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What is Bluesky when it’s not the underdog?


Bluesky is having a moment — a moment that’s already stretched on for nearly three months. Over the summer, the social media app saw a wave of new signups

Yes, there have been triumphant posts about App Store rankings and the latest celebrity signups, but also self-deprecating discourse about the qualifications of being “Bluesky elder,” handwringing when the wrong kinds of users show up, and pleading/scolding reminders to “don’t engage, just block” when dealing with trolls. While I’ve spent more time there than on any other social media app in the past year, my follower count stalled at around 200 — a fact that I found weirdly freeing, though it didn’t motivated me to post more than once a month or so. She said Bluesky is looking to address this by adding more features to allow users to customize their experience, and by improving its automated content moderation tools.

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