[justaman]

It seems that bluesky will be the political left's version of twitter going forward. The same way truth social became a right-wing echo chamber from its inception. I see the world(the US in particular) drawing lines and further devolving online discourse in a time where what we need most is mutual understanding and respect.

[3adawi]

I don't think think is entirely true, truth social was just MAGA echo-chamber, Bluesky has a much wider net - i see a lot of academia, tech, artists, environmentalists, a lot of small communities there - some have migrated completely over there

[tokinonagare]

The elevator pitch for this service is indeed "X for leftists". This is why journalists are flocking to it, and speaking about it, despite it being totally irrelevant, just like X is.

[jauntywundrkind]

I'd put it more like X but with open data, open APIs, and the ability to control your feed & collaboratively improve your experience with 3rd party feeds, moderations, and algorithms.

The left thing seems incredibly incidental. This feels like the first time the social networks are offering any serious tools for protection & shielding ourselves from wild content & algorithms, giving us the power to define our social network experience. The right could benefit just as much, build their own good experience. It would need to be built around something other than in your face razzing on people on the left though!