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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Threads has a structural advantage here, so it’s not even a fair fight

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Chose the correct growth axis (politics).

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

Threads has a captured audience so doesn't count

Threads are extremely popular in colonies actually

That’s because social networks are often replaced by actual social interactions.

I intended to use Bluesky much more, but then ended up on farcaster...