Democrats flee X for Bluesky amid Musk-Trump alliance

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5004967-elon-musk-donald-trump-alliance-democrats-x-bluesky/

36 comments

  1. I deleted X when em took it over. If I had more accounts to delete I would do it.

  2. Oh man. Two tweetverses for two different universes.

    Half of America goes crazy with hatred due to weird obsessions, and the rest of us have to avoid them like the plague. Next they’ll be saying fluoride is Satan.

  6. I work as a marketing manager for a mid sized company, stopped using twitter shortly after musk. Too toxic for marketing

  7. Man it would be super embarrassing to be publicly forced to buy a platform, run it into the ground, get called a Dipshit, and then nobody wants to hang out anymore.

  9. I hate this framing that people are fleeing. People are spending more time on a social activity that they enjoy more. I use a variety of social networks. Lately, on X, I rarely get engagement, and when I read the comments section of other people’s posts they’re mostly just terrible. On BlueSky I get engagement and conversations are interesting. Why wouldn’t I spend more time there?

  10. It’s not just “democrats”. The platform is operationally a dumpster fire, bots galore, and most of the content is crap. But, I guess “left vs right” headlines sells more adds.

  11. That entire site has been a shit hole for a decade. The fact people even still use this trash is pathetic.

  12. They didn’t flee they just moved to a platform that wasn’t super anti 1st amendment like X is.

  13. I left awhile ago because while it was never perfect, it really developed technical issues under Musk. Bots all over, the app kept crashing, search issues, etc. It just became not worth the hassle.

  16. Here’s the thing: at the end of the day, it really doesn’t matter to Elon. Sure, leave X. It’s served its purpose. It helped spread disinformation and voter apathy. It helped elect Donald Trump and bought Elon a seat at the table. Helping to make decisions that help him and his other businesses. When it all comes crashing down he will be king of the ashes.

    He has no use for X now. He can sell it at a massive loss and still made away like a bandit.

  17. Bluesky is like 2010 Twitter. It’s great. And no ads or Trumpy stuff forced into my feeds. I’ll never go back to X. Elon made it terrible.

  18. I never really engaged much with twitter, like anyone cares. But I signed up for blue sky just to make musk pissed off.

  19. “Flee” sounds like running away out of fear or something. I don’t think abandoning a mismanaged dumpster fire of a social network cesspool qualifies as “fleeing”

  21. The Musk-Trump-Miller Axis. Haven’t heard anything about him lately, but I know Stephen Miller is lurking close by.

  22. I left X because my mental health cannot deal with opening the app and seeing videos of car crashes and violence. Blue sky allows me to chill with books and cats.

  23. It’s so nice Bluesky has actual conversations about information and topics that aren’t just pointless mudslinging nonstop. You can scroll and scroll and not see anything except stuff that’s **actually interesting**.

  25. Correction: anyone with any sense whatsoever is getting off of Twitter.

  26. Deleted xitter account when musk bought it. Mastodon is probably great, but I’m not its audience. Just signed on for bluesky. Frankly happy to support anything that is a credible alternative. We shall see.

  27. I don’t think it’s just “Democrats”. Anyone who doesn’t want to have their feed or timeline or whatever, clogged up with far-right, alt-right, garbage is leaving. Anybody who doesn’t agree with Elon becoming owner of anything you post on Twitter is likely leaving. Elon has really made that site or app a completely useless piece of garbage. It’s not only not user-friendly, it’s downright user-hostile. I haven’t checked out Bluesky, but I left Twitter years ago and I would never go back.

  28. Not only democrats…. But people with a working brain which is a very encouraging sign. Tired of being manipulated

  30. >Just as Americans increasingly read or watch traditional media with political perspectives that mirror their own, they are seeking out social media networks where they are more likely to be with people they agree with than who see things differently.

    Lol what an unnecessary dig at the end of the article.

    The left is not leaving social media platforms because they want echo chambers. That’s literally what the right did with Truth social. People are seeking out new social medias that are moderated better and provide features for the users to protect themselves. Twitter has been dismantling these features (like making the block feature defunct), allowing people to pay for their right-wing content to be seen at the top of the comment sections, and many, many other things that allow the right to abuse anyone they want. People are not looking for echo chambers, they’re looking for safer and less antagonistic platforms.

  31. About goddamn time. still not making a blue sky either but I am glad that others are quitting. if trends continue that will cause some big changes here too.

  32. Not even just Democrats, just people that are tired of fucking loud obnoxious MAGA people on their platform. it’s like IRL 4chan trolls come to life.

  33. … it would have been really great if this was done a year ago but i guess better late than never.

  34. Might as well call it truth social, there’s no difference at this point. Glad bluesky exists

  35. a lot of them were switching because of the block function actually, the election has just poured accelerant on the burning ship they’re all jumping from.

  36. I released a video game this year. Marketing a game was new to me, so I learned a lot, but something I consistently heard from production companies and producers working with us was “put your shit everywhere so people
    will see it… but don’t worry about twitter. It’s a cesspool. If you want to sure but I don’t waste my time in that dark void” or something along those lines.

    I’ve never really been a social media guy, and if I was I wouldn’t be touching Xitter anyway because Musk is a turd, but after having to dive into it for our company, I realized just how truly awful Xitter is – professionally or personally. Big ew.

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