I guess that’s why it seems so dead for me. I’ve filtered out as many political terms and names as I can think of. I average about five new posts in my feed every day and they’re from medical science people I follow. There’s just no escaping politics these days.
NothingOld7527 on
Looks like they’re falling prey to the biggest killer of new social media platforms – becoming explicitly political and not much else.
BrotherMichigan on
I feel like this has been true every day since its inception.
Re-Created on
This can’t be surprising, switching to it is a filter by politics. It would be weird if all the people who made an action motivated by politics suddenly stopped caring about it.
arcticrabbitz on
No sports at all is inane to me
LegendOfVinnyT on
What would this look like with a sports category? I know my feed was jumping yesterday, from Alex Ovechkin breaking Wayne Gretzky’s all-time goals record to UConn feeding South Carolina into a wood chipper in the NCAA women’s basketball championship.
Ansiando on
BlueSky is ALL politics.
I had to block like 400 accounts just so it’d begin to stop spamming me with politics, and that’s on a fresh account with no expressed interest in it.
minepose98 on
If it can’t diversify from being a political echo chamber, it’s doomed to never surpass Twitter/X.
dancingbanana123 on
I would love to see this compared to other social media platforms. It’s kind of hard to infer much about bluesky particularly without other platforms to compare.
onlyfakeproblems on
What is the blip of science at 1:30 am?
DigiQuip on
The reason bluesky blew up in the first place was because of Twitter’s censoring of politics. So like, this shouldn’t be a surprise. That being said, my own little bubble of baseball and science is expanding quite a bit and I’m finding it less difficult to stay connected solely with Bluesky.
DigiQuip on
The reason bluesky blew up in the first place was because of Twitter’s censoring of politics. So like, this shouldn’t be a surprise. That being said, my own little bubble of baseball and science is expanding quite a bit and I’m finding it less difficult to stay connected solely with Bluesky.
OkMuffin8303 on
It would be wierd if this wasn’t the case. People only got on bluesky if they were politically motivated to leave twitter. I doubt anyone made it for the sheet purpose of social medja
No-Strategy-9365 on
I’m surprised sports isn’t a category
IsadoresDad on
Love that 1:30 AM science blip 😉
_Zaga_ on
**Source**: Bluesky firehose data, run through a custom topic classifier
**Tool**: Aggregated with Grafana, rendered via Nivo
![[OC] What are people talking about on Bluesky in the last 24 hours?](https://www.byteseu.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2vek7bbyofte1-1024x686.png "[OC] What are people talking about on Bluesky in the last 24 hours?")
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I guess that’s why it seems so dead for me. I’ve filtered out as many political terms and names as I can think of. I average about five new posts in my feed every day and they’re from medical science people I follow. There’s just no escaping politics these days.
Looks like they’re falling prey to the biggest killer of new social media platforms – becoming explicitly political and not much else.
I feel like this has been true every day since its inception.
This can’t be surprising, switching to it is a filter by politics. It would be weird if all the people who made an action motivated by politics suddenly stopped caring about it.
No sports at all is inane to me
What would this look like with a sports category? I know my feed was jumping yesterday, from Alex Ovechkin breaking Wayne Gretzky’s all-time goals record to UConn feeding South Carolina into a wood chipper in the NCAA women’s basketball championship.
BlueSky is ALL politics.
I had to block like 400 accounts just so it’d begin to stop spamming me with politics, and that’s on a fresh account with no expressed interest in it.
If it can’t diversify from being a political echo chamber, it’s doomed to never surpass Twitter/X.
I would love to see this compared to other social media platforms. It’s kind of hard to infer much about bluesky particularly without other platforms to compare.
What is the blip of science at 1:30 am?
The reason bluesky blew up in the first place was because of Twitter’s censoring of politics. So like, this shouldn’t be a surprise. That being said, my own little bubble of baseball and science is expanding quite a bit and I’m finding it less difficult to stay connected solely with Bluesky.
The reason bluesky blew up in the first place was because of Twitter’s censoring of politics. So like, this shouldn’t be a surprise. That being said, my own little bubble of baseball and science is expanding quite a bit and I’m finding it less difficult to stay connected solely with Bluesky.
It would be wierd if this wasn’t the case. People only got on bluesky if they were politically motivated to leave twitter. I doubt anyone made it for the sheet purpose of social medja
I’m surprised sports isn’t a category
Love that 1:30 AM science blip 😉
**Source**: Bluesky firehose data, run through a custom topic classifier
**Tool**: Aggregated with Grafana, rendered via Nivo
An interactive version can be found here: [dazzle.fm/stats](https://dazzle.fm/stats)
So basically, people saw twitter becoming a right wing echo chamber, and thought a left wing echo chamber was the solution? Great job everyone
First rule of Bluesky, you don’t talk about Bluesky?
Is this for the entirety of bluesky or just english content?
I, too, feel a sudden need to talk about science at 1 am.
Is bluesky just an echo chamber for angry liberals
What timezone is this? UTC? US?
We are going to have a frenzy of political runners for office in the future