After the 2024 election, many users left Elon Musk’s X, and the main beneficiary became the Bluesky social network. first time, Blue Sky reported The number of users has exceeded 20 million.
On paper, this would seem like a great development for X’s right wing. The liberals they hate are retreating from the digital world, and their leader has the ear of President-elect Donald Trump. One would think that everything is fine.
rather conservative whining About the escape and people like Joel Berry (not very interesting) Babylon Bee, a conservative satire site; fuming They say their attempts to join Blue Sky have been met with opposition. Why is this happening?
Over the past decade, conservatism has adopted a culture best described as “owning freedom.” The most important motive behind this is to publicly demonstrate some kind of superiority over liberals, as a way (what they think) to show the superiority of conservatism. Some people think that if conservative ideas are so good that they can win any argument – cutting taxes for the rich, deregulating big business, supporting discrimination – then what’s not to like? Probably.
For the right, conservative ideas and memes are so good, so powerful, so right that liberals are forever being “triggered” and having “meltdowns.” , it’s much easier to point and laugh. The way conservatives try to demonstrate this is through cruelty, as author Adam Serwer puts it: beautifully expressed In The Atlantic, he said, “Cruelty matters.”
Right-wing media outlets like FOX News Standard content It’s an expanded roundup of supposedly liberal shows like “The View” to document liberal anger at conservatism.
President Trump is the perfect embodiment of this worldview. Trump has never been able to make a convincing argument for policies that would save his life, but he is good at unleashing a barrage of insults and ignorance that angers people who really care.
This is why Trump was having so much fun on Twitter before he took office. banned for inciting the January 6 riot, and that a kind of action Since taking over the company, Musk has deleted President Trump’s ban.
Conservatives on social networks, led by Musk and his rabid troll army of supporters, live to “get their freedom.”
Bluesky said he values community over harassment and has introduced tools and features that, while flawed, are more in line with those available at Twitter before Musk took office. So if “Lib” moved to another location like Blue Sky, there would be no Liberals to own it.
Unless liberals catch up and demonstrate their superiority, conservatives will have to tolerate their allies. This is a problem that other conservative social media networks have faced in the past, including Parler and Trump’s own Truthsocial. The parlor is more convenient For this reason, it is used not as a traditional social media network, but as a tool for organizing terrorist attacks.
It turns out these people need the liberals they hate so much to give meaning to their (seemingly) sad online lives.
The move to Bluesky may be temporary, or it may be a long-term trend, but people are now using one of the most valuable weapons available online – Note –And keep it away from Mr. Musk’s profession.trump horror show. Many decided that it would not be worth giving power to a bigot like Musk, regardless of the global reach and reach of X.
Not having the freedom to own it after action has become such a big part of life is creating a vacuum on the right. In this way, the library is currently they.
