The social media site that many sought as an alternative to X fosters groupthink and pointless activism.
Bluesky is what Tumblr was
Over the past several months I have watched carefully as leftists have migrated over to Bluesky from X/twitter.
What is Bluesky? Everything to know about the X competitor.
Bluesky is the latest app users are flocking to in an effort to replace X. We answer all your questions about the social network.
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Bluesky and the ATmosphere give large organisations a unique opportunity: enjoy troll-free conversations and convene engaged communities on both Bluesky and your own site, all while respecting your users' privacy.
Guide to Bluesky: Getting Started and Best Practices
With over 20 million users and growing, Bluesky offers transparency, control, and a breath of fresh air in the social media world. Are you ready to escape the toxicity and censorship of other platforms? Sign up now! #Bluesky 🚀🌐
How Bluesky, Alternative to X and Facebook, Is Handling Explosive Growth
<blockquote><br /><strong><em>The fledgling social media site has been flooded with new users since the election. It hasn’t all been easy.</em></strong></b...
How Bluesky, Alternative to X and Facebook, Is Handling Explosive Growth (Published 2024)
The fledgling social media site has been flooded with new users since the election. It hasn’t all been easy.
How to use Bluesky: A beginner's guide to the most popular X alternative
Bluesky is one of several social networks offering an alternative to the platform formerly known as Twitter. Here's how to join and use it.
A Quick Guide to the Bluesky Social Media App | Aspire
What is Bluesky and why are X users flocking to the app?
How to View Bluesky Profiles & Posts Without an Account
Unlike X, you can browse Bluesky when logged outBluesky—the Twitter/X alternative social media site—is now publicly available for everyone who wants to sign up. Bluesky also still allows people to view the entire site while logged out....
Bluesky is not a social network or a product or a service, it is fundamentally a promise - a promise that you can decide — with others in your social geography — where you want to be in the digital world, and you don’t have to lose all of the bits that represent you in the process.
Aaron Ross Powell
Is Bluesky dying? Is it the community's fault? Should people here refrain from criticizing journalists who think J. K. Rowling might have a point? The thing is, it doesn't matter. Because the answer isn't to make Bluesky change. It's to take advantage of Bluesky's tech to build something else.
This is a really insightful thread that points out some of the fundamental issues with the Bluesky community vs Bluesky as a decentralized protocol. This thread is also why I think it's a really smart move for Bluesky to appeal to fandoms... (cont.)
B. Prendergast
One of the Atmosphere’s big bets is that the next 100m users will be won by making decentralised tech + data sovereignty more compelling. I’m less than convinced. We may be solving problems only builders care about, while overlooking problems that actually make ordinary people choose a network.
One thing is absolutely clear when it comes to X vs BlueSky: both platforms are on the decline. The ID community has either left social media entirely or moved on to other platforms I love our community here, but it seems like the future is uncertain. We need to rebuild our community!
Ken Koon Wong
860 posts 📉 a new low for #IDWeek2026 on social media! But the learning didn’t stop 🧠 Waning measles antibodies in infants, oral care to cut NV-HAP 🪥, MedGemma for TB 🫁, and more! Thank you all who have contributed! #idsky
One thing I hope people take away from the evidence that bluesky actually was a high-information community and X was actually a fascist make-believe bubble, is that spending your day as a large account resharing fascist propaganda from X on to bluesky is a social behavior akin to pissing in the pool
i think, end of the day, the real problem with Bluesky is that most of its users are here *because* they want to be in a bubble. and they can tell themselves that it’s just about not being around Nazis it supporting Musk, and that’s part of it, but also there’s a palpable desire to be ensconced.
