Was Banishing Libs to the Bluesky Crystal a Mistake?!

In this episode, Simone and Malcolm Collins dive deep into the heated debate surrounding Blue Sky, a social media platform touted by its creators as a progressive haven. The conversation covers the consequences of isolating ideologically extreme communities, the risks of radicalization in echo chambers, and the comparison with X (formerly Twitter). With insights into user behaviors, platform demographics, and some humorous anecdotes, this discussion is both thought-provoking and entertaining. Tune in to understand the philosophical and practical implications of Blue Sky's existence and whether it’s beneficial or detrimental to public discourse.

Simone Collins: [00:00:00] Hello Simone. I'm excited to be

Malcolm Collins: with you here today. Today we are going to be discussing as people with a tech writer, new right perspective. Is blue sky a good thing or a bad thing? Because part of me feels a bit like. We ban there, there was this meme for a while that the left was going to be banished in crystals.

And that we were gonna trap them there under the Trump administration and was Blue Sky, it's like it came through, it's like in Superman, where the enemy is banished to a crystal and then shot into outer space where they can't interact with anyone else. And they're like, ah, no more harm.

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Malcolm Collins: But then on the other side you're like, well.

Is it really good to like isolate these communities where they can radicalize? Did we want this,

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

Malcolm Collins: that people forget how bad these communities used to be. And do not remember like how evil leftists actually are. And because I, we've heard, you know, you are on NPR and, and the guy was like, oh no, normal leftist would ever say that.

And you're like, literally. Every day somebody says I'm a Nazi. Like I know you say, no normal leftist would ever say this, but they do. So first I wanna get into what I mean by all of this. So blue sky, if you just look at the numbers and you're not being delusional. But we will go into the rest of the numbers 'cause they're actually pretty interesting.

Gets about 3.5 million active users a day and. X, on the other hand, gets 259 million active users a day, [00:02:00] which means that blue sky is getting 1.35% the users of X. Yeah. Or Twitter.

Simone Collins: It's so small. It's so small. I didn't realize before going into this just how small it was.

I had no idea.

Malcolm Collins: Basically nobody uses it. Yeah. Except for and, and, and I will note that enough of the people who used to participate in like cancellation mods mobs use it. Yeah. We have gone viral on blue sky, like, I don't know, last weekend or something. Mm-hmm. And we have stopped going viral on Twitter entirely.

We used to do this thing called media baiting, where we try to freak out progressives, you know, she dressed like a handmaid, right? And then they'd come do some prenatal list piece on us, and then we do something to freak 'em out. And then we go viral. And it was great for, you know, growing attention.

Growing interest. And yet it doesn't work anymore. Like literally cancellation stopped working in part because everyone involved in them went to Blue Sky. And now they're just yelling at each other.

Simone Collins: Although I, I will say [00:03:00] that it's not just like we went viral on it last weekend or last week. I.

There are posts about us from all sorts of time ranges, and there's also this concerted desire in the community to not talk about us along the lines of that one article saying, stop talking about Simone and Malcolm Collins. One person on Blue Sky, Lizzie O'Leary posted. I think you call it Skitting 'cause you're skying slash tweeting.

She skied, I am issuing an executive order banning writing about Malcolm and Simone Collins anymore on February 4th, 2025, which was quite a while ago. Actually, it didn't work because we've gone viral on blue sky since then. It really didn't. Yeah, and like people, people just like to go on there and make fun of us for.

No particular reason. On April 14th, max posted, whenever I see that one eugenics couple, I think they look like a pair of protractors that were brought to life by a magic wishing star. It's life. [00:04:00] By a magic wishing star. Yeah. Then what? I guess, I guess I could look like a ProTrac. I guess he means I'm skinny.

He must be in a world where like, I think like a, a protractor. I think they're just thinking like, can I think of a nerdy object and then humanize it with magic? I, I don't know though. I mean, progressive,

Malcolm Collins: you're doing the Yankee thing, so we've been thinking like, what can I dress as if she's gonna dress as like a pilgrim, like full Japanese Yankee as like the hair back, the whole greaser out.

I'm so

Simone Collins: for it. I'm ready.

Malcolm Collins: I'm, I'm still a little too timid to do the full podo look, but we'll see. We'll see. No,

Simone Collins: no. Give it time. You have the hair for it. You can get the volume. I do. So, you know, our podcast even got a shout out on Blue Sky. Someone, someone radical. Agile GA slash College Hill wrote Simone and Malcolm Collins.

The Tech Eugenics couple just dropped a strong contender for worst podcast of 2025, where they compare gender transition to lobotomies, which is. Just [00:05:00] fabulous. It's exactly like lobotomies and it'll be viewed in the future that way we now know. Well, she argues clearly the cult here because we talk about cults in the, in the podcast is all the trans people and not an insular group of weird venture capitalists who want to create the Uber mench.

They have this such clear people view of us. That's very. We're in the process. We're in the process. Okay. Oh, mean you're not denying are you? No. Don't deny it.

Malcolm Collins: If we remember what niche was, it's just a self-actualize individual. Like, yeah,

Simone Collins: no, and we want human flourishing. That is 100% what we're going

Malcolm Collins: for.

It's not genetic perfection just meant being self-actualize and making your own choices about what's right and wrong. That's what it meant to be an Uber b***h. Yeah. Not basing your morality off of a preexisting moral set. And I'm like. Are we trying to create the Uber wrench? Is that what all of our education stuff are?

We want Oh,

Simone Collins: we want a universe full of Uber. Uber. What, what are they mentions? Munchin [00:06:00] Mint High Mincha. But I, I, I I

Malcolm Collins: love that they're watching our podcast.

Simone Collins: Yeah. I mean, you know, fans of the pod. Shout out to all of you on Blue Sky. Thanks. Yes.

Malcolm Collins: Oh, oh. Do you have any other blue skies that you clipped?

These are fun to listen to.

Simone Collins: I mean, a, a lot of them just make fun of our appearance, like the, the protractors one. Another guy took a screenshot of our podcast with, with Curtis Jarvin, Jim Stewards and anti-fascist, he has to let us know skeets Curtis Jarvin and his pals Simone and Malcolm are all Peter Thiel ISTs, who believe their DNA is so amazing that they have a responsibility to share their magnificence with the world before we go extinct.

They apparently own no mirrors. Own no mirrors. Yeah. There's this really common. Thing amongst progressives who apparently aren't eugenicists that like where they love to imply ugly. We reall