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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Honestly I have no idea. I have had a pretty good experience on it but it does feel like old twitter. Maybe it’s just a narrow scope of people who want that experience in an age of so much other competition ie TikTok, threads etc

Why do you think this is? When I was using it, I didn't find the feed very engaging - probably because I only used the starter packs to find people to follow

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

Anecdotally I don’t use it as much since the outrage culture just wears you out

You can only sustain that level of energy for so long

It's very politically focused, my newly elected progressive major is posting there and not to twitter.

I got very good traction with this:

It's very politically focused, my newly elected progressive major is posting there and not to twitter.

I got very good traction with this:

https://bsky.app/profile/allenbarth.bsky.social/post/3lpbam3l5xc2v

i tried it a few times but i can’t 🤷🏻‍♀️

Looks like they got a wave of new users in Mr Musk hate sprint, but apparently these users did not stick.

Bluesky is garbage tried it didn’t like it got rid of it