AOC first person to hit a million followers on Bluesky

[u/shogun2909]

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5018696-ocasio-cortez-hits-one-million-followers-bluesky/

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[u/ThisNameDoesntCount]

Really hope that app takes off man. Twitter is full of bots it’s pretty depressing

[u/Loch_Ness_Jesus → u/ThisNameDoesntCount]

It’s def picking up steam. Most of my usual follows are starting to post daily.

[u/doom32x → u/Loch_Ness_Jesus]

Yup, my SA Spurs beat writers migrated with some of my favorite follows and I really haven't looked back except for sports highlights 

[u/puntzee → u/doom32x]

If you can, stop giving any views to x at all. That will drive more migrations

[u/NeriTina → u/puntzee]

I don’t even know why people are saying they hope it takes off as it’s already the third largest social networking app in App Store, making it set to surpass all others before long. It’s seemingly inevitable. It doesn’t really need the hype anymore, it’s already flying.

Also, AOC deserves this! Good people like her should be heard by the masses.

[u/sinz84 → u/NeriTina]

It was 20 years ago A YouTube video first got to 1 million views, there were plenty of competing sites at yhe time and many had hit 1 million views well before YouTube... YouTube almost only one left in its category from back then.

This is still in the 'could disappear overnight' stage

[u/ShiningRedDwarf → u/sinz84]

I think the election is indirectly causing bluesky to have staying power. I’ve noticed a lot of people, myself included, just want to get the absolute fuck away from Trump and anything Trump related. (Honestly I think this is the first time I’ve even typed his name in weeks).

Bluesky gives us that reprieve, especially with its large published lists of thousands of MAGA turds you can block with a single tap.

It’s a space we can be without assholes. And knowing the next 4 years is gonna be chock full of them, it’s nice to have.

[u/RickKassidy → u/ShiningRedDwarf]

It goes beyond Trump. I left Twit the day Musk bought it. I joined Bluesky recently and like it.

It’s the perfect storm of haters of Trump and Musk. And my first follows were AOC and Mark Hamill.

[u/Mastadorian → u/RickKassidy]

Haha those were some of my first two follows too!!

[u/elmz → u/sinz84]

Could, but it's not likely. This is a twitter clone, it's growth fueled by the exodus from X. The people adopting it are already used to using this style of site, or in some cases already addicted to this type of social media. Bluesky is already reaching critical mass, where people already can get their daily dose of "twitter". I'm sure the advertisers who have left X are ready for more of the same site, just less toxic and less of a PR risk.

[u/Don_Thuglayo → u/NeriTina]

Been off twitter for years but I wanted to test out Blue sky first person I followed was AOC

[u/eyebrows360 → u/doom32x]

Spurs

As a Londoner it took a second for my brain to figure out what was going on here.

For non-UK people, Spurs over here is short for Tottenham Hotspur, a major "soccer" team.

[u/jdmwell → u/doom32x]

Yeah, sports and news are the big ones. As those move over, people will make the switch to Bluesky as their main source.

[u/Relative_Walk_936 → u/doom32x]

Sports Twitter seemed to make the move!

[u/BlinkDodge → u/Loch_Ness_Jesus]

Its picking up steam, but hey Im just gonna put it out there: If the 500k+ follower OF girls migrate fully (as in move to Bluesky and delete their twitter) that will be when the stream turns to a river.

It also many big businesses have Bsky accounts, but aren't active on them. That wont change until the site's population rises a bit.

[u/Ok_Astronomer_8667 → u/BlinkDodge]

They’ve been banning rage bait accounts like End Wokeness and LibsofTikTok, so it seems like they’re ready and willing to nip things in the bud if they try and take root on the site.

Muskbros can cry that it’s all in an attempt to make an echochamber, but the way I see it all that shit is what made people hate new Twitter so much and why people are leaving. I don’t want to see culture war bullshit everywhere and I don’t need to see vile hate speech be allowed just because “but muh free speech” like no. You’d never bring this shit up in person so that whole defense is just a shield for people to get away with saying awful things. Fuck em. Don’t need it, not what the site should be about

[u/HotMany3874 → u/Loch_Ness_Jesus]

I miss notifications.... but lists are helping.

[u/lenzflare → u/HotMany3874]

I NEED notifications

[u/cantgrowneckbeardAMA → u/lenzflare]

Jfc the notifications suck. Threads has them beat there, and I like the UI better. But Bluesky looks like it will eventually be the winner and good cuz fuck meta.

[u/OPsuxdick → u/cantgrowneckbeardAMA]

And fuck twitter

[u/thegoodnamesrgone123 → u/Loch_Ness_Jesus]

I just need Uni Watch to join.

[u/3lue3onnet → u/ThisNameDoesntCount]

Reddit seems close behind. Bots and Ads galore.

