The Babylon Bee's Foray Into Bluesky Gets Started off on Hilariously Predictable Note

It never fails. After leftists lose big either at the ballot box, on Twitter/X, or via a court ruling, among the first things some of them announce in rather dramatic fashion is that they are headed for what they assume are greener pastures at another social media platform.

We've seen them venture off to Mastodon, Threads, and now the Next Big Thing: Bluesky, where media figures and woketivists alike have fled.

As my colleague Brandon Morse has documented, however, their migration to Bluesky has not gone very well so far, with snowflake users there reportedly sending "over 42,000 reports for harmful content in 24 hours, coming out to 3,000 reports an hour."

Further, as Brandon observed, users are "so intent on making sure their little bubbles stay intact that they're mass-blocking people without warning, and oftentimes without double-checking who they're blocking first."

So while it should come as no surprise to anyone, it's nevertheless hilarious to see how The Babylon Bee's adventure to Bluesky has gone so far.

The Bee's editor-in-chief, Kyle Mann, shared this screengrab on Twitter/X:

Our @TheBabylonBee debut on Blue Sky is going great 😂 pic.twitter.com/Hf6xRYUQVF
— Kyle Mann (@The_Kyle_Mann) November 20, 2024

Indeed, a check of the page for the Babylon Bee at Bluesky shows how they were censored by the moderators almost from the start.

Joel Berry, the managing editor of the Babylon Bee, has put up several posts since joining, which was also triggering for the leftists who were displeased that their safe haven had been disrupted. Here is one of them:

Thank you all for the warm welcome!
— Joel Berry (@joelwberry.bsky.social) November 19, 2024 at 10:12 AM

While most of the responses were not reprintable, the general sentiment was "go [expletive] yourself." I know. So tolerant and loving and inclusive.

I should point out for the record that though both the Babylon Bee and Berry's accounts are still active and viewable as of this writing, End Wokeness had no such luck:

Got banned from BIuesky within the first 30 seconds for posting a biological fact pic.twitter.com/uxQzPVn2SR
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) November 17, 2024

I created an account there over the weekend mainly for research purposes, and it truly is a cesspool of liberal grievance-mongers who were in desperate need of a social media safe space after the election and who think they've found one in Bluesky.

It's so pervasively left-wing there right down to the mega-lists of conservative randos to block that one of the main conclusions I drew is that if you're a journalist or another amongst our supposed "intellectual betters" and you're rushing to get over there where you feel like you can post "more freely," you're effectively announcing you do in fact have leftist leanings because there is really no other way to interpret it.

Relatedly, I've seen a lot of comparisons being made between leftist migrations to Dem-friendly platforms and conservatives starting accounts at places like Parler and Truth Social but those are not apples-to-apples comparisons, as Brandon explained:

But conservatives moved to those platforms because Twitter was censoring them, and they wanted free speech. These leftists are migrating to Bluesky because they're tired of all that free speech exposing them to ideas they don't like.

And after a few weeks of yada yadaing about Orange Man Bad at Bluesky, we know exactly what's going to happen: Most of them will come back to Twitter/X, unable to resist the urge to test the waters with Elon Musk and Twitter conservatives. Because at the end of the day, the fact remains that leftists just can't quit it.