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I wound up deleting Bluesky (too) when a political fight about border security started between two accounts I follow for 1990s video game nostalgic content.

unsurprisingly most of these top stories are left-leaning and political of nature given blueskys reputation as being a refuge for exactly that kind of content post-Elon twitter.

I was personally hopeful that blueskys tools for user content filtering and personal curation would let me rebuild an interesting list that was mostly politics free - I say that agnostically.

But my reality seems to be anybody regularly posting into these networks winds up catching the “mind virtus” from one side or the other and inevitably most accounts, wind up reposting or engaging in that kind of content.

I don’t have a strong point given this is a lazy Sunday afternoon comment other than I truly appreciate HNs mostly successful efforts to keep discourse focused

And I think the despite its flaws HN winds up being a good blueprint for how to admin, community interest, focused discussions, and I’m hopeful, others will pop up!

I filter out a lot of political stuff on Bluesky but it is hard to avoid right now. For some inexplicable reason a lot of people, no matter what they do, are talking about politics at the moment.

Are people still using Bluesky? It's been pegged at around 30M total (not sure of daily) users since it opened up.

Well then it sounds like around 30M users are using it.

Fair, I meant daily vs total users. User count I saw was from here: https://bsky-users.theo.io/

It replaced Twitter for me. I use Bluesky on a daily basis. Closed my Twitter account last week.

That just means you happen to be in the BS bubble, not that BS has growth potential outside that bubble. The top list shown on the site referred to here is a good example of what this bubble looks like and why BS is unlikely to grow much further. BS is Gab for 'progressives', a left-wing echo chamber. This does not mean that all content on the site is politically left-leaning but it does mean that anything which is in any way political ends up being such and that anyone who dares to voice dissent is treated like a dissident.

Pretty much everyone I know abandoned everything else, with the exception of a few Mastodon users. If it's at 30M still, that's probably the limit to how many people still care at all.

Like many hard-left spaces, they enable mass banning and blocking, enforces arcane speech codes, and imploded on itself quickly because the average person not only finds it bizarre but also boring and lifeless

Nonsense. Twitter is a scam porn cesspool.

I don't know what an arcane speech code might be, could I see an example of bsky enforcing this?

Yes they certainly are, with around 32M total users and >2.25M daily active users.

[0] https://bskycharts.edavis.dev/edavis.dev/bskycharts.edavis.d...

It opened more than 1 year ago, and they were celebrating 20m 4 months ago.

Not sure what you’re talking about but it only hit 30M users a little over a month ago.

Err too many redirects. Seems everyone has been sending hugs

BlueSky is a great tool, especially if you want to experiment with a decentralized protocol. Although I still think the big threat to X(Twitter) is Reddit.

Bluesky is just as vile as X is. Literally the other side and seemingly bots calling to eat the rich and Elon. Both sites are unbearable.

Somewhat monothematic and reactionary.

Would love to see this next to the top links on Twitter.

Is this open source?

I had the same question and I found the repo link in an about page linked at the bottom!

https://github.com/georgemblack/blue-report

“The Blue Report” seems an apt name.

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