Changing to draft until I can work out how to get the bluesky icon working.

Two reasons for swapping:

• Twitter/X doesn't play well with the linkchecker (I'm hoping BlueSky does)
• BlueSky provides a better experience for non-logged in users compared to Twitter/X

Although it's probably also worth considering:

• Bluesky is widely seen as having a strong Progressive bias, for which there is some evidence.
• It appears to be tiny in terms of active daily users compared to X - maybe 1.5M daily active users compared to X's maybe 245M daily active users (see links below).
• Bluesky activity appears to be in steady decline (links).

So perhaps, given these tradeoffs, it would be reasonable to either delete the X link, or add the Bluesky link to the X link for those who prefer Bluesky, for whatever reason.

I should say that I use neither personally, but just for background.

Links:

• Current Bluesky statistics
• One estimate of X statistics

Further analysis by Nate Silver : https://www.natesilver.net/p/what-is-blueskyism

and so the matplotlib account there may find more fertile ground for engagement

Engagement has kinda fallen off a cliff on both, and it's mostly the same people engaging us on both.

What we did on mpl-sphinx-theme is just get rid of the social media link & I have no problem with that here -or having both. Alternatively, I'd suggest the instagram here. Engagement there is basically non-existent but it's a visual medium and I can get better about checking the inbox.