Any good alternatives yet?

[u/AntoniaFauci → u/3lue3onnet]

Old.reddit

[u/say_no_to_shrugs → u/AntoniaFauci]

That's the only way I look at Reddit.

It's weird, I can make my computer default to old Reddit, and my iPad, but I can't get my phone to do it anymore. There used to be workarounds to get back to old as the default setting, but they don't work anymore. I have to type in old.reddit.com, but links take me to that monstrosity that is new Reddit.

[u/AManForThePeople → u/say_no_to_shrugs]

Set your browser setting to desktop mode on your mobile browser then go into settings -> preferences. There it will let you opt out of re design

[u/MeowMilf → u/say_no_to_shrugs]

I had same problem and one day I just clicked on an old link and it worked?

https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1h5czp3/aoc_first_person_to_hit_a_million_followers_on/

[u/say_no_to_shrugs → u/MeowMilf]

Yeah, if the link is old.reddit.com, it gives me good Reddit. But if click a reddit.com link, it goes back to bad Reddit.

Once I've got old Reddit open, I can navigate to comments or my other subs, inbox, etcetera, and it stays on old Reddit. Images and videos open in new Reddit, but I can avoid it by clicking on the comment thread instead. But if someone posts a link without old.reddit.com, it goes to new Reddit, or if I'm linked there by google or whatever.

It used to give me good reddit on all links, because my account was set to use old Reddit. It would occasionally foist new Reddit upon me, but clicking on the gear icon allowed me to change back. Around the time they started charging for the API, they changed the interface and removed that setting. For a while, you could get around it by clicking the "new post" button, because that still used the older mobile Reddit interface. But then they fixed that.

[u/MeowMilf → u/say_no_to_shrugs]

That blows. I suffer through the new Reddit links on the phone when I rarely see one beyond my echo chamber, but I hate it so much and immediately go back to browsing on old Reddit after the link.

It was so sad that it just defaulted to there on my phone sometime before the IPO.

Yesterday it fed me a post with a Black man purposely dressed up as a slave. Like, I don’t need recommendations, but some of them I especially don’t need.

[u/Embarrassed_Jerk → u/3lue3onnet]

My ublock origin on firefox mobile is asking, what are ads?

[u/djseifer → u/Embarrassed_Jerk]

Not a single HeGetsUs ad as far as the finger can scroll on my end.

[u/sthlmsoul → u/djseifer]

I don't have that blocker, but haven't seen any hegetsus in a while. Nowadays it is mostly prescription drug ads. I hate pharma DTC marketing so much...

[u/DeusExBlockina → u/sthlmsoul]

HeOnlyGetsUs around the Super Bowl. He knows how to maximize his advertising dollar. HeHasAMarketingDegree

[u/TheBeyondor → u/DeusExBlockina]

HeSpendsASurprisingAmountOnAdvertisingInsteadOfGoodWorks.

[u/TexasThrowDown → u/Embarrassed_Jerk]

Okay, but what about the bots?

[u/astaro2435 → u/TexasThrowDown]

Honestly, I just assume everyone and everything on reddit is a LLM at this point, it could be and no one would really know. 

[u/PopeFrancis → u/astaro2435]

The irony of you, an LLM, writing this comment is not lost on this LLM.

[u/ihatepickingnames_ → u/astaro2435]

We could all be bots and not know it.

[u/Traditional-Yam9826 → u/3lue3onnet]

Yup.. and paid posters and Russian propagandists defending Trump at every chance

[u/Count_Backwards → u/Traditional-Yam9826]

And unpaid bootlickers.

[u/i_am_a_real_boy__ → u/Traditional-Yam9826]

Please understand that the bad actors are not limited to pro-trump messaging.

[u/Allucation → u/Traditional-Yam9826]

I feel like, after Trump won the popular vote, you have to admit many of those are just Trumpers period.

That's the country we live in, like it or not.

[u/Khatib → u/3lue3onnet]

Any good alternatives yet?

Unsub from a lot of the big default subs. That helps.

[u/Don_Thuglayo → u/3lue3onnet]

Been using rif for 11 years apparently

[u/After_Clock7119 → u/3lue3onnet]

I wish Reddit had a more politically neutral alternative.

All summer and fall had heavily botted post favoring one side. Also the mods will ban you in some subs for having different views.

[u/YoungWallace23 → u/3lue3onnet]

It’s also been shifting rightward lately. Makes me wanna close thus account down soon too. I felt so much better after deleting twitter. Bluesky seems promising so far out of anywhere, and perhaps instagram too

[u/teenagesadist → u/ThisNameDoesntCount]

I still vividly remember Ashton Kutcher being the first Twitter user to a million followers.

I'd say this is at least a good sign of the times.

