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How A Niche Online World Made Its Outrage Look National
This article is part of Upstream, The Daily Wire’s new home for culture and lifestyle. Real human insight and human stories — from our featured writers to you.***Earlier this month, Bluesky CEO Jay Graber announced she was stepping down to make way for a “seasoned operator focused on scaling and execution.” For years, parts of the press and the online intelligentsia treated Bluesky as the future of public discourse. Outside those circles, most people barely noticed it existed. That gap between seeming central and being socially marginal is the real legacy of Bluesky.More than a story about one platform’s limits, it is a window into a larger dynamic of online life, where tightly connected minorities can make their conversations look like the voice of the public.Bluesky has around 42 million total users, a fraction of the hundreds of millions claimed by X and Threads. But more importantly, as Jesse Singal pointed out to Blocked and Reported cohost Katie Herzog, “There’s a little more than a million people who like a post at least once a day.” Herzog responded, “That’s so small,” to...
