Lately, I've been more active on Bluesky (different topic, different anon), and it's growing pretty fast. Given Elon has oriented Twitter towards anti-intellectualism, certain communities have moved wholesale already, particularly academia related. It's basically just Twitter without the bloat, but slower still... Farcaster is more interesting to me, but Bluesky has won the attention game - no one knows Farcaster exists outside the niche crypto crowd.

Yep, academia has been pioneer and quite consistent on Bluesky since one year ago at least. First channels I saw that were from anthropologists, biologists, climate scientists and even really niche channels focused on sharks, insects, biology drawing artists,…