Come one, come all. Everyone is invited to Bluesky. Well, not everyone, exactly. This social media platform is taking the leftist world by storm, with 20 million individuals looking to occupy an echo chamber filled with grievances about President-elect Donald Trump, gripes of billionaire Elon Musk, and grumbles over anything to the right of Vice President Kamala Harris. Like Mark Zuckerberg’s flash-in-the-pan, Threads, will Bluesky have its 15 minutes of fame before the left returns to X?
Nothing But Bluesky Do I See
Bluesky has been around for a few years. What was once a project within the Twitter ecosystem under Jack Dorsey in 2019 transitioned into an independent venture in 2021. The platform launched in February 2023 through an invite-only process. By February 2024, Bluesky became open to the public. Months later, Dorsey resigned from the social network’s board and urged folks to stay on Musk’s X.
In the aftermath of the November presidential election, the app registered significant numbers, attracting one million users in a single week. Bluesky has also appealed to more than Bobby and Billy holding “I’m With Her” signs. Celebrities, such as eminent author Stephen King, writer and director Rob Reiner, and comedian Ben Stiller, have enrolled.
What else does Bluesky offer besides serving as a left-leaning alternative in the social media realm? The website functions similarly to the basic premise behind the X infrastructure: a free micro-blogging platform that allows users to post 300-character messages. But Bluesky CEO Jay Graber recently told CNBC’s Money Movers that the platform is more: It is “billionaire proof.”
“The billionaire proof is in the way everything is designed, and so if someone bought or if the Bluesky company went down, everything is open source,” Graber said. “What happened to Twitter couldn’t happen to us in the same ways, because you would always have the option to immediately move without having to start over.”
Bluesky is also ostensibly speech proof, as the entity has revealed itself to oppose conservative speech. With news that left-wing individuals have flocked to the app, the right has also joined to see what is happening. Instead of experiencing supposed peace, love, and harmony, conservatives have endured abuse and censorship.
Satirical publication The Babylon Bee, for example, was immediately censored by moderators, slapping labels of “intolerance” on its posts. Babylon Bee managing editor Joel Berry also received thoughtful messages, including “Your mother should have aborted you” and “Step into traffic.” Popular X account End Wokeness claimed it was banned from Bluesky within 30 seconds of posting, “There are only two genders.” The Quartering, another well-liked conservative-leaning X account, claimed it was suspended instantly after writing, “Hi haters.”
X account Libs of Bluesky has recorded a treasure trove of questionable content from users.
The censorship campaign makes sense. Jon Cooper, a Democratic activist and former Long Island campaign chair for former President Barack Obama, admitted to blocking users with MAGA in their profiles. “I’m happy to interact with conservatives on Bluesky, but MAGA cultists earn an instant block. We can’t let those hateful cockroaches gain a toehold here,” he wrote in a November 18 post. Others have urged their fellow leftists to report and block the flood of MAGA accounts.
A Blueprint for Boredom
Liberty Nation News scanned the Bluesky social media platform. If it is meant to compete with X, it will crumble like Threads, Mastodon, and other alternative outlets. Limited might be the best term to describe the website. Content, characters, and creativity are all limited on Bluesky. Perhaps it will satisfy the demand for digital safe spaces, a new ecosystem where the diversity of thought is absent. Whether Elon Musk is a protagonist or villain, X has transformed into the top social network on the Web, whether expressing views without fear of retribution or engaging with Grok AI. Bluesky will require much more than patients with TDS to survive and thrive.
Ultimately, those who fled to Bluesky will return to X, like the corporate advertisers who swore off Elon Musk. Well, Reiner may have already admitted defeat, writing on Bluesky: “This platform has turned into a vile cesspool already.”
