The election of Donald Trump had an interesting effect on the world, from foreign entities already settling their beefs to avoid trouble to a massive shift in the media's power.
One thing it did was popularize a social media website called "Bluesky," a Twitter knock-off that the left fled to in droves soon after Trump's win was finalized. Since then, the website has become both a hilarious look at the mind of the left... and a disturbing one. I won't jump into this in this article, but there appears to be a bad pro-pedophilia problem over there... but that's the left for you.
The migration to Bluesky and the goings-on there are self-destructive for anyone paying attention. It's very heavily moderated, and the site admits it's overwhelmed with moderation requests, or to put it more bluntly, leftists wanting someone shut up because they don't like an opinion they gave.
This is creating something of an echo chamber, which is a bad move. As my colleague Sister Toldjah covered on Wednesday, Jonathan Turley noted that not listening to anyone but themselves is a large part of what lost the left the election in the first place:
Ironically, one lesson from this election is the danger of both the press and pundits in becoming increasingly out of touch with most of the country. The shock expressed by many is due to a lack of exposure to opposing views — not the need for further ideological isolation.
But one has to understand that this ideological isolation Turley referred to isn't a bug... it's a feature.
You can't look at Bluesky in the same way one looks at other social media sites, especially X. On X, there is a diverse range of opinions, going from moderate to extreme and everything in between. You will be exposed to the other side, and you will have the ability to engage with the opposition, either to troll them or to try to have a legitimate debate with them.
That is not Bluesky's function.
The closest comparison I can make for Bluesky is Colonial Williamsburg.
For people who've never heard of this place, Colonial Williamsburg is a living museum where you can go and see what life was like in Virginia in the 18th century. There are people dressed in period-accurate clothing, going about their day in ways folks did in that era, giving you the impression that you stepped back in time and are experiencing things you read about in history books first hand.
Bluesky is kind of like that. It's a nostalgia trip for leftists for a time that was actually not that long ago, when the left had absolute control over social media, media, information gateways, and could create and distribute narratives at will. It was a time when oppositional thinking could be controlled through bans or shadowbans, and discussions and topics could be de-ranked or unlisted in order for them to stay isolated from the population at large.
The leftists who fled to Bluesky are living in their own Colonial Williamsburg, where their ideology is dominant to the point of controlling everyone else's speech. In that realm, a right-leaning thought can be censored with a report, and that report will be addressed. The person speaking out of line is punished. At Bluesky, the left's supremacy is unchallenged... just like in the old days.
It's the ideological homogeneity they longed for since the purchase of Twitter by Elon Musk.
I don't think I need to go too far into how dangerous this is for the left. They have a penchant for creating feedback loops that serve their own opinions back to them, confirming their bias, and growing their prejudices until they're radicalized. Moreover, it creates a static ecosystem, and those don't evolve. It just continues to stagnate as no ideological diversity is introduced or allowed.
This is going to result in a complete detachment from reality, and the left will wind up back in the same place it was before.
But this won't affect the entirety of the left, mind you. Bluesky isn't attractive to all of them, and as time goes on, I can see the left still engaging with the right becoming the true left due to its ability to debate and argue its points, whereas the left that went to Bluesky will, like many university students, become incapable of hearing opposing viewpoints.
Nostalgia is fun, but it's ultimately stagnating. The left isn't doing itself any favors at Bluesky, but then again, I'm not going to interrupt my enemy while they're making a mistake.
