I also spend a lot of time on Japanese-language X which is probably a different beast) but I have been spending time on Bluesky over the last year. For a while it was a fun network but fairly quiet. I could go an hour or so without any new posts. Over the last 3 weeks I've seen Bluesky become a lot more active and now it's feeling a lot like X where there's no way to stay on top of my feed. I'm really excited as I'm a firm believer that larger communities lead to more diverse views.

I also run my own Bluesky labeler and Firehose ingester so I've been following as event throughput has roughly doubled over the last 3-4 months.

[brendoelfrendo]

Japanese language Twitter is indeed a very different beast. It's pretty much the social network over there, and most of Musk's changes that targeted or angered users were primarily targeted at English-language users, mostly in the US. So the Japanese users just kinda trucked on like nothing was happening.