I'm Seeing a Strong Shift to Bluesky by SLers --- Including Cajsa, Who Just Closed Her Huge Twitter/X Account

New World Notes columnist Cajsa Lilliehook just locked up her fairly large X/Twitter account (with nearly 20,000 followers) and opened up shop in Bluesky here.

I wasn't surprised when she told me this last night (for reasons I'll explain below), but it's actually part of a larger trend:

In the last couple weeks, my mostly dormant Bluesky account suddenly exploded with hundreds of new followers, most of them SL/virtual world-themed. (OK, maybe "exploded" is a bit hyperbolic, but certainly a fierce fucking puff of activity.) And there's more:

Philip Rosedale just joined Bluesky.

The official Second Life account too.

Plus here's a large Bluesky thread of SLers to announce yourself and meet others there! 

Also other metaverse platforms including Rec Room and VRChat are active on Bluesky.

This is part of an even larger trend, as Bluesky recently hit 20 million active users, in great part in an exile move from Twitter/X in the wake of the US election. That was the thing which pushed Cajsa herself over the blue edge:

"So many [last] straws, I could weave a basket," as Cajsa puts it to me. "Musk's tweets. the disinformation, his duplicitous ad campaign, pretending to be advertising Harris. All of it. But, I had a pleasant Twitter environment with frequent use of blocking. I had blocked over 50,000 people. You can imagine, doing GOP Predators, I would get some doozies." (She's referring to her other X account, documenting right-wing sexual predators and enablers.) "Of course, Elon ended blocking, another reason to leave."

As for me, I'll probably keeping using Twitter/X along with my Bluesky, unless and until there's full escape velocity with the latter. 

As for Cajsa, she's still partly on Twitter/X -- but just to keep updating GOP Predators. 

Comments

[HectorC2]

Always good to have more than one option. Now, you won't find me on LinkedIn. LOL

[Love Yourself]

There's still too many in X.

Hopefully they'll move and stay in Bluesky, unlike they did with Mastodon where it's was just a fad and cry for attention.

[Lewis]

I switched to Blueskye last week. X is a cesspool now.

[Vic Mornington]

Give it a month or so, like Mastodon and a whole load of others it will be a passing fad that will crash and burn when the people moving there realise 80% of their followers didnt follow them over.

[Keaton]

I've been on Bluesky for the last two years. Even before the latest surge my feed has been far more alive than X ever was. Those who think it will be dead in a year don't know what hypergrowth is.

[Argo Nurmi]

Never go near X after Musk took over. Been on Bluesky a week now and reading many SL related posts. FYI never motivated to join Masterdon.
Will take a little while to figure out who to "follow" and decide who the insighful people are and who are the humanists. Good to see Rosedale made it over the wall.