Matt Yglesias, a milquetoast centrist liberal Harris voter, founder of Vox, had his comments entirely brigaded by leftists doxing his old house, threatening him with hammers, and the highest liked comment is: "matty i hate to break it to you but the majority of this website would chase you around with a shovel" https://bsky.app/profile/manateejay.bsky.social/post/3k7x4lk...
You'd think if the milieu was intellectual, you'd have some reasonable debates about policy but it's all "gtfo" and threats.
Hopefully they get a handle on that; a reputation for lax moderation re:violence could easily deflate their sudden hype.
I am finding many astronomers on there and other scientists.
https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/twitter-academics-x-elon-...
If you’re interested in such things, make sure to scroll through the “feeds” and sub to a few relevant ones. There’s also a “starter packs” feature allowing aggregators to suggest people to follow. As of now the social science spaces are a little quiet in comparison to tech, politics, and astronomy, but I have hope they’ll grow.
As Twitter becomes more and more monocultural, the exodus of academics will only accelerate, IMHO. I mean, they have NPR on Bluesky! Can’t beat that.
What's weird is that PBS isn't on Bluesky (yet) because didn't Musk start to treat them very toxicly and label them "state-affiliated" (which is ridiculous).
I'd really like PBS SpaceTime on Bluesky, there is an unofficial bot but the real thing for interaction would be great.
> Bluesky’s upcoming premium plan won’t give paid users special treatment
https://www.engadget.com/social-media/blueskys-upcoming-prem...
That said, if anyone can make it work, it's the team there. It's no accident the CEO was able to navigate Bluesky's exit from Twitter.
https://mastodon-analytics.com/
I would be interested in some stats that compare the number of active users, and also number of users who actually made use of decentralization features (i.e. use a custom domain instead of bsky.social).
Yeah, crypto bros.