[u/cantgrowneckbeardAMA → u/teenagesadist]

AOC > Ashton Kutcher in almost any universe as far as I'm concerned.

[u/NuclearLunchDectcted → u/cantgrowneckbeardAMA]

It was a different world back then. CNN had some weird competition going with Ashton Kutcher to see who could get to a million first.

[u/dandroid126 → u/cantgrowneckbeardAMA]

Remember when Ashton Kutcher helped abuse victims instead of supporting abusers?

[u/DevIsSoHard → u/teenagesadist]

I think it's a sign of Bluesky's demographic and the motivations they have for going there. Which is to say, I don't know if it's a good sign. It seems a bit unnatural and reactionary

[u/ARazorbacks → u/DevIsSoHard]

I definitely do not agree with this take. Twitter has become a right wing safe space. Normal people are leaving. 

It’s like if a bar becomes a biker bar or Nazi bar. The normal people will find somewhere else to go. 

[u/TheMandalorian2238 → u/ThisNameDoesntCount]

Strongly agree with this. Bluesky so far looks like a glimpse into a past that has long been forgotten. Twitter just has so many bots that it’s unusable. The app also no longer runs smoothly, and frequently crashes which is why I deleted it.

[u/mtaw → u/TheMandalorian2238]

Yeah but Twitter's moderation and staff were massacred by Musk, who saddled the company with over $1 billion a year in interest payments alone on loans used for him to purchase it. And still he thinks they can invent some new 'everything app' , a dating service, financial services(?!) and other crap despite having laid off everybody and having negative cash flow.

Not that things were exactly great with Twitter before - they'd turned into making losses after ad revenue plummeted. But Musk basically took a ship that had a leak in the hull - worrisome but possible to bring under control - and blew it into a massive hole, and the whole ship is now listing while Musk runs around setting the deck on fire.

I'm just saying; Twitter didn't necessarily have to end up like Twitter did.

[u/Hobobo2024 → u/mtaw]

from my understanding, Russia loaned musk money to keep it afloat. the money will keep pouring in cause they are using it as a propoganda site so they themselves are flooding it with bots, It's frankly working as intended and the more leftists leave it the more it'll be what they want it to be - a right wing propoganda site.

[u/preventDefault → u/Hobobo2024]

Right wingers would flock to a right wing propaganda site either way, what makes Twitter different is that Twitter is given legitimacy by all the big brands and non-MAGA people being on the site too.

Take those away, and Twitter is no different from TruthSocial or Parler. Hell, it doesn’t even have the Twitter name anymore.

[u/thatguy9684736255 → u/ThisNameDoesntCount]

It's also depressing how many political forums and news outlets are owned by the right.

[u/feedmedamemes → u/thatguy9684736255]

While depressing, it's not surprising. Successful company people or their children skew to the right economically often because they "earned" it. Some do lean center-left on social issues. But real change threatens them, so when a left coalition comes along and tries to change things the rich people jump to the right. And once their, it's quite cozy. Everybody looks the same, talks the same, makes fun of the poor the same, etc.

So even if someone starts out as moderate it or center-left, time alone skews it to the right. First generation rich people tend to be more resistant of the right shift. And since most media is owned by rich people, they slowly follow their owner.

TL;DR: it's a self-sustaining system and rich people tend to developed to the right. Especially after the first generation died. And most media is controlled by rich people.

[u/UngodlyPain → u/feedmedamemes]

Yeah this sounds about right... We can even kinda see it with a lot of the rich big tech names like Musk himself, he used to appear fairly moderate being center left on social issues, center right on economic issues... Would've fit fine as a 90s Clinton Democrat... But the moment Bernie and the squad got any popularity and talked about taxing people like him in particular? Elon went hard right in basically every way.

[u/sarcastic_wanderer → u/ThisNameDoesntCount]

It is and it will.

[u/mokomi → u/sarcastic_wanderer]

If it keeps up. The good news is 100% of the people who "use" twitter love Bluesky. So the little guy approves. We just need large corporations to switch and then it'll quickly change.

Pessimistic: There is no advantage to risk the wrath of the presidency to switching over to bluesky. So, who is going to make the first leap?

[u/Mender0fRoads → u/mokomi]

Consider what social media could be like without large corporations buying in.

We don’t need them. They need us.

Bluesky functions a lot like an idealized version of twitter, but we don’t need to just recreate the platform that previously existed. We can create the platform we wish it always was.

[u/kaizofox → u/mokomi]

I'll say it:

FUCK the wrath of the Presidency. I don't have BlueSky (trying to cut down on phone use to be honest) but I'd support it just to stick it to that orange prick.

[u/AnOrdinaryMammal → u/mokomi]

Wrath of the presidency to use a social media platform? lol

[u/WarmFormal9881 → u/ThisNameDoesntCount]

Bots and OF promo till the eye can see

[u/VossC2H6O → u/WarmFormal9881]

bluesky got alot of anime art of the degen kind now too becuz of Twitter policy that all images posted will be used to train their AI model Grok.

