One thing I’d take issue with is the BlueSky example. Users did not flock there because they were being censored on X and needed something permission-less; they flocked there because they had LOST the power to censor others on X and wanted it back for themselves. The promise they see in BlueSky is not greater freedom, but that their faction has enough concentration of power to limit the freedom of others. So there’s no mystery as to why they didn’t turn to this platform. It’s everything they didn’t want.