Bluesky Reminds Me of When Social Media Wasn’t Terrible

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Bluesky Reminds Me of When Social Media Wasn’t Terrible
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It’s refreshing to share inane thoughts in an extremely low-stakes atmosphere, with no Elon Musk in sight.

that failed to catch on. I figured Bluesky, which was developed by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey as a decentralized, open-source version of the platform, would follow a similar arc.

I’m not alone in my decision to step away from social — the majority of my friends have cut back on tweeting or left the platform entirely and post less frequently on Instagram. This is partly owed to getting older and realizing that the drawbacks of compulsively tweeting vastly outweigh any perceived benefits. Partly it’s that once-appealing platforms are overrun with trolls, spam, and ads .

While I have about 70,000 followers on Twitter, I have a mere 47 on Bluesky. I follow 13 people, most of whom I know and like in real life. And while my Twitter timeline is cluttered with people writing about how fucked up our fucked up world is , my sparse Bluesky feed is full of refreshingly pedestrian thoughts; “more like WHACK mirror — a thing i say to myself every three years when there are new, disappointing episodes of black mirror,” my friend Kevin posted the other day.

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