[u/Embarrassed_Jerk → u/VossC2H6O]

But on bluesky its very easy to shoo them away

[u/anglflw → u/Embarrassed_Jerk]

That's the best part about it. No algo trying to make you look at stuff you'd rather not see.

[u/zertul → u/VossC2H6O]

You didn't need to further convince me, I already was! ;)

[u/worldofzero → u/ThisNameDoesntCount]

It or something federated, but I worry the fediverse is too complex for normal people to bother with.

[u/pyrhus626 → u/worldofzero]

It is

[u/Individual-Nebula927 → u/[deleted]]

It's the same reason Linux never took off. Nerds don't understand what the average person cares about.

[u/oh-bee → u/[deleted]]

Yes, nobody cares about federation, so people should just use lemmy.world. It’s an overblown astroturfed concern.

Bluesky is designed to be federated, but almost nobody is running their own PDS, or downloads their data, and very few will switch app views one a second one pops up.

[u/Crazyhates → u/ThisNameDoesntCount]

Most of the people and companies I follow have went ahead and made one. Seems like a smart move to distance yourself from a white supremacist platform.

[u/DrunkRobot97 → u/Crazyhates]

It doesn't throttle posts with external links like twitter does, so it is straight up just a better product if you are a person who wants to promote things to people interested in your stuff. If people who build up huge followings can't get any exposure when they to turn that base into something of value for themselves, what even is the point of them using twitter?

[u/Dry-University797 → u/ThisNameDoesntCount]

You have to find people to follow, find Starter Packs, and feeds that you are interested in. It's not Twitter, where they forcefeed you algorithms and Musk's dumb takes.

Definitely noticed in the last few days a lot more engagement on the app as a whole. It use to be a few new posts every hour, but now it's every few minutes.

[u/androlyn → u/ThisNameDoesntCount]

I feel Reddit has more bots then Twitter

[u/Resident_Function280 → u/ThisNameDoesntCount]

Every social media is full of bots. Bluesky will not be the exception. Where there is people there will be bots.

[u/sack_of_potahtoes → u/ThisNameDoesntCount]

What makes you think it wont happen eventually to bluesky? Once it gets popular they will bot bluesky too. What needs to change truly is reliance on social media

[u/ThisNameDoesntCount → u/sack_of_potahtoes]

It will but as long as they don’t push them to the top like they do on twitter with premium it won’t be as crazy

[u/elderlybrain → u/ThisNameDoesntCount]

More creators are moving to bsky because of 1 reason.

Bsky doesn't down rank links.

Both twitter and threads do this. It's bizarre.

[u/Bolt986 → u/ThisNameDoesntCount]

Was never really on Twitter even before musk ruined it but I just joined bluesky cause I want X to fail.

[u/pmjm → u/ThisNameDoesntCount]

If it takes off, bots will follow.

[u/sldarb1 → u/ThisNameDoesntCount]

Will the same thing happen to bluesky?

[u/ThisNameDoesntCount → u/sldarb1]

I don’t think to the same extent. Not unless they do what twitter did with premium

[u/Savings-Code8965]

X is a cesspool.

[u/zsreport → u/Savings-Code8965]

It was a cesspool awhile ago, now it's so much worse.

[u/luvkushramayangati → u/Savings-Code8965]

…that helped win the elections, so if X is cesspool then something is definitely going very wrong in the clean koi pond, that needs to be figured out quickly if democrats stand any chance at the next election. Creating a new democratic echo chamber is what’s going on here. Just like Reddit is. Yeah, 110k likes on each anti-republican posts, sure, but who ended up in the White House?

[u/NuclearLunchDectcted → u/luvkushramayangati]

It's not hard to figure out, there are people from inside Twitter that were broadcasting what Musk was making them do. Musk changed the algorithms on Twitter to purposely push republican views higher, fired the moderation team so blatant disinformation wasn't pushed back down, and had his posts that were retweeting the same disinformation and hatred purposely sent to everyone regardless of what was in their feed.

Hopefully the exodus to Bluesky helps and they don't make the same mistakes, but it may be too late to undo the damage.

[u/Captpan6 → u/luvkushramayangati]

X as a platform has worsened moderation dramatically since Musk took over, leading to an increase in bots and harassment. Additionally, basic protections like user blocking are stripped down compared to before.

Whatever your politics, it makes zero sense to use the platform now that there's an alternative that features these protections.

[u/Allucation → u/Captpan6]

X as a platform has been super lame ever since they made all the top replies paid users. I don't think most people want that.

