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There has been a lot of Bluesky shilling on social and legacy media over the last week. It almost seems intentional.

It is not the panacea they expect it to be. Most of these people don't even know what they're running from. Case in point, the histrionics in the very first sentence.

It's reminiscent of the Jonestown cult exiling themselves to Guyana.

A quick trip to the Bluesky homepage showed its feed promoting some of the very same political 'influencer' accounts that spew some of the most toxic and divisive content on X.

Folks packing up and running from X because their 'friends' are, unknowingly are bringing the cockroaches with them in their luggage.

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If Reddit has taught me anything it’s that the huge number of new subscribers is probably a large amount of bot owner accounts trying to make accounts to age for later use. They just like to say “x million accounts created” with no due diligence behind the accounts.

The difference is that on Bluesky you can subscribe to a list and block/mute everyone on it.

That way you'll never see any content from them, even if someone you follow shares it.

On Twitter Elon decides what you see and you can't block.

For me, it's the environment where all the boosted replies are all calling you a fag or doing Protocols-style antisemitism? I saw too much about "the Jews".

Do you really think the Jew-bots aren't going to follow to BlueSky if whoever is operating them sees an incentive to further their goals? That it's going to be some country club paradise?

These new accounts are not all organic users hopping over there for chill conversations and good vibes.

My personal theory - and I have no hard evidence - is these bot farms are operated by foreign threat actors trying to sow discord among the English-speaking populace. The venue where this happens is irrelevant.

Comparing it to Jonestown is ludicrous. Most of America didn't pack up and follow them out.

A more similar comparison would be the flight from MySpace or Digg. One day those places just weren't it, and everyone was talking about how much better the new place is. Some folks stayed behind, most of us moved, and some folks used it as a chance to get off the ride.

There's nothing conspiratorial here, everyone can see musk is a divisive figure. And I think everyone can see Twitter has changed. People look at blue sky and see something of the old Twitter and go, "I like it here, I should tell the people I know it's nice here."

But like Digg and MySpace, some people will stay behind, many will move, and some will use it to exit the game entirely.

> Most of these people don't even know what they're running from.

I think it's pretty obvious - Musk and Trump. (or rather Musk and pro-Musk/pro-Trump users and/or bots).

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