There's been a large tech migration to BlueSky the past few days. Initially I was really excited as it was mostly high signal people, reminiscent of HN or early Twitter. However, I quickly encountered there's a large existing userbase that adopted it because of lefty / anti-Musk echo chamber views.<p>Matt Yglesias, a milquetoast centrist liberal Harris voter, founder of Vox, had his comments entirely brigaded by leftists doxing his old house, threatening him with hammers, and the highest liked comment is: "matty i hate to break it to you but the majority of this website would chase you around with a shovel" <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/manateejay.bsky.social/post/3k7x4lktla227" rel="nofollow">https://bsky.app/profile/manateejay.bsky.social/post/3k7x4lk...</a><p>You'd think if the milieu was intellectual, you'd have some reasonable debates about policy but it's all "gtfo" and threats.