And people on the 'left' felt like they needed their own echo chamber...Excuse me, their own social media platform where they could talk about. Left wing stuff I guess. But this is where Blue Sky kind of filled a niche...
I do feel this is isn't really fair. People moved to Mastodon, Post, Threads (Meta) and Bluesky for a couple of reasons... firstly a bunch of journalists got kicked off Twitter for reporting on how the elonsjet account was kicked off. The orgs like NPR got kicked off. Then the Trust and Safety team was fired so people were suddenly getting all sorts of threats and advertisers fled because their ads were being shown next to racist and sexist tweets. Then disinformation accounts like Alex Jones were allowed back while journalists like Ken Klipp were kicked off. Finally, anyone not paying for blue checkmarks find it so hard to get any traction at all. It's pay to play now.
People I know were devastated to leave Twitter, especially after a full decade of tweeting daily, but the amount of hate they were receiving every day just made it impossible to stay.
And what was it like for people on the right before ELon took over? Works both ways. The pandering to right or left wing though is insane. As human beings we should be able to discuss things in an open platform without censoring and removing content. Why we all believe in this platform but will it ever gain traction?
I don't think people on the right were being censored at all on Twitter. Things like death threats and racial slurs and misinformation were censored, but conservatives have always been extremely welcome on Twitter and have had absolutely massive followings. Some of the biggest accounts on Twitter have been conservative accounts.
In regards to platforms... nothing draws a crowd like a crowd. What content is on Hive that would draw a big crowd?
I'm glad that Hive overall has gotten away from the mentality that short form content is of no value. The purists of long form content fought with creators for years, called it low quality and that hurt adoption.
That's a good thing that slowly it's becoming more welcoming to short form content. Video is the key. Once 3speak gets shorts back on Threads, that will help. Anything with short form video will draw a crowd. But unless people feel like their friends are here...Not sure what will work to capture the masses.