In the past couple of weeks, there has been a small growing list of left-wing pundits and celebrities desperately virtue-signaling something or whatever by announcing their departure from X. I’d give you a list of some, but frankly, I don’t care. Who they are isn’t the point. It’s not the first time leftists attempted a mass exodus from the platform, and it won’t be the last.
And that’s really sad.
The first Twitter exodus came soon after Elon Musk bought the platform and stopped the blatant discrimination against conservative voices. They all flocked most to a platform called Mastodon. Have you heard of it? Even then, most of the people who were “leaving” Twitter kept their accounts and just started cross-posting because they knew that their new accounts weren’t going to have the same reach as their Twitter accounts.
Then Meta launched Threads, and we were treated to countless stories about how leftists were flocking to the new microblogging platform and that it posed an existential threat to Twitter. I told you then it wouldn’t, and it hasn’t. Threads is basically the Google+ of 2023. Does anyone still use it?
The new platform that leftists are flocking to is something called BlueSky. I got an invite for it once and squatted my username, but I’ve never actually “used” it.
Now here’s some irony.
A couple of years ago, Axios mocked the conservative exodus from Twitter and Facebook, accusing the right of building their own echo chambers. “Conservative media has been a powerhouse for a long time,” Axios argued, “but this phase of its expansion isn’t just about more or louder conservative voices — it’s about building an entire conservative ecosystem.”
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They missed the point completely. Conservatives weren’t ditching Facebook and Twitter in search of a conservative chamber. It’s because those platforms were actively suppressing and censoring conservative speech. They’d become liberal safe spaces where conservatives couldn’t speak freely, and those who tried to earn money through the platforms were demonetized. Even I was permanently banned from Twitter for not buying into radical left-wing gender theory. So we went to GETTR and Truth Social and found that we could speak freely without censorship. We had no choice.
Leftists who are ditching X for some other safe space platform aren’t doing it because they’re being pushed out; they’re doing it because they want an echo chamber. Ironically, it was the echo chamber problem that made GETTR and Truth Social less exciting to me and why, when I got amnesty from Musk, I went right back to Twitter. It's where my followers were.
Engaging with people of different viewpoints is what makes the platform interesting. Who wants to be on a platform where everyone agrees with you?
Apparently, leftists. As they flock to BlueSky or wherever else, they are creating a leftist ecosystem, and conservatives testing out the platform are finding out quickly that alternative viewpoints aren't welcome.
Got banned from BIuesky within the first 30 seconds for posting a biological fact pic.twitter.com/uxQzPVn2SR
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) November 17, 2024
Are you surprised? I'm not.
I thought it wasn't an echo chamber, chamber, chamber. #Bluesky pic.twitter.com/jDyFMv9an6
— LibsofBluesky (@Libsofbluesky) November 18, 2024
Conservatives sought out alternatives to Twitter and Facebook in the past because those platforms were openly hostile to them. Leftists are leaving X because they feel entitled to a platform where only viewpoints they agree with are allowed.
That tells you everything that is wrong with the political left today.
