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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Bluesky has done a great job of becoming a club for a lot of elite types who are alienated by X — academics, scientists, NGO leaders, journalists. I use it every day. But I have never used Threads and it hasn’t been a problem.