matthewb.eth
@matthewb
bluesky is gaining mindshare because they found PMF with users who want to be surrounded by people who (mostly) agree with them. it’s political affiliation, not vision.
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GIGAMΞSH
@gigamesh
I’m very skeptical they’d be growing as fast as they are if the sales pitch was “bluesky is twitter but more politically left content moderation”
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matthewb.eth
@matthewb
that’s why people are joining from twitter, which they now see as right wing coded due to Elon same thing with users defecting from meta “because of AI” which has become right wing coded how else do you explain that Bluesky’s user base is overwhelmingly left wing, a group that has never previously expressed much interest in decentralized anything, whether social apps or otherwise?
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shazow
@shazow.eth
Both can be true. Reality is that people are fleeing Twitter. Most because all their friends had already left or because their feeds feel toxic or because they don't want to support Elon or whatever. It doesn't matter. What matters is that Bluesky is there and offers a fairly comparable experience to 2014-era Twitter, which is what most people crave. The app is snappy, the feel is familiar, the API is open, it has some newfangled bells and whistles they heard mentioned but maybe don't care about (less centralized, labellers, choose your own moderation/timeline algo, etc). Maybe the first few people left because of politics, but the last people to leave will do so because they just want to be where their friends are (regardless of their own political affiliation).
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matthewb.eth
@matthewb
yes, agree with what you’re saying for the most part I just think it’s misleading and inaccurate to say that the current crop of users is migrating because of Bluesky’s superior “vision.” it’s largely viewed as anti-Elon/anti-Zuck and loosely left-coded, regardless of the product’s attempted positioning or messaging. that might change over time, but that’s the current situation.
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shazow
@shazow.eth
I agree, I don't believe in a singular "vision" (pretty tired of the whole "north star" debate of ETH/SOL) -- there's always narratives, and some stick longer than others, but the meme changes all the time. IMO it's also misleading to overindex on left/right-coded. I've had so many friends in the early days write off crypto because it was too right-coded for them. I don't think they were right then (early days was just a bunch of curious nerds who were awestruck by the possibilities of this new technology), and I don't think they're right now (it's such a multi-faceted technology and community, there is collectivism and individualism intermixed throughout). Not to mention that the left/right axis is just reductionist to begin with. I don't doubt that there's a wave of people who got pitched "it's twitter but less right-wing" and were like "omg sign me up", and that's fine but I don't think that's a persistent view or relevant to how it's being used.
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