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Many tech people left Twitter for Mastodon before Bluesky took off. Some also left for cohost, but unfortunately that has just closed down due to lack of funds.

I'm currently on bluesky, but that also has the "no sustainable funding" serious bug. Also it's a frankly miserable place until US election misery dies down, which may take a while.

It's a feedback loop as well; I refrain from saying anything too nerdy on BlueSky because it feels “off-topic”.

we add a category for programming, check it out here:

https://www.bskyinfo.com/feeds/software-development/

Mastodon probably has a lot more of that, at least it feels like it.

Yeah... Reddit's still the MVP here. But tbh I'd take the ghost town of BlueSky over what passes for programming discourse on X. Long since taken over by video producers and tech bros pushing their "grindset"