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How to use Bluesky, the Twitter-like app that’s taking on Elon Musk’s X

Bluesky is continuing to blow up. The Twitter-like service and alternative to Elon Musk's X, has now surpassed 16 million users after seeing rapid growth

After creating your username and password and providing some basic information like your email and birthday, you can begin to interact with other Bluesky users and follow feeds of interest to find your community. Another area where Bluesky shines is how it approaches the so-called “cold start” problem — that is, it addresses the issue where new users on a service don’t know who to follow. To stay in touch with what’s news, users can also follow accounts or (unofficial) feeds focused on what’s trending, like Now Breezing, a bot that updates “on the :10s”, or Catch Up, which highlights the most popular posts from the last 24 hours.

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