I am.... For what it's worth.

There are a few old FinTwit people who have migrated over. Mark Dow, IvanTheK. It works for me.

And Mastodon works too, once I had customised my feed. There are a lot of makers on it, and Cory Doctorow. I did have to filter out the "activists", but twitter has the same activist problem.

Believe me, you can live without Twitter.

I've never received a x.com link from a friend. Maybe we run in different circles with different people.

Most embeds I see on Discord are Bluesky. Bluesky seems to have taken over for social media links on sports subreddits. It saw a huge spike during the last game of the World Series.

https://old.reddit.com/domain/bsky.app/

Those might not matter to you, but neither did the early cohorts that drove growth on early Twitter matter to most people. Enough large mainstream cohorts set up a base there after the election spike that it's still growing toward the peak after dropping to a little less than half.

> Who is using Bluesky in the US?

A lot of writers and creatives who could not stomach X.com anymore (and were then likely burned by Mastodon's geekiness).

> Is it just my friends?

If your friends are in the right-wing sphere (e.g. Joe Rogan listeners, etc), then yeah, likely.

I consider myself left-wing, but bluesky is pretty casually toxic in a way that turns me off.

Other platforms are over-policed and Twitter is under-policed.

There was a sweet-spot, subjectively speaking, for Twitter mid-2022.

> Who is using Bluesky in the US?

Everyone I know. I routinely see only bluesky links. Yes, if X/Grok is promoting Nazi content, then yeah, I'll hear about it. But beyond that, nothing important that happens isn't showing up on Bluesky.

> Whenever something big happens I keep getting x.com links from friends. Is it just my friends?

I think it's safe to say that if people are sending links to a certain site, they are using that site. But assuming that everyone is using that same site is silly. It doesn't take any amount of effort to realize that other people are using other sites.

bluesky is mostly populated by fringe elements and that's putting it nicely