Blue Sky is Cutting Dems' Last Ties to Reality

Join us as we delve into Blue Sky, a platform developed by Twitter as a semi-competitor to itself. We discuss its development, user base, and the psychological impact of social media bubbles. From discussing memes that reflect the migration of leftists from Twitter to Blue Sky, to the implications of AI data scraping, this episode covers a comprehensive breakdown of Blue Sky's current standing and future potential. Watch as we dive into the numbers, growth stats, and debate the real impact of this new platform on the social media landscape. Plus, enjoy some light-hearted personal anecdotes and reflections on the broader social implications of technology and digital interaction.

Malcolm Collins: [00:00:00] Hello simone. I'm excited to be here with you today today. We are going to be talking about the platform blue sky Which is a competitor ish to Twitter.

It was actually started by Twitter. We'll get into this in a second. Yeah, it was started and owned by the Twitter Corporation, but as like a not a nonprofit, it's like some weird type of like for whatever company to blue sky right now.

First I want to get into the fact that I love that leftists are fleeing from Twitter. I have seen some great memes about this. I want to start with one right here that uniquely grabbed me. And it is the personification of x thing.

What's wrong, user? You gonna cry? You gonna s**t your pants? And I'm like, you know what? I don't more people need this in their lives right now, right? A little bit. A

little bit. Bring back bullying, people. And then the user is Sadly walking away and X is like, Hey, where are you [00:01:00] going? Get back here. You pussy, but X is absolutely right about this.

These people

are pussies. And then he's hugging. Oh, sweet little blue sky. They're there. It'll be okay. Says blue sky. Chan. But here's the thing. I love this because it presents almost a horror aesthetic to me. And this is such a thing in horror where you have the obviously evil and sheltering mother who is hiding somebody from their potential, their ability to interact with the world

Simone Collins: and feeding off of them.

The Munchausen's my proxy mother. Typically, that's the trope.

Malcolm Collins: You know, you could see this as the mom from Waterboy,

Speaker: You going to

Malcolm Collins: Twitter?

Speaker: Ow! Sorry, Mama, I wanted to tell

Speaker 2: you. You off gallivanting with your fancy

Simone Collins: the right!

Speaker 2: Friends at

Malcolm Collins: Twitter

Speaker 2: while I'm sitting here all day with nobody to keep me company except

Malcolm Collins: blue sky

Speaker 3: The chickens are [00:02:00] coming home to roost, Bobby Boucher. You reap the fruit of your selfish ways. You gonna lose all your fancy

Microphone (Wireless Microphone Rx)-1: Elections

Speaker 3: , and you're gonna fail your big exam, because

Malcolm Collins: Twitter?

Speaker 4: is The

Microphone (Wireless Microphone Rx): Uh, Nazi.

Speaker 4: ? Everything is

Microphone (Wireless Microphone Rx): Uh, Nazi.

Speaker 4: to you, Mama! Well, I like

Malcolm Collins: Twitter?

Speaker 4: And I like

Simone Collins: the right!

Speaker 4: And I'm gonna keep doing them both, because they make me feel good!

And by the way, mama,

Microphone (Wireless Microphone Rx)-2: Women don't have penises.

Speaker 4: And I like

Malcolm Collins: Trump ,

Speaker 4: and

Malcolm Collins: Trump

Speaker 4: Likes me back.

Malcolm Collins: Or the Rapunzel mom, right? Like, very Rapunzel, right?

Speaker 15: Mother knows best, it's a scary world out there. Something will go wrong, I swear. Ruffians, thugs, also large buds, men with pointy teeth,

mother will protect you. Darling, here's what I suggest.

Malcolm Collins: You know, oh, you, you just can't go out [00:03:00] there in the world full of nappies, don't you know?

Speaker 15: Mother knows best. Take it from your mumsy sloppy, underdressed, immature, clumsy. Colourful, naive, positive. Should we drop

Malcolm Collins: But on top of all these things. It, it, it's so like an embodiment of the Safe space song in South Park where these people are isolating themselves from reality.

Speaker 5: My safe space. People don't judge me and haters don't hate In my safe

safe space.

Speaker 6: You will see There's a very select crowd In your safe space

Speaker 5: People that support me Mixed in with More people that support me And say nice things My

Speaker 6: you cannot stop me from getting inside! I am cold and I am hard, and my name is Reality!

Speaker 5: Oh no, not [00:04:00] Reality! Somebody stop him!

Malcolm Collins: Where these people are isolating themselves from reality. Mm-Hmm. And I wanna talk about this because it has hugely deleterious psychological consequences Mm-Hmm. To the individuals who are doing this.

Hmm. This is not a mentally healthy thing to do. And Oh, let's go over some, some more memes before we go further here. So next year we have mastodon X and threads kicking at someone and laughing at them, and then they go to blue sky, which I think shows how quickly they mastodon, it seemed as blasting their own little safe servers.

It doesn't work. They'll never be satisfied with anything. That's the thing. They wanted to be able to lord their power over conservatives. They didn't want to just be lording their power over each other.

And they, they, when they go to Mastodon, well, who [00:05:00] can they pick on, but only other progressives. And so they go on other progressives and pick on them and they know that they're going to be picked on soon with it. They're all going to leave blue sky soon. I mean, this is a, I love a left aggressive. Look at all the numbers that are leaving and we'll get into the numbers.

And I'm like, well, the numbers really aren't that big and they're not bigger than the numbers that went to mastodon. So I don't know why you think it's going to work this time, but have fun. It turns out what you hate. is each other. You wanted an environment where you could bully someone who couldn't protect themselves.

Yeah. And now you're in an environment where you're the one being bullied.

Simone Collins: They just have themselves to, to eat. Yeah, it is.

Malcolm Collins: And I love, you know, when many people are talking and I, and I actually think that this is really true about this. It's a Rick and Morty meme here where Morty saying, what s**t is that?

And then Rick says, It's, it's, burp, it's a new competitor to X, it lets people post pictures and videos and write bits of text marketed as some kind of Twitter thing as an alternative to that [00:06:00] a*****e Elon Musk platform, and then Morty says, that's just Instagram with extra steps! And you know, that's effing true!

By the way, I don't think Elon's an a*****e, Elon's awesome, but that, that is true. And we've mentioned this on other things, more people will increasingly realize As Elon is increasingly ent