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.

Bluesky has its own flavor of anti-intellectualism and in-group vs out-group dynamics, with the usual descent into violent behavior towards those they disagree with. The way they reacted to Jesse Singal made it clear to me I don’t need to be there.

The crazies on one side hang out on X, the crazies on the other side hang out on Bluesky. Both aggresively intolerant of any view not in line with theirs.