Bluesky doesn't look to me to be a serious vehicle for our politics yet
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...it's mostly an echo chamber full of witty and wonderful quips from the likes of George Takei, and John Fugelsang; and interesting art and ponderous cartoons; but a dearth of actual news or political debate.
The most visible difference is the absence of pols, pundits, and reporters who need confronting with our disagreements, views, and other perspectives. I'm not sure how Bluesky users postings will find themselves actually meeting newsmakers and other public figures who aren't on the site, where they are or where the public will be influenced by it all.
It's really nice as an enlightening place where good people spend their internet time saying good things, but it doesn't appear to be impacting anything other than it's own users, and even that isn't making much of a noise.
Baby steps, I guess. But until it becomes a place where good people intersect with others with which they have some of the profound and consequential disagreements present in our society today, or develops a strong stream and debating of news and current political events, it's just going to be a nice place for me to visit and nothing more.
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...and developing.
Otoh I can read NYT, Forbes, Intercept, CNN and others I stopped looking at in years past. 
