YOU may have heard some buzz about a new social network called Bluesky, which is the latest app trying to seize the throne once occupied by Twitter. Here in the States, journalists are going wild for Bluesky – publications from TechCrunch to The New Yorker have covered its hip culture, analysing whether it is a sign of what’s to come in the world of social media. I have been on Bluesky for about a month now, and so far it feels like a fast-motion replay of everything that went wrong on Twitter. It has only taken months, rather than …
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Bluesky is just another Twitter clone and that isn't a good thing
The much hyped social media app Bluesky is meant to be doing things differently, but can its approach to content moderation really build a new social sphere, asks Annalee Newitz
7 June 2023