Comment by echelon
2 hours ago
Early BlueSky was seeded by furries, the trans community, socialist Democrats, and left-wing folks fleeing an overly Republican/MAGA Twitter.
The system was invite-based, meaning these people invited their friends. And those people invited their friends of friends.
The community was seeded by a very political base at its inception. The general feed the average user saw when opening the app was activist-political, furry art, dildos, and outrage. This continued for a year, I think?
This is not very welcoming to a general audience, and it severely knee-capped Bluesky's growth trajectory.
Here's the front page of Bluesky for a new user today:
Yes, I understand now that this is what the poster I was replying to was saying. But it's different from that poster's original argument, which I took to be that there was something inherent to the invite process that resulted in a politically one-sided user base.
But really, it's that Twitter shifted hard-right to literal Nazism, and so people left. Which is completely understandable.