I cancelled my Twitter account in 2021 or so.

I tried X again at some later point, I think even twice.

A fresh account bombards you with far-right propaganda and outright lies. At the time at least this included hateful and incoherent rambling by Musk himself, which you couldn't unfollow (or ignore, it simply didn't work).

Call it ideological, but I'm not going to spend my free time with this "content", especially when the platform clearly disregards repeated signals that I don't want to read hateful ideological propaganda comment no 73646445 by some alt right shill.

I'm all for open discourse and dealing with other peoples differing opinions.

But at this point, the "ideology" accusation by the far right against any other opinion is nothing but laughable. Well, it would be, if people didn't still pay it credibility.

And no, I'm not a "leftist", "transgender activist", or whatever group gets to be public enemy of the day for these people.

I did notice that Bluesky seems to have more politically left people.

This kind of content is not very interesting to me, we already have Reddit.

But for Bluesky, the platform bubble phenomenon didn't seem that strong to me.

Appreciate the new features to build my own (interest) bubble.

For political content, I think actual journalism and real-life discourse are most valuable.

personally i think there are two significantly larger reasons:

1) terrible experience: a lot of people just don’t have fun on twitter, it’s just an awful experience. why spend your free funtime in a place that you just don’t enjoy? we don’t go to restaurants that we hate, why on earth would we go to a website that we don’t enjoy?

2) too crowded. take a music concert for example, a lot of people absolutely prefer a music venue with 2,000 people over a concert where there are 100,000 people.

It sounds like you’re saying that Bluesky users are actually just throwing a giant fit.

That has not been my experience at all.

Doesn’t have to be your experience to be true for the vast majority.