The Latest Bluesky Meltdown is Pretty Entertaininghttps://hotair.com/john-s-2/2026/05/13/the-latest-bluesky-meltdown-is-pretty-entertaining-n3814920Whenever I see Bluesky gathering attention on X it's usually because they've ganged up against another conservative and done their best to drive them off the platform. But the really fun stuff happens when the woke liberals at Bluesky turn on other woke liberals at Bluesky and create a circular firing squad. And that's what has been happening there lately.
Yesterday, it dawned on one outspoken liberal, David Roberts, that maybe the whole concept of Bluesky wasn't working out so well for the left.
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It's hard to avoid the conclusion that Bluesky has been a net negative for US politics. They corralled everyone on the left into a little glass fishbowl where they shout at one another & everyone else ignores them. Meanwhile, all the pols & institutions stayed on X & are being dragged farther right.
10:39 AM · May 12, 2026
Can you guess what happened next? The Free Beacon describes the reaction.
Bluesky users were shocked that such a revered member of the annoying left-wing pundit class would criticize their place of worship. Doing what comes naturally, they responded by shouting at Roberts while everyone else ignored them. He was forced to write a 10-post follow-up explaining that his criticism should not be considered an endorsement of X, the far more popular, immigrant-owned Bluesky competitor, which he described as a "toxic" "Nazi" haven that is turning mainstream journalists into right-wing activists.
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Naturally, it wasn't long before someone brought race into it. David Roberts is white so of course that's a problem.
There are multiple X posts about this kerfuffle embedded in this article, very very amusing, but more than I want to format into this post. As DU has been demonstrating for over 25 years, echo chambers often do not attract the brightest and best of the echoed POV and often turn into Proggier- (or conservativier-) -Than-Thou urination contests, with purge sauce. DU has had a couple such purges, IIRC.
