I have to confess that I don’t spend any amount of time using the app known as “Bluesky,” which is the Left’s alternative to X. And there are a lot of reasons for that.
One of them is that, if I started posting on Bluesky, my account would be nuked within about five seconds. It’s an app that doesn’t tolerate any kind of dissent from Left-wing orthodoxy. It’s an echo chamber in the purest form. If you’re not there to commiserate with self-loathing trans activists, or to come up with clever new ways that a special counsel could remove Donald Trump from office, then there’s just not much to do. In other words, it’s what every social media platform on the internet used to be, before Elon Musk got involved.
That being said, you can make the case that Bluesky still serves a purpose. It offers the same value proposition that MSNBC provided on election night, which is this:…