"Bluesky has seen explosive growth in the last few weeks - hitting 20 million users. Since the election, it's gone from a sleepy niche app to a bustling destination that resembles pre-Muskian Twitter."
"What made Twitter so Twitter-y in its prime was a certain mix of users - brainiacs and wannabe brainiacs, but also normal people. What Bluesky has right now is a ton of new users, mostly of a certain type - the brainiac set."
"From what I can tell, the users who've been joining Bluesky en masse recently are members of the big blob of liberal-to-left-wing journalists, academics, lawyers, and tech workers...I don't want to understate the importance of this group's defection to Bluesky."
"These are people with an absolute, almost pathological commitment to producing free content for short-form posting websites; they make a significant impact on shaping the culture and norms of platforms."
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