Which isn’t to say his science reporting isn’t just highbrow transphobia written in a tone that a moderate liberal audience without subject matter expertise might see as innocuous, or that it isn’t contributing to the campaign against him across the platform.

Atm we can still see this influence in tastemaking. Brianna Wu is the most blocked account on Bluesky, largely because the trans community has a lot of reason to dislike her.

I’ll be curious to see if and when the top blocks change, if we really are in the vertical part of the s-curve

Between Musk and the way the invite system worked out, it was profoundly easy to get inundated in offers to make an account if you were trans and overly online a bit over a year ago.

A very interesting confluence of factors that pushed the culture massively from what the devs envisioned.

The Rolling Stone article is probably some of the highest profile coverage of this—though it’s hardly alone—it’s also very perfunctory.

It’s fairly easy to find accounts that really deemphasize the bipoc and queer communities that were here, and the way they pushed the platform on e.g., moderation.

See! I had a typo in that post, a fake person wouldn't make typos! That's a distinctly human behavior. Extremely pseudo-authentic. Much parasocial!

Oh, this is a good one! I don't suppose I could get added?