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Hundreds of millions of people writing and interacting with each other is exactly the moat Twitter had when BlueSky was started.


Sure but the new king of Twitter decided to open the gates and try to burn down his castle because the castle upkeep and providing for his retainers was too expensive.


I agree but a moat is not a “stone” - or not sure how to name this.

A series of bad decisions let a lot of people to not want to continue build their audience on twitter.




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