No, it’s because they’d rather talk to intelligent humans. X is populated by idiots and bots these days

This reads like a flippant comment, but I believe it is actually entirely accurate. It could be stated less harshly, but it's true.

So basically the usual BlueSky hugbox refrain.

Since covid much of the biological academic people on twitter were getting violent threats from anti-vaxxers and anyone angry about science contradicting the proclamations of their deal leader Trump.

Why would anyone with half a brain stay to experience that?