Being in academia (or very adjacent to it), there are two types of BlueSky users:

1) The ones that moved because of ideological reasons 2) The ones that moved b/c Twitter became a desolate hellscape.

I'm closer to (2) than to (1), and the difference between 2024 and 2020-2022 twitter is stark. Before, if you had an interesting tweet about a new article you would get lots of engagement (retweets, discussions, people disagreeing and pushing back).

Now? Nothing, just a few random retweets or comments from non-academic people that almost feel LLM-generated. Compound this with network effects, and even my right-wing pro-Trump colleagues (and there are some) decided to at the very least dual-post.