{"id":17068,"date":"2024-11-22T15:30:06","date_gmt":"2024-11-22T16:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=17068"},"modified":"2024-11-22T17:23:54","modified_gmt":"2024-11-22T17:23:54","slug":"bluesky-is-turning-into-a-strong-x-alternative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=17068","title":{"rendered":"Bluesky Is Turning Into a Strong X Alternative"},"content":{"rendered":"
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After an hour or so of scrolling through Bluesky the other night, I felt something I haven\u2019t felt on social media in a long time: free.<\/p>\n

Free from Elon Musk, and his tedious quest to turn X into a right-wing echo chamber where he and his friends are the permanent, inescapable main characters.<\/p>\n

Free from Threads and its suffocating algorithm, which suppresses news and real-time discussions in favor of bland engagement bait.<\/p>\n

Free from my own bad habit, honed through years of obsessive Twitter use, of packaging my thoughts for consumption by an audience of opinionated strangers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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You may be wondering why Bluesky \u2014 an experimental social media app that was started in 2019 under Jack Dorsey, Twitter\u2019s former chief executive, before becoming an independent company in 2021 \u2014 is attracting so much attention<\/a> these days.<\/p>\n

In the past several weeks, the app has swelled to more than 20 million users, and is adding more than a million users a day. It\u2019s been the top-ranked free app on both Apple\u2019s and Google\u2019s app stores. Celebrities, politicians and artists are flocking to it. A.O.C.! Lizzo! Mark Cuban! Its 20-person team can barely keep up with all the growth<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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After an hour or so of scrolling through Bluesky the other night, I felt something I haven\u2019t felt on social media in a long time: free.Free from Elon Musk, and his tedious quest to turn X into a right-wing echo chamber where he and his friends are the permanent, inescapable main characters.Free from Threads and its suffocating algorithm, which suppresses news and real-time discussions in favor of bland engagement bait.Free from my own bad habit, honed through years of obsessive Twitter use, of packaging my thoughts for consumption by an audience of opinionated strangers.You may be wondering why Bluesky \u2014 an experimental social media app that was started in 2019 under Jack Dorsey, Twitter\u2019s former chief executive, before becoming an independent company in 2021 \u2014 is attracting so much attention these days.In the past several weeks, the app has swelled to more than 20 million users, and is adding more than a million users a day. It\u2019s been the top-ranked free app on both Apple\u2019s and Google\u2019s app stores. Celebrities, politicians and artists are flocking to it. A.O.C.! Lizzo! Mark Cuban! Its 20-person team can barely keep up with all the growth.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17070,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17068"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17071,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17068\/revisions\/17071"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}