Ah, Bluesky—the supposed progressive utopia that’s quickly morphing into a techie’s worst nightmare. You’d think a platform created by Twitter’s own Jack Dorsey might have seen this coming. But no, in the grand tradition of fleeing to “better” pastures, left-leaning celebs, activists, and blue-check pundits have traded X for Bluesky. Their mission? To recreate the pre-Musk Twitter playground of 2020, complete with all the censorship, sanctimony, and selective outrage that came with it. Spoiler alert: it’s not going well.
Bluesky’s user base ballooned by 3 million in the past month, now sitting at a modest 15 million. Compare that to X’s 600 million+ users, and it’s clear why the left is still bitter about Elon Musk turning the bird app into his personal free-speech experiment. And while conservatives on X cheer the exodus, Bluesky is already buckling under the weight of its new Karen army.
In just 24 hours, Bluesky logged “42,000” reports. That’s over 3,000 “I’m offended!” flags per hour. For a platform that opened the invite floodgates less than a year ago, that’s an epic stress test—and not in a good way. It turns out that running a platform where everyone thinks they’re the hall monitor isn’t exactly sustainable.
Leading the migration? Your favorite progressive darlings, including Jamie Lee Curtis, Stephen King, Don Lemon, Joy Reid, and The Guardian. Don Lemon hilariously accused X of failing to support “transparency and honest debate.” That’s rich, coming from someone who thrived in an era where opposing voices were banned faster than you could say “shadowban.”
Let’s be real. This isn’t about transparency or debate. This is about leftists losing their monopoly on the narrative. They’ve gone from Twitter’s rigged TOS playground to a new site where, ironically, they’re the ones clogging the system.
The result? Bluesky is already starting to look less like a blue sky and more like a gray thundercloud. For those of us staying on X? Don’t forget to wave goodbye to the drama. Good riddance.
