Bluesky isn’t just an echo chamber — the posts and follows are falling off since the peak around the November election.

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Building social networks with retention is extremely difficult. They have done the best job in recently (other than Threads).

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What do you think they did well? What did bluesky do better than others in terms of growth and retention tactics?

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Chose the correct growth axis (politics).

Sorry, the growth axis was anti Elon, which is a loose political affiliation. 

It’s not topic based. Topic based communities have a lot of inertia to switching. Better features / tools is not compelling enough.

Do you think about taking a stance on 5-10 growth axises for farcaster? 

Like are there 5-10 topics/axis that could be more of a focus for growth