Twitter/X vs. Blue Sky
Comparing the two user bases.
Lots of left of center people, tired of losing arguments on Twitter (which Elon Musk has renamed after his favorite letter X), have since the election bailed out to the more agreeable confines of Blue Sky.
Technically, Blue Sky is an extremely easy adjustment for long time Twitter users, whereas, say, Mastodon, which was supposed to take over a few years ago when Musk bought Twitter, apparently was not.
(However, the natural abbreviation for Blue Sky is unfortunate.)
It would be interesting to find out if the Blue Sky corporation follows Elon Musk's lean staffing philosophy (as you’ll recall, Musk fired most Twitter employees, which was supposed to ensure the doom of Twitter, but it did not.)
I suspect that Blue Sky does.
Like the blind man inspecting the elephant, it's hard to get an all-around sense of Blue Sky's user base vs. Twitter's, but my vague impressions are that Blue Sky posters, by way of analogy, seem like the residents of refined suburban Westchester County, while Twitter/X seems like the denizens of vulgar/demented/brilliant New York City.
Blue Sky posters seem to be:
More female
Older (or, when more positively phrased, more mature)
More genteel
More upper middle in intellect (fewer morons or prodigies)
Blue Sky has more respectables, while Twitter has more jerks and geniuses.
I hope to see BS (love that!) succeed. Why? By reinforcing their “values” and mindset among their own, it will give them the strength to double down on issues that they lose the majority on. They will genuinely be flummoxed- just like in the recent election- when they lose over something they were convinced they were going to win… because everyone around them agreed with them. It really is that easy to accomplish with them.
The “jerks and geniuses” was a bit harsh, Steve…. but happy to be amongst them:)
I prefer Substack and blogs. Twitter/X and its doppelganger BlueSky are fine as far as it goes, but the format tends to be dominated by short attention span types (limits to number of characters per tweet, etc.). Similar to how TikTok (very short length videos) now seems to dominate the video website space, with both Facebook and YouTube fielding their own copycat versions ('Reels" and "Shorts"). It's the mass communication version of going to Las Vegas (or any state that now has legal gambling), and pushing the slot machine button to watch the brilliantly lit, pretty pictures whirl and stop.