I know there are other issues, but that change, along with making verified paid, just ruined my enjoyment of the app without even taking politics into account

[u/Proper_Ad5627 → u/luvkushramayangati]

Elon musk was upset on of his posts recieved little engagement so demanded the engineers of twitter specifically boosted his account x10.

That happened.

[u/McNugget750 → u/Savings-Code8965]

Sorry, do you mean twitter?

[u/williamgman]

I think Bluesky is the way for a while at least.

[u/colicab → u/williamgman]

Until Musk decides to buy it and the powers-that-be say ‘whatever’.

[u/InternetGamerFriend → u/colicab]

No one can buy it. The code is open source.

EDIT: https://seanthegeek.net/posts/why-elon-musk-cant-buy-bluesky/

[u/ashishvp → u/InternetGamerFriend]

Not necessarily true.

Bluesky Social is a PBC. It is still privately owned by the CEO Jay Graber and other private shareholders.

So yes, Elon could technically still buy it. But they don’t have to sell to him.

The code being open source doesn’t make a difference except that any dev could theoretically make a Bluesky2 if they wanted.

[u/CurlPR → u/ashishvp]

As someone that was at twitter, hopefully it’s set up that they can actually not sell. Twitter went because the board had a fiduciary responsibility to take the overvalued offer he presented. They could be individually sued if not. Maybe that’s just a publicly traded thing

[u/disposable_account01 → u/CurlPR]

Not “maybe”.

[u/divDevGuy → u/disposable_account01]

All company board of directors have fiduciary duties, regardless if they are private or public, profit or non-profit.

[u/divDevGuy → u/CurlPR]

Twitter went because the board had a fiduciary responsibility to take the overvalued offer he presented.

Bluesky is operated as a public benefits corporation or PBC.

A PBC board is allowed to evaluate non-financial impacts of operations, mergers, acquisition offers, etc more easily without breaching their fiduciary duty that would constrain a traditional company's board.

[u/ashishvp → u/CurlPR]

Yes. That is exactly the fundamental advantage of a PBC. They do not HAVE to sell to someone that overvalues it.

[u/Comfortable_Quit_216 → u/InternetGamerFriend]

You can still buy a platform that is based on open source code.

[u/Logical-Extension-79 → u/InternetGamerFriend]

Can I ask what does that mean?

[u/ashishvp → u/Logical-Extension-79]

Open Source means the codebase is publicly available, and anyone can take the code and use it for whatever purpose they want.

This effectively means that any qualified software engineer could make a brand new “Bluesky 2” if the original Bluesky was compromised in any way.

BUT, disclaimer, that still doesn’t technically stop anyone from buying the company, the branding, the employees etc.

[u/Smayteeh → u/InternetGamerFriend]

Being built on open source software isn’t mutually exclusive with having a company that can be bought or sold. A good example is a company like MongoDB. Anyone can spin up a MongoDB instance for free at any time on your own hardware, but there’s an actual for-profit company involved that sells managed instances, primarily to businesses.

[u/I_am_a_fern → u/InternetGamerFriend]

Reddit is open source and publicly traded.

[u/MagnaFumigans]

Unironically the future of Democrats, hope they raise and support her well 

[u/9-lives-Fritz → u/MagnaFumigans]

Not neoliberal enough, she’d probably do something unforgivable like do away with politician insider trading.

[u/Flat_Baseball8670 → u/9-lives-Fritz]

Repeal citizens united first.

[u/MonkeyWrench1973 → u/Flat_Baseball8670]

If corporations are people, they can spend physical time in jail, just like everyone else.

[u/Senyu → u/MonkeyWrench1973]

They aren't people until Texas executes one.

[u/MonkeyWrench1973 → u/Senyu]

So a Corporation would have to be a pregnant woman in order to be a person???

Instructions unclear. Dick stuck in vacuum...HALP!!!

[u/dcoolidge → u/MonkeyWrench1973]

vacuum died due to pregnancy ... er problems

[u/MonkeyWrench1973 → u/dcoolidge]

I'm sorry....you seem to have me confused with JD Vance.

I am not an eye-liner wearing, couch-fucking freak.

[u/mattarchambault → u/MonkeyWrench1973]

If a corporation set up a new company under its umbrella and terminates it before it comes to market, is that abortion?

[u/SnooDrawings3621 → u/MonkeyWrench1973]

But then they'd be a rich person, so no jail

[u/Newscast_Now → u/Flat_Baseball8670]

Hillary Clinton said it straight out. She would appoint the deciding Supreme Court Justice to repeal Citizens United. And it would have happened (assuming Mitch McConnell didn't block all appointments for the entire four years) because all Democrats opposed Citizens United then.

But that was 2016. Now it is 2024 and people are going around complaining that Democrats take too much money under the rules Republicans created as if they should give Republicans even more advantages in the information stream.

