Bluesky was right all along and will accept your apology any time - Fast Company
Many savvy pundits on X framed the 2024 election as a massive political realignment and Bluesky as a “copium” den for progressives in a bubble. Boy, were they wrong.

Bluesky And X Users Plummet Year After Trump’s Election Win—Truth Social Makes Small Gains
Bluesky, a liberal-leaning social platform that welcomed hordes of users disillusioned by Elon Musk’s X, hasn’t sustained its surge in activity after President Donald Trump won a second term.

Bluesky is backfiring. Mark Cuban says the 'lack of diversity of thought' is actually pushing users back to X | Fortune
The billionaire argues Bluesky’s liberal-heavy user base creates an echo chamber.

With Bluesky, the social media echo chamber is back in vogue
The great migration from Elon Musk’s X has seen users, especially progressives, retreat into one particular silo

2026 Midterm Election Results: Latest Updates
Democrats decisively take the Senate and House. The question now: How far will the blue wave go?

Is Bluesky dying?
An attempt to untangle a few different arguments around the future of Bluesky – if it has one

Is Bluesky dying?
An attempt to untangle a few different arguments around the future of Bluesky – if it has one

Paper discussions on Bluesky at VIS 2026
How VIS 2026 puts a Bluesky thread under every paper.
How Elon Musk and Big Tech Poured Millions Into the Midterms, and Lost
This week on “Uncanny Valley,” we discuss the historic blue wave that swept the midterms and delivered a rebuke to the Trump administration, Big Tech, and data centers.

Trump Administration's Arrival on Bluesky Highlights Growing Pains for Open Networks
"It’s no accident that US political operatives have been singling out Bluesky as a target for political control and retribution for months." But the result puts protocol developers and the users of their networks in opposition.
One thing I hope people take away from the evidence that bluesky actually was a high-information community and X was actually a fascist make-believe bubble, is that spending your day as a large account resharing fascist propaganda from X on to bluesky is a social behavior akin to pissing in the pool
X is still better than Bluesky at combating misinformation
Grace
Clearing up a misconception I’m seeing floating around: OpenAI didn’t “misconfigure” Artifactory to allow agents to make arbitrary network requests. The agents exploited a zero day vulnerability in Artifactory to be able to do this.
In the past, Bluesky has been accused of being a liberal echo chamber due to it's growth during an exodus from X. Here are articles arguing that the 2026 US midterm elections demonstrated Bluesky more accurately represented voters, and X was actually the echo chamber.
Jokes aside, Bluesky effectively replaced the blogosphere of 2002-2009 which drove the blue wave of 2006 and election of Barack Obama in 2008. Politically homogeneous social media is GOOD for organizing and generating enthusiasm. We need to protect it this time.
Matt Browner Hamlin
In the end, the "Joe Rogan of the Left" was the friends we made on BlueSky along the way...