The social media app Bluesky wasn’t born out of the storm clouds surrounding Elon Musk‘s Twitter-turned-X, but its growth in popularity is a direct response to a perceived shift to the right for users who prefer to “Tweet.”
Bluesky is a microblogging platform that acts, looks, and operates like X. It began as a research program inside Twitter’s original operations in 2019 before becoming fully established on its own in 2021. A pet project of original Twitter co-creator Jack Dorsey, the Bluesky of today is the Twitter of yesterday — clean, simple, stripped down, demonetized, and not owned by President Donald Trump‘s trusted adviser.
That last attribute makes Bluesky attractive to progressive social media users who believe X lurched to the right after Musk purchased it and
Join the conversation!
Please share your thoughts about this article below. We value your opinions, and would love to see you add to the discussion!