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What is Bluesky and why are so many people suddenly leaving X for the platform?
The Guardian ^ | Sat 16 Nov 2024 | Tom Ambrose

Posted on 11/16/2024 9:30:30 AM PST by MinorityRepublican

The great X-odus is under way. More than 1 million new users have joined the social media platform Bluesky since the US election.

Many are seeking to escape Elon Musk’s X amid warnings from anti-hate speech campaign groups and the EU about misinformation and extremism on the platform.

But what exactly is Bluesky, why it is proving so popular, and who has already made the move?

What is Bluesky?

Bluesky is a social media platform where people can interact much as they do on X, posting, replying and messaging one another on a vertical user interface.

The recent influx of new users, largely from North America and the UK, has helped it reach more than 15 million users worldwide, up from 9 million in September, the company said.

How did it start out and who owns it?

Bluesky began as a project inside Twitter, after its chief executive, Jack Dorsey, announced in 2019 that the company would fund developers to create an “open and decentralised standard for social media”. Bluesky became an independent company in 2021 and is now primarily owned by the chief executive, Jay Graber.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 0chat; blewguys; bluesky; censorship; chat; fakenews; grauniad; insurrectionists; internet; jackdorsey; snowflakesafespace; socialmedia; tomambrose; treason
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1 posted on 11/16/2024 9:30:30 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican
So what is the verdict?

Is this a conservative site worth visiting?

2 posted on 11/16/2024 9:33:51 AM PST by A Cyrenian (MO's state motto: Let the welfare of the people be the supreme law.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Evil uncle Elon owns X and he supports PDJT.


3 posted on 11/16/2024 9:34:32 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within ? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: MinorityRepublican
"What is Bluesky?"

Another liberal echo chamber that will eat itself within months? Another failed experiment to create the 'X Killer'? The next source of victims in The Guardian's attempt to grift money and donations for 'reporting' the 'truth'?

I've got more...

4 posted on 11/16/2024 9:34:33 AM PST by Frank Drebin (And don't ever let me catch you guys in America!)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Two words: Air America.


5 posted on 11/16/2024 9:34:49 AM PST by Dahoser (The Harris campaign and media allies are not using JOY and FORWARD accidentally. Look them up.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

I went and looked. They are falsely advertising that they are “bipartisan”. There is nothing bipartisan about that platform at all. It is a shark feeding frenzy bolstering the insane left alternative reality.


6 posted on 11/16/2024 9:35:11 AM PST by Openurmind
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The Guardian evangelizing the soon to be Rat cesspool — imagine that.


7 posted on 11/16/2024 9:35:59 AM PST by Gene Eric
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To: MinorityRepublican

Twittercratic Underground


8 posted on 11/16/2024 9:36:04 AM PST by Disambiguator
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To: MinorityRepublican

Another Chinese social app.


9 posted on 11/16/2024 9:36:22 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: MinorityRepublican

It’s a platform for pearl clutchers.


10 posted on 11/16/2024 9:36:39 AM PST by grimalkin (Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man. -Fulton J. Sheen)
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To: Openurmind

IOW, DU on steroids.


11 posted on 11/16/2024 9:37:10 AM PST by 4Runner (Watch. Wallet. Gun! Left Foot! Right Foot! Thank God For Guns!....Denny Crane)
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What happened to poor Mastodon? I thought that was where all of the libtards went after Musk bought Twitter.

Now they're going to Bluesky? "Bluesky. We're just like Twitter except with only 0.01% of the users and we suspend accounts like the old Twitter you knew and loved did."

They'll be back.

12 posted on 11/16/2024 9:37:29 AM PST by Drew68 (Today I'm thoroughly enjoying eating crow salted with liberal tears. Best meal I've ever had!)
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To: A Cyrenian

It’s a place all the liberals that quit X go


13 posted on 11/16/2024 9:37:53 AM PST by Pollard
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To: A Cyrenian

All you need to know is that it was formed by somebody who used to work for Musk. (Can’t wait for the lawsuits about the theft of intellectual property from X.)

Expect censorship of ‘disinformation’, I believe it will be the new home of progressives/liberals/commies everywhere.


14 posted on 11/16/2024 9:37:54 AM PST by alancarp (George Orwell was an optimist.)
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To: MinorityRepublican
Libs after Elon bought X: "Let's all go to Threads!"

One month later they all came back to X.

Libs after Trump's reelection: "Let's all go to Bluesky!"


15 posted on 11/16/2024 9:38:36 AM PST by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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From what I’ve been able to learn so far, Blue Sky would be the opposite of Red Sky. A great place to go where you can hang out with the liberal whiners and screamin’ banshees who don’t want to share Thanksgiving dinner with you.


17 posted on 11/16/2024 9:39:42 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (It's great to hear the illegal aliens saying that Trump isn't their president. Easier to Deport!)
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To: Openurmind
I went and looked. They are falsely advertising that they are “bipartisan”. There is nothing bipartisan about that platform at all. It is a shark feeding frenzy bolstering the insane left alternative reality.

KamaLOL joined because she thought it was called "Blowguys"...

18 posted on 11/16/2024 9:40:27 AM PST by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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To: MinorityRepublican

“1 million new users”

X has 370 million users.


19 posted on 11/16/2024 9:41:16 AM PST by Rennes Templar (Come back, President Trump.)
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To: Openurmind
how, exactly, do the platform owners keep right-leaning people off?

if Freepers decided to join what would the owners of the platform do?
20 posted on 11/16/2024 9:41:32 AM PST by bankwalker (Repeal the 19th ...)
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