So i agree with you partly, but Reddit suffers too imo. Notably it feels like the arbitrary walls of Subreddits impose friction that is painful.

I feel like what i personally want is a Twitter-like UX but with content organized automatically like Reddit.

Ie i want to follow topics, like Reddit, but without the walls - like Twitter. Twitter has tags, sure, but that assumes people use them well.

Bluesky might have this a big with moderated feeds? Just not sure how well a feed can start opting into topics.

RSS still works.

I've seen reports of the fediverse getting a bump in users. End of the day you will almost never see news about it because it has no marketing budget, and offers no investment opportunity. Money talks.

It remains imo the best social platform because of those reasons.

Just as Android is a popular Linux kernel-based OS because it discarded the desktop Linux userland, Bluesky is, successfully it turns out, a case of being open, federated, and popular because they focused on product, not on existing standards that hadn't quite hit critical mass.

When Twitter was sold there were many articles about Mastodon, but it seems that BlueSky got critical mass now.

Anyone who left Twitter for political reasons is unlikely to return. The climate there has long since passed the tipping point.

It's not just election results. A lot of scientists have moved over because Bluesky is a lot like "old Twitter".

Here is an article from Science about it [1]. Nature also covered this [2].

[1] https://www.science.org/content/article/old-twitter-scientif...

[2] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03784-6

No it's over, critical mass has been reached. Bluesky won.

As really active ex-user of Twitter I suddenly had no reason to open it anymore as my feed in there is now less active than on Bluesky - most of the people I liked to follow either made the move or are double posting. There's just no reason to open Twitter anymore and I'm not really sure how it would change.

Agree the article could have been better written but I don't think the fundamentals behind why people are leaving the corporate internet behind are going to change soon. Nobody that left because of trolling and abuse is going back for instance.

I don't see why people would go back to Twitter if they find the experience on Bluesky better, regardless of why they moved.

> People will go back to Twitter

What's Twitter?

It all boils down to the one and only techbro that you should like. All other techbros are false-prophets, and by proxy their short-text based social network is also bad.

> the people who want to control every aspect of your life [...] hate Musk

But Musk is a politician that controls a large portion of people's lives. He markets cars that people trust with their lives, he owns a social media that fewer and fewer people continue to trust, and he lies to Americans in order to fund Chinese job creation and rake in government subsidies for literal vaporware products.

It frankly seems like Musk is the one controlling things and people are right to call him out for changing things for the worse. It also sounds like Elon has an asshole personality, which people clearly don't respond well to. If you think "woke astroturfing" is bad, you should see how American taxpayers respond to people claiming they don't respect Elon enough. We respect him alright, but he doesn't respect us.