{"id":16681,"date":"2024-11-23T16:37:59","date_gmt":"2024-11-23T15:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/23\/ive-joined-bluesky-and-it-feels-like-a-breath-of-fresh-air-in-some-ways-john-naughton\/"},"modified":"2024-11-23T16:37:59","modified_gmt":"2024-11-23T15:37:59","slug":"ive-joined-bluesky-and-it-feels-like-a-breath-of-fresh-air-in-some-ways-john-naughton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/23\/ive-joined-bluesky-and-it-feels-like-a-breath-of-fresh-air-in-some-ways-john-naughton\/","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019ve joined Bluesky and it feels like a breath of fresh air \u2013 in some ways\u2026 | John Naughton"},"content":{"rendered":"

The flourishing new platform may be like Twitter once was. The problem is the limited algorithmic scope of all social media<\/p>\n

As I write, there\u2019s a window on my laptop<\/a> screen that is providing a live view of a stampede. It\u2019s logging the numbers of people joining the social network Bluesky<\/a>. At the moment, the number of registered users is 20.5 million. By the time you read this there will be more than 30 million of them, judging by the rate that people are currently joining.<\/p>\n

The proximate cause of it is the role that Elon Musk, owner of X (n\u00e9e Twitter), played in the election of Donald Trump, when a significant proportion of the platform\u2019s 200 million-plus users realised that they\u2019d been had \u2013 that they had, in effect, been useful idiots for Musk on his path to the centre of political power.<\/p>\n

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\nThe flourishing new platform may be like Twitter once was. The problem is the limited algorithmic scope of all social media
\nAs I write, there\u2019s a window on my laptop screen that is providing a live view of a stampede. It\u2019s logging the numbers of people joining the social network Bluesky. At the moment, the number of registered users is 20.5 million. By the time you read this there will be more than 30 million of them, judging by the rate that people are currently joining.
\nThe proximate cause of it is the role that Elon Musk, owner of X (n\u00e9e Twitter), played in the election of Donald Trump, when a significant proportion of the platform\u2019s 200 million-plus users realised that they\u2019d been had \u2013 that they had, in effect, been useful idiots for Musk on his path to the centre of political power. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The flourishing new platform may be like Twitter once was. The problem is the limited algorithmic scope of all social media As I write, there\u2019s a window on my laptop screen that is providing a live view of a stampede. It\u2019s logging the numbers of people joining the social network Bluesky. At the moment, the …<\/p>\n

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