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Luca Sironi | 10 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 @7fqx @🦖 

I think people tried bluesky, threads and the even more futile attempts, for the wrong reasons and now they are getting disappointed for the wrong reasons. You can't expect a centralized social network to have all the people of the world, but just the ones you like.

Maybe with bridges amongst social network, people will finally decide to settle in a place and stay
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7fqx | 10 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 It looks like there was some sort of effort to make bluesky the Twitter Left's exodus from elon's twitter. (Not sure how (or even if) that happened, naturally or via influencers). But it seems to be defended along those lines and unwelcoming to anything outside of that - via shared mute lists and shouting(?). 

I think somewhere in that link is a mention of threads being more approachable by sitting somewhere centrist inside the political compass. And probably does well like that for a bit. Although Instagram is brutal for automated censorships, warnings and bannings. But maybe that is so well known now it's not a big deal.

But yeah I think you're right, I think people are fleeing Elon. If that's what you mean by the wrong reasons? Which is sort of why I think threads ultimately fails against twitter, as he seems to be a defender of the centre.