Yes.
3D got married; he hasn't posted much since.
Grind and Billy quit as mods and stopped posting.
I suspect Watermark became an adult and found something else to occupy himself with.
20 Years
- Thread starter Mott the Hoople
- Start date
Yes.
3D got married; he hasn't posted much since.
Grind and Billy quit as mods and stopped posting.
I suspect Watermark became an adult and found something else to occupy himself with.
That's not accurate. Where did you get that idea?
Isn't that the reason a lot of liberals went to Bluesky?
"Bluesky began in 2019 as a research initiative at Twitter, Inc., becoming an independent company in 2021. Development for the social app accelerated in 2022 after Elon Musk's acquisition of Twitter and subsequent severing of ties between the companies. Bluesky launched as an invitation-only service in February 2023 and opened registrations in February 2024.
...The social service attracted minority communities and subcultures, including black, artist, left-wing, transgender, sex worker, and furry communities, who benefited from the invitation system. These early communities are often credited for the platform's historically left-leaning culture and its implementation of robust community management and moderation features."
..."In the weeks following the 2024 United States presidential election on November 5, 2024, in which Donald Trump was re-elected for a second, non-consecutive term, with Musk being his largest individual donor, millions of X users from the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada joined Bluesky. By November 13, Bluesky had reached 15 million users, growing by around 1 million users per day and reaching the top of the Apple's App Store and Google's Play Store in the United States."
No, it's not. They left X because Elon Musk wouldn't ban people they disagreed with anymore.
But Bluesky's moderation teams were notorious for insta-banning people they disagreed with, and were then overwhelmed by the masses of lefties reporting each other for perceived ideological impurity.
Contemporary coverage and X discussions framed much of the overload as self-inflicted pile-ons within Bluesky’s heavily left-leaning user base.
Bluesky’s moderation team was overwhelmed by a massive surge in user reports during the post-2024 election growth spike—explicitly including cases of users reporting each other (or ideological opponents) for harassment, “misleading” content, or views that "violated the platform’s norms".
The official @safety .bsky.app account reported 42,000 moderation reports in a single 24-hour period (an all-time high) and ~3,000 reports per hour.
User reports jumped 17× to 6.48 million. This created Bluesky’s first-ever moderation backlog. The team quadrupled in size (from ~25 contracted moderators to roughly 100) and brought on external contractors.
Bluesky’s daily active users briefly rose to around 6 million before plunging to a low of 3.5 million by October 2025—a ~40% year-over-year drop.
Reports and data from 2025–2026 show a noticeable trend of users (especially journalists, media influencers, liberals, and creators) returning to X from Bluesky. Pew Research (May 2025) found most news influencers who tried Bluesky never fully left X; three-quarters of left-leaning ones and 87% of right-leaning ones stayed active on X (often more so). Many media figures who dramatically quit X for Bluesky returned by early 2025
Billionaire Mark Cuban (a Bluesky user) publicly stated in June 2025 that the platform's "lack of diversity of thought" had turned it into an echo chamber—ruder, more hateful, and forcing users (and posts) back to X.
A September 2025 New Yorker piece explicitly asked, "Why Are Liberals Returning to Elon Musk’s X?" noting many who fled to Bluesky were "creeping back" due to its "sectarian" culture, humor gap, and smaller reach—preferring X's bigger "megaphone" for attention and ideas.
In short, while not every Bluesky migrant returned (many use both or stuck around), enough did—driven by echo-chamber fatigue and X's superior reach—to make it a documented trend in 2025 coverage. X's dominance held steady.
I’m still here! Happy Annivrersary
You forgot christiefan and myself! Also, Tachi! He was with us on Netscape, too.Keep on truckin' chap!
Jarod, Desh (Evince), and me from the inaugural year of 2006 are still alive and kicking
Two got married, two moved on.
I actually came in 2009. Signalman also came with a bunch of us that year.
Oh, okay, yeah, Ken’s been around a long time, too!
You're right! There is still a bevy of old-timers here!
LOL. Do you and I have different definitions of "active"? j/k... There are still some here... 3D is still here. I cannot remember his moniker.
Yeah, Jarod was Twice Daily Alexfla... He's been around since p.com...Keep on truckin' chap!
Jarod, Desh (Evince), and me from the inaugural year of 2006 are still alive and kicking
Indeed. And Billy comes back on occasion... I'd say he is as active as Mott is...