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.