From Twitter to X and from X to Bluesky. To answer the question of how it got here, it is inevitable to mention Elon Musk, owner and CEO of the old Twitter since its purchase was made official in 2022 at a price of 44 million dollars. Controversy after controversy and with name change included, the re-election of Donald Trump with Musk as his right-hand man and the game that the social network played during the campaign had consequences: millions of users migrate to Bluesky. And there are already 20 million…
X controversies aside, the truth is that Bluesky has managed to conquer millions of people with a simple element: nostalgia. The nostalgia of this Twitter from 2006 and the early 2010s, with a neat interface and giving space to all types of audiences and promoting community.
The creator of the old Twitter also created “the new Twitter”
You care more or less about who is behind a company, the truth is that in the case of Bluesky it is relevant, because it helps to understand what is the essence of this application. And that essence is none other than Twitter, a social network and company founded in 2006 by Jack Dorsey.
The then thirty-year-old experienced the greatest success with the first major microblogging application, Twitter. He remained in the position of top manager until the end of 2021, when the sale of the company to Elon Musk was already beginning to take shape (although it only became official after a few months).
Before his departure, in 2019, the idea for “Bluesky”, also known as “Bluesky Social”, emerged. The idea was to have a social network similar to Twitter, but decentralized and connected to the rest of the social networks. This ultimately resulted in a social network virtually identical to Twitter in terms of interface and functionality. This is how last year it began to be launched on iOS and Android in beta format.
Already growing, although without the big peak it is currently experiencing, Jack Dorsey decided to leave the company earlier this year. His top manager is now Jay Graber, a software engineer who contributed to the birth of the social network by being with Dorsey since its creation. Of course, without prior experience on Twitter or X other than as an ordinary user.
How to register on Bluesky
“Old timers of the place” will remember that a few years ago (barely a year and a half), access to Bluesky was limited. It worked by invitation of other users, although since this year it has been a social network open to all which you wish to access by registering your username and adding an associated email (and which will be invisible to others).
In that sense, it’s the same as Twitter/X, with each person having their own username, profile with a chronologically ordered timeline, etc. Of course, without abandoning the idea of a decentralized social network, users who register will do so with their own protocol, the AT Protocol. It’s something similar to Juggernautwhere we can join different servers which will identify themselves with their own domain after the username (the most common is bsky.social
Likewise, it must be said that Bluesky is cross-platform just like X. It can therefore be used via the web from computers and mobile browser, as well as with its official application for iOS and Android
Bluesky Social
Bluesky is THE NEW SOCIAL NETWORK for people who stay online and up to date. News, jokes, games, art, hobbies and everything you’re passionate about happens here.
The key to Bluesky lies well beyond the algorithm
The server has been using Bluesky extensively for about 10 days. And even if my opinion is not by far the most relevant, I trust what people around me and others that I have explored say: Bluesky is much calmer. There is less ideological tension even between opponents, healthier debates and in general a good atmosphere which had not been breathed in X for a long time.
However, and this is a purely personal opinion, I think that this good atmosphere is perhaps temporary. I’m not saying that it will scramble to the limits reached by X, much less if the algorithm is not modified to pursue it. However, I believe it is typical of the enthusiasts’ novelty and desire for experimentation that leads to this feeling.
Now beyond that positive waves, There are other objective elements for which Bluesky is gaining followers so quickly. The first and most obvious is its very thin learning curve
However, there is also exclusive additions that X doesn’t have and what sets Bluesky apart. See feeds, which look like X lists, but much more convenient because of the ease of sharing them and adding them to the timeline so we can access them by simply swiping right. Nowadays, it is very common to share starter pack of each theme and which are created by the users themselves according to their interests.
We also find the possibility of much more block and limit the content we see and who sees us. On the other hand, Bluesky allows you to move very finely with all that.
There are also some missing items.
Bluesky is not a perfect social network. In fact, he has some elements still in the experimental phase which generate bugs (like combining all our flows into the main flow). Likewise, some very characteristic elements of Twitter/X are also missing. Soon, any user of Elon Musk’s social network will miss this:
- Trending list to see the most discussed topics.
- Number of views of each post.
- Draft articles to publish later.
- Scheduling posts on a specific date and time.
- Download high-resolution video content longer than one minute.
- Ability to save posts to a file.
However, it should not be ignored that we are still in the early days of Bluesky and that there is it’s time for it to improve and add new features also in
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