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Notes on this Bluesky Moment

Some late reflections on Bluesky user growth and the state of social networks.

A plain blue sky with a white cloud.

In the last couple of months, Bluesky, one of the many post-Twitter attempts to reshape the landscape of social networks, is living its best moment. Powered by Twitter’s blunders and by the continuous alienation provided by his power-hungry owner, Bluesky doubled its user base from around 10 millions users to the current 24 millions. It is time to annotate some of my thoughts.

Mastodon Revisited

A prehistoric graffiti representing flock of preistoric elephants, from the Cederberg Conservacy in South Africa.

A couple of years ago, I wrote critically about Mastodon. Now, with Twitter pluging into a disgusting shittification, I was exiled on Mastodon. Let’s see where and how my opinion on the Don changed in the last month.

The Problem with Mastodon and the Fediverse

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I tried to jump on the Mastodon train several times; however, I was never really convinced by it. To be honest, I was never really interested in any open-source clone of popular commercial social networks. And like me, 99% of the non-technical people I know. Why? A quick answer for a bloody hot August.