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Social networks in 2024: bless this mess
There is no next Twitter. But that’s probably a good thing.
Two years ago, after Elon Musk acquired Twitter and announced his intention to ruin it forever, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg saw an opportunity to build a text-first social network. But Bluesky is tiny, which is a problem: it doesn’t yet have the user base to be truly culturally central, and its team is so small it might have trouble keeping up with new features and content moderation. Long term, I’m still bullish on the fediverse, the idea that all these social apps could be united on a single infrastructure that lets you move freely between platforms.
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