I guess that’s why it seems so dead for me. I’ve filtered out as many political terms and names as I can think of. I average about five new posts in my feed every day and they’re from medical science people I follow. There’s just no escaping politics these days.
Looks like they’re falling prey to the biggest killer of new social media platforms – becoming explicitly political and not much else.
I feel like this has been true every day since its inception.
This can’t be surprising, switching to it is a filter by politics. It would be weird if all the people who made an action motivated by politics suddenly stopped caring about it.
No sports at all is inane to me
What would this look like with a sports category? I know my feed was jumping yesterday, from Alex Ovechkin breaking Wayne Gretzky’s all-time goals record to UConn feeding South Carolina into a wood chipper in the NCAA women’s basketball championship.
BlueSky is ALL politics.
I had to block like 400 accounts just so it’d begin to stop spamming me with politics, and that’s on a fresh account with no expressed interest in it.
If it can’t diversify from being a political echo chamber, it’s doomed to never surpass Twitter/X.
I would love to see this compared to other social media platforms. It’s kind of hard to infer much about bluesky particularly without other platforms to compare.
What is the blip of science at 1:30 am?
The reason bluesky blew up in the first place was because of Twitter’s censoring of politics. So like, this shouldn’t be a surprise. That being said, my own little bubble of baseball and science is expanding quite a bit and I’m finding it less difficult to stay connected solely with Bluesky.
It would be wierd if this wasn’t the case. People only got on bluesky if they were politically motivated to leave twitter. I doubt anyone made it for the sheet purpose of social medja
I’m surprised sports isn’t a category
Love that 1:30 AM science blip 😉
**Source**: Bluesky firehose data, run through a custom topic classifier
**Tool**: Aggregated with Grafana, rendered via Nivo
So basically, people saw twitter becoming a right wing echo chamber, and thought a left wing echo chamber was the solution? Great job everyone
First rule of Bluesky, you don’t talk about Bluesky?
Is this for the entirety of bluesky or just english content?
I, too, feel a sudden need to talk about science at 1 am.
Is bluesky just an echo chamber for angry liberals
What timezone is this? UTC? US?
We are going to have a frenzy of political runners for office in the future
It’s all people talk about everywhere because that’s what keeps the poor, poor and divided.
Is there ever a day when politics and news *aren’t* the runaway winners on Bluesky?
So bluesky is essentially just Twitter for politics
I swear it was better in the two months between Election Day and inauguration. The critical mass started arriving and all the sports accounts I followed were active. I barely see sports skeets anymore.
It’s annoying as someone who left Xitter primarily because it was becoming useless for the things I used it for (chronological newsfeed, place to livetweet and follow running commentary on sporting events).
No one discusses science at 1am. Every one knows that. It’s just science.
Don’t forget talking about other social media such as Twitter/X, Facebook/Instagram, TikTok etc – that has to be #2 after politics although there is overlap if they are discussing a political tweet.
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I guess that’s why it seems so dead for me. I’ve filtered out as many political terms and names as I can think of. I average about five new posts in my feed every day and they’re from medical science people I follow. There’s just no escaping politics these days.
Looks like they’re falling prey to the biggest killer of new social media platforms – becoming explicitly political and not much else.
I feel like this has been true every day since its inception.
This can’t be surprising, switching to it is a filter by politics. It would be weird if all the people who made an action motivated by politics suddenly stopped caring about it.
No sports at all is inane to me
What would this look like with a sports category? I know my feed was jumping yesterday, from Alex Ovechkin breaking Wayne Gretzky’s all-time goals record to UConn feeding South Carolina into a wood chipper in the NCAA women’s basketball championship.
BlueSky is ALL politics.
I had to block like 400 accounts just so it’d begin to stop spamming me with politics, and that’s on a fresh account with no expressed interest in it.
If it can’t diversify from being a political echo chamber, it’s doomed to never surpass Twitter/X.
I would love to see this compared to other social media platforms. It’s kind of hard to infer much about bluesky particularly without other platforms to compare.
What is the blip of science at 1:30 am?
The reason bluesky blew up in the first place was because of Twitter’s censoring of politics. So like, this shouldn’t be a surprise. That being said, my own little bubble of baseball and science is expanding quite a bit and I’m finding it less difficult to stay connected solely with Bluesky.
It would be wierd if this wasn’t the case. People only got on bluesky if they were politically motivated to leave twitter. I doubt anyone made it for the sheet purpose of social medja
I’m surprised sports isn’t a category
Love that 1:30 AM science blip 😉
**Source**: Bluesky firehose data, run through a custom topic classifier
**Tool**: Aggregated with Grafana, rendered via Nivo
An interactive version can be found here:Â [dazzle.fm/stats](https://dazzle.fm/stats)
So basically, people saw twitter becoming a right wing echo chamber, and thought a left wing echo chamber was the solution? Great job everyone
First rule of Bluesky, you don’t talk about Bluesky?
Is this for the entirety of bluesky or just english content?
I, too, feel a sudden need to talk about science at 1 am.
Is bluesky just an echo chamber for angry liberals
What timezone is this? UTC? US?
We are going to have a frenzy of political runners for office in the future
It’s all people talk about everywhere because that’s what keeps the poor, poor and divided.
Is there ever a day when politics and news *aren’t* the runaway winners on Bluesky?
So bluesky is essentially just Twitter for politics
I swear it was better in the two months between Election Day and inauguration. The critical mass started arriving and all the sports accounts I followed were active. I barely see sports skeets anymore.
It’s annoying as someone who left Xitter primarily because it was becoming useless for the things I used it for (chronological newsfeed, place to livetweet and follow running commentary on sporting events).
No one discusses science at 1am. Every one knows that. It’s just science.
Don’t forget talking about other social media such as Twitter/X, Facebook/Instagram, TikTok etc – that has to be #2 after politics although there is overlap if they are discussing a political tweet.
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