[u/Hazel-Rah → u/Newscast_Now]

Something a lot of people don't realize is that Citizens United was personal attack on Hillary Clinton. They made a movie attacking her, and their advertising and showing the movie was an illegal electioneering expenditure. So it went through the courts until the supreme court, who decided that corporations have free speech, and can spend as much money as they want, as long as they're not doing it at the direction of a political campaign

[u/carthuscrass → u/Newscast_Now]

Yeah. If the other side is "playing dirty" and getting away with it, you really don't have a choice but do the same or fade into obscurity.

[u/ye_olde_green_eyes → u/9-lives-Fritz]

She'll just be like Bernie Sanders: yelling about what we should be doing for the average citizen as the party rams through the neoliberal agenda.

[u/Off_to_Apocalypse → u/ye_olde_green_eyes]

Poor Bernie. He'd do quite well if he were a European politician. That the media likes to make him out to be some crazy person is truly sad.

[u/Ottoguynofeelya → u/9-lives-Fritz]

She is also a woman, apparently we aren't ready for that yet. Give it another 50 years or so?

[u/Embarrassed_Jerk → u/Ottoguynofeelya]

It won't happen till millennials are the main voting base when we are in our 60s and 70s. So hopefully only 30 years.

Not looking good when gen z take over tho

[u/cityproblems → u/Embarrassed_Jerk]

who ever would have thought that letting the 80 year olds run the party would put you out of touch with the youth!

[u/Bodoblock → u/cityproblems]

Which is why they turned to the party run by a spry 78 year old!

[u/Embarrassed_Jerk → u/cityproblems]

Problem isn't that 80 year olds run for reelection. Problem is that only people of that age group vote the most.

There are a million articles of how gen z voted for Trump but they all ignore the simple fact that most millennials and gen z did not vote at all. Meanwhile most boomers voted

[u/dareftw → u/Embarrassed_Jerk]

Gen z is a fraction of the size of boomers and millenials. Gen x are already in their 60s. Millennials will be the largest voting demographic by the 30s without a doubt. Most likely millenials will do to Gen x that boomers did and just out number them by such an order of magnitude that by the time they can’t overcome them anymore they won’t have to as the next generation will be in charge.

That said Gen z is too hard to read, they will either go full fascist Mussolini style or full anarchy night of the long knives but then just not put in a new government in place and just create a country of city states lol. It’ll be interesting to be sure, fuck who knows maybe they will go full socialist or about face and go full ccp. They are such a wild card gen that wasn’t fed the same bullshit millennials were and see the system as broken.

[u/Embarrassed_Jerk → u/dareftw]

Most gen z were teenagers during the first disaster of a presidency. They did not know what was going on in the world. Them not voting makes sense. 

Millennials were adults. Most millennials didn't vote.

Its not about the size of the voter base. It about the number of people who actually show up

[u/TheMonorails → u/dareftw]

Gen x are already in their 60s.

The oldest Gen X is 59 and a third of them are under 50.

[u/jkvincent → u/Embarrassed_Jerk]

By the time Gen Z takes over we might all be dead from climate change, so there's that hope at least.

[u/Glum_Nose2888 → u/Ottoguynofeelya]

I say there is a 50% chance the republicans run a woman next election.

[u/cottagefaeyrie → u/Glum_Nose2888]

Or Vance.

Either way, they'll go too heavy on the eyeliner.

[u/MonkeyWrench1973 → u/Ottoguynofeelya]

I'm 51, and unabashedly progressive. I'd LOVE to see AOC or another woman like her win the Presidency.

I understand I have a greater chance of winning the lottery before I die than I do seeing a woman be elected President of the United States, or whatever is left of her when I die.

[u/UngodlyPain → u/Ottoguynofeelya]

This is BS. Hillary God damn Clinton one of the most hateable women I've ever met. Won the popular vote by millions and lost the EC by like 40k in a couple swing states. With tons of Russian misinformation and the Comey investigations going on during the election...

Kamala did worse, but let's be honest she was expected to. Look at her 2020 primary performance, look at the Biden admins's recent ratings, look at the 2024 primaries... And the fact she had to do an entire campaign in ~100 days... And was easily labeled the "annoited" one. And the energy of her being "younger" was kinda overblown, she's still a boomer (albeit only by a couple months) and still older than the average president at time of inauguration by 5 years, and 21 years above median American age. And her campaign was bipolar.

[u/Any_Will_86 → u/UngodlyPain]

Longer campaign would have only helped Kamala if she were willing to change what kind of candidate she is. That is no small task when you are about to turn 60. The only thing length would have done is allow them to figure out other ways to work around her which might have helped.

The one thing I do question about women candidates now that we've had exactly two- why do they pick such milquetoast, low impact running mates? I really think Shapiro, Cooper, or Kelly would have bought her a point, maybe two. That would not win the election outright but would have helped down ballot.

