As someone who never used Bluesky or X, the only thing this article has convinced me of is that the author is terminally online. They seemingly ignore that all three of their "essential characteristics" are just byproducts of modernity. Dialectic digression and credentialism are the product of empiricism dominating the human spirit. Nobody prays to get rid of illness anymore, you go to the doctor so they can give you an empirically-tested cure. And it works better than prayer, hence, we worship digression and credentials.

Catastrophism is native to American politics. How, exactly, you live in a globalist world without forming an opinion on the matter is a study of sociopaths for someone else. There is no post-WWII America without the myth of catastrophe and salvation via nuclear war. We built this nation, and set the global status-quo, on the back of a global catastrophe. Ignoring that fact doesn't make you a better historian, it makes you blind.

Maybe those Bluesky users are just repeating the past 150 years of anthropological research that pertains to postmodern human politics. This Nate Silver guy would probably cream his shorts if he read Hegel.