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Bluesky's science takeover: 70% of Nature poll respondents use platform

Roughly 6,000 readers answered our poll, with many declaring that Bluesky was nicer, kinder and less antagonistic to science than X.

Seventy per cent of Nature readers who responded to an online poll are using the social-media platform Bluesky, which works a lot like X (formerly Twitter) and whose popularity has soared in recent months, in particular since the November US election. Other positive terms that respondents used to contrast the platform with X included more pleasant, more supportive, friendlier, kinder, nicer, more collegial, uplifting, more peaceful and safer. Other marks in Bluesky’s favour noted by survey respondents include the perception that there are fewer “Nazis” on the platform than on X, and less racism; that it is not owned or deemed to be influenced by Musk; and that it does not host advertisements.

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