Posted on 05/01/2023 2:07:16 PM PDT by nickcarraway
May 1, 2023 Share Jack Dorsey and Twitter Alternative Blue Sky (Photo by Marco BELLO / AFP) As influencers and celebrities fret over chaos at Twitter, a new platform called Bluesky is being hyped as a promising alternative.
Costa Rica Videos Bluesky was created by Twitter’s co-founder Jack Dorsey and is now the talk of Silicon Valley, leaving those in the know scrambling to secure an invite to join the app that is still at the testing phase.
The platform looks and feels like Twitter as its backers want users from the Elon Musk-owned site to feel at home, though posts on the app are referred to as “skeets”, not tweets.
The momentum gained for Bluesky last week as left-wing Congresswomen Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and fashion model Chrissy Teigen, who have millions of followers on Twitter, joined the platform.
Bluesky is right now invite only, following a similar path to success taken by many other platforms that built buzz and fear of missing out by limiting initial users.
According to Forbes magazine, citing data from Data.ai, the Bluesky app has been downloaded 360,000 times and is currently ahead of some popular platforms such as LinkedIn, Bing or Zoom in the Apple App Store ranking.
“Bluesky might be the Twitter-like we’ve been waiting for,” wrote the influential tech news site The Verge last week.
A key difference from Twitter is that Bluesky will run on a decentralized network which gives users more control over how their data is stored and how content is moderated.
This is in the spirit of Mastodon, which has also been ballyhooed as a potential threat to Twitter, but whose complicated signing up procedures has so far stopped it from gaining traction.
The hype over Bluesky came as Dorsey used the platform to say that he no longer thought that Musk was the right leader for Twitter, the site he co-created in 2006.
“It all went south,” Dorsey said of Musk’s Twitter ownership in a series of Bluesky posts, responding to user questions, as reported by CNBC.
Dorsey said Musk should have “walked away” from the $44 billion deal and that the board of Twitter was mistaken to hold the Tesla tycoon to the acquisition when Musk tried to undo it.
Musk’s tumultuous takeover went through in October with Dorsey’s backing and many users have shopped around for a new forum to communicate, with nothing yet emerging as an alternative.
He really had no choice3 after Musk shut down his kiddie porn and kiddie prostitution ring on twitter. He needs those little boys.
He probably has an angel invested with deep pockets, ok, make that deep state demonic investor with deep pockets.
ironic choice of names
So will he be under the control of the US Government like the old Twitter was?
Does it come with a micro dose of Heroin?
” As influencers and celebrities fret over chaos at Twitter”
My heart is broken.
Just like twitter but with more censorship. Who would find that attractive other than libtards?
So that’s why he has been mean-mouthing Musk all day.
I’d like to ask what ‘chaos’ is there? For the average person at Twitter you can log on and use it as always. And its basically just the same as before except for slightly altered moderation policy for controversial accounts. Theres not any service disruption or anything like that. The main front facing controversy is who gets blue checkmarks. So really there isn’t any relevant ‘chaos’ unless you consider musk taking over to be ‘chaos’
“ironic choice of names”
“Echochamber” would have been much more appropriate.
With prominent leftists signing up, it sounds like it will be just like the old Twit. Pass.
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Just like twitter but with more censorship. Who would find that attractive other than libtards?”
Even better, it will be almost exclusively Libtards who join, guaranteeing a vast echo chamber devoted to un_personing.
I agree. I have Twitter. I couldn’t care less about blue check marks…
Radical leftists currently find Twitter toxic now that people can contradict and mock them without being shadow banned and cancelled.
Regular Twitter users are doing just fine.
Radical leftists want the ability to influence regular people. Being isolated in an echo chamber won’t satisfy them.
Let the liberals currently in Twitter go over to Blue Sky.
They have no sense of humor and can’t meme. They can bore each other to death in their little echo chamber
And just when you think an evil empire has been destroyed...BOOM!
Just call it, “Bluski”, for short...
Competition is good...something tells me, tho, that Dorsey hates it
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