Bluesky Gets a Midterms Bump, Ships Pronouns-in-Bios Feature

New York Times opinion writer Carlos Lozada said on Wednesday after the Democratic triumph in the midterms the previous night, “I think Democrats across the board got A.O.C.’s memo: Woke 1 was crazy. We’re focusing on economic populism.” That does indeed seem like one popular mainstream media narrative. It may not resonate, however, if you’ve been on Bluesky for the past two days.

Bluesky is a social media platform where the trappings of old-fashioned wokeness were never actually shunted away…