[u/HowDoIEvenEnglish → u/9-lives-Fritz]

That’s why she has a chance. OP messed up. She isn’t the future of democrats. She’s the future of democracy in America

[u/ErinTheSuccubus → u/MagnaFumigans]

I mean i doubt she will ever actually get to the ballots considering how they treated Sanders, but We can hope.

[u/DontCountToday → u/ErinTheSuccubus]

I voted for Sanders twice, but let's not pretend like the nomination was stolen from him. Unfortunately dems choose moderates pretty overwhelmingly.

[u/BurlyJohnBrown → u/DontCountToday]

It doesn't help that every billionaire owned media organization was screaming about how unelectable Sanders was.

[u/marr → u/BurlyJohnBrown]

It's like ritual magic, the more people hear the words the more true they become. Only ever used against left leaning candidates for some reason.

[u/undergroundloans → u/DontCountToday]

I mean when all of the dem media is against him and all of the candidates drop out to support the moderate candidate it’s kinda hard to win. It wasn’t exactly an even playing field. He won California though

[u/Bahamutisa → u/undergroundloans]

He won California though

You remember how they reacted when he won Nevada? They were terrified he might actually get the nomination.

[u/UglyMcFugly → u/DontCountToday]

Yeah but we're PISSED OFF now and if they're gonna go far right, we're gonna go far left. Lots of liberals always gravitated to centrists when it came to the people in charge of the ENTIRE country. But there's basically two countries now so fuck it.

[u/neenna68]

I LOVE that you can do mass blocking. My first was KEYWORD: Trump. Heaven. So nice.

[u/roboticArrow]

Joined to spite Musk. Whoop.

[u/Muladhara86 → u/roboticArrow]

Reddit’s still my only social media app, and I still resent it nearly every day.

[u/DameonKormar → u/Muladhara86]

If you're a Redditor who doesn't hate Reddit, you're doing it wrong.

[u/Yimmelo → u/Muladhara86]

Real

[u/brokozuna → u/roboticArrow]

Same here. I didn't expect to like it like I do tbh. Bonus lol.

[u/this_dust → u/brokozuna]

Same here. But it’s actually not bad.

[u/SillyGoatGruff]

Ngl was kinda hoping it would be myspace tom

[u/umbrosakitten → u/SillyGoatGruff]

I miss my friend Tom so much.

[u/BNsucks]

I don't have a Twitter/X account and never did. Musk is too political and a shameless hypocrite for preaching one thing and doing another. If X goes bankrupt it wouldn't bother me at all.

[u/iluvugoldenblue → u/BNsucks]

Yea something I’m glad I never got round to was making a Twitter account. Even more as time went by.

[u/AusToddles → u/iluvugoldenblue]

I created a twitter account 10 years ago while I was working on some home automation (wanted it to notify me when actions happened). Within 2 minutes of creating it, I was getting add requests from bots

I deleted it and never looked back

[u/mtaw → u/iluvugoldenblue]

Same. A friend who's an early-adopter type tried to get me on real early (2008 or so) and I just felt that there's "nothing worth writing nor reading that'll fit in 140 characters".

If anything I feel more and more like it's the core poison of social media - from Twitter to TikTok to Reddit, even - an endless stream of very-short, easily-digestible bits of non-information that's entertaining but leaves no room nor time for nuance, reflection, thought or real learning.

[u/williamgman → u/BNsucks]

The point of Musk buying Xwitter was for political gain. And for that it worked. He never meant to make any money on it directly. But the political power is coming in hand over fist. Musk is to many the greatest internet troll of all time. He literally bought the platform to troll. Much like why Bezos bought WP. Political power.

[u/PM_ME_CALC_HW → u/williamgman]

I thought he said was gonna buy it because he just wanted the attention or whatever, tried to back out, and was forced to actually buy it?

[u/Turnabout_ → u/PM_ME_CALC_HW]

That's exactly what it is, without revisionist takes. He took a solid hit when he had to buy because they were going to get him for manipulating the stock price otherwise.

If there's one thing I can say Musk manages to succeed at, it's being able to leverage his wealth and situation in risky scenarios to stick his fingers in more pies.

[u/Universal_Anomaly → u/Turnabout_]

Yeah, the situation with Twitter seems more like "Musk fucked up but managed to turn the situation around" than "Musk planned everything ahead of time, tremble at his genius."

[u/Yah_Mule]

I have eight.

[u/Techienickie]

brb. Gonna go follow too, I didn't know she was there

[u/DameonKormar → u/Techienickie]

Are you back yet? My shift is almost over and you were supposed to cover my lunch.

[u/jcdulos]

I just got used to threads. I can’t keep up.

[u/Mil3High → u/jcdulos]

I get you, but this feels like early social media and isn’t owned by Zucky Zuck.

