[downWidOutaFite]

The horde of right wing blue checks that dominate all popular political tweets is not a filter bubble. It is a user-hostile feature that makes organic political interactions impossible on the platform. It turns a peer-to-peer network into top-down broadcast.

[mnau]

In days of LLM, 99 out of 100 users are likely bots. That is probably also true for bluesky.

Like it or hate it, spending money is about the only semi-reliable defense against boting.