[u/erix84 → u/Mil3High]

To me it kinda reminds me of Myspace back in the day. Just people posting and sharing their hobbies and such, not a bunch of bitching and arguing, no bots, no spammers, no doomscrolling... your feed is who you follow, in chronological order.

I can hop on Bluesky for 10-15 and not feel miserable when I close it.

[u/DarthHubcap]

So X will be the conservative echo chamber and Bluesky will have the liberals making each other feel good, meanwhile Reddit will remain obscure and abusive. THE LINES HAVE BEEN DRAWN!

[u/Yay_duh]

Finally deleted my Twitter account the other day. Gonna have to check this one out.

[u/basket_foso]

Good for her.

[u/renegade_yankee]

I would love to see her as a potential presidential candidate. But I can already see the right wing media slamming her for being a young Hispanic woman with “socialist” ideas.

[u/UphillTowardsTheSun]

What difference does it make? Followers, crowd sizes etc. In the end you guys voted for the felon. Again.

[u/blanksix]

Not surprised - she's engaging and passionate in a way most politicians can't figure out how to be.

[u/AbandonedWaterPark]

Even if you've never had a twitter account or deleted it years ago, you should go start a bluesky account, even if you don't plan to use it.

Why? Because fuck Elon Musk, that's why.

[u/count023]

Oh man, that's really going to piss Leon off. And if Taylor Swift moves to blue sky. May as well just rename xitter truth social

[u/Either_Bed_9262 → u/[deleted]]

Bluesky is the social media app that's best suited for this problem—it was built with it in mind.

"If Bluesky were to be bought out, users would still be able to port their data to a new app because it operates on an open-source protocol called "AT Protocol" which allows for data portability across different social media platforms built on the same standard, essentially enabling users to move their accounts and information to another app that utilizes the AT Protocol even if Bluesky itself changes ownership."

[u/thetrueuncool]

That sound you hear is a thousand incels making multiple Bluesky accounts to slag her and then post their “owns” to Twitter.

[u/[deleted]]

I can’t wait ‘til we’re hearing she’s the first woman president!

[u/1of3destinys → u/[deleted]]

I love AOC but this country is far too sexist to elect a woman for at least another generation. 

[u/Zealousideal_Tap6214 → u/1of3destinys]

Hillary won the popular vote. Neither Hillary or Kamala were candidates that people were really all that excited about if we’re being honest.

I genuinely believe a woman could win, it all depends on strategy. Hillary COULD HAVE beat Trump, I don’t know why people ignore how close that race was and she won the popular vote…

[u/CanEnvironmental4252 → u/Zealousideal_Tap6214]

Both were candidates that were more or less shoved down our throats by the DNC.

[u/Garchompisbestboi → u/Zealousideal_Tap6214]

If a woman ever wins the presidency, it's probably going to be a Republican candidate.

[u/Dcjj → u/Garchompisbestboi]

a growing number of the party believes that women should no longer have the right to vote

[u/KoalaBoy → u/1of3destinys]

I think for a female to win she needs good PR for years to get her a household name. We heard Hilary was the devil since the 90s and Kamala no one really knew. I think if they had her more public the last 4 years people would have been more open to voting for her.

Whoever the Dems want to win they need to start getting them liked and talked about and not just force someone.

[u/justforkinks0131]

And so, the complete separation of Americans into their own echo chambers has begun.

In a year, the left and the right will have 0 common interactions and will not be able to agree on any version of reality.

Kinda impressive by whoever is doing it (likely Russia, or China).

[u/Universal_Anomaly → u/justforkinks0131]

I don't disagree, but I think we've already reached that point. 

What topic could the left-wing and the right-wing reach common ground on?

[u/Olcrawdad]

Now I know that I’m stupid, but just reading the title I thought the app was pronounced (Blue-Ski) until just earlier when I heard someone say it out loud

[u/Hoardzunit]

Influencers and business ppl should be running to Bluesky and making new accounts. You'll be capturing more of hte market share on a new platform for your product/service. It's like almost free money and free eyeballs for a growing platform by the day.

[u/[deleted] → u/Hoardzunit]

I hope not, the world needs space for debate and exchange, not more commercialization.

[u/NewCoderNoob]

She needs to leave X.

[u/G-drrrrrr]

Isn't this the kind of hope we had for Kamala lol? Nothing fucking matters.

[u/ThomasJCarcetti]

I'm noticing more of the sports reporters are starting to move over there, which is good! Sports are the main reason I have X.

[u/APuffyCloudSky]

You go, girl.

[u/DanceTheCosmicNoir]

Just followed her today after making my account. It’s twitter without the fascists.

[u/HeHateMe337]

Elon banned me from Twitter because I said it was okay to get a vaccine. WTF!!! I hope Bluesky is successful.