Will This Social Media Platform Eclipse Elon Musk’s X?
By Movieguide® Contributor
Will the new social media platform Bluesky replace Elon Musk’s X?
Following Donald Trump’s victory and his appointment of Musk to co-lead the new Department of Government Efficiency, Bluesky has seen an influx of 1.5 million new users.
“Championed by former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, Bluesky was an invitation-only space until it opened to the public in February. That invite-only period gave the site time to build out moderation tools and other features. The platform resembles Musk’s X, with a ‘discover’ feed and a chronological feed for accounts that users follow. Users can send direct messages and pin posts, as well as find “starter packs” that provide a curated list of people and custom feeds to follow,” AP News reported.
Forbes highlighted how Bluesky differs from X:
- Bluesky was conceived of as a research project to “decentralize” Twitter.
- Bluesky now operates as a “decentralized” social media platform, which means users can create their own servers on which they can store data and set their own rules, instead of using servers owned by the company.
- Many of the functions on Bluesky are similar to those on X, including the ability to make text-based posts with a 256-character limit (known as “skeets”) that can also include images and videos, re-post and like other posts and reply to other users.
- Bluesky has a moderation team to enforce community guidelines—which forbid promoting “hate or extremist conduct,” a common criticism of X under Musk—and lets users use a collaborative moderation tool called Ozone to moderate communities on the platform.
Bluesky came onto the scene in October 2021. Since then, its user base has exceeded 13 million users, Bluesky said.
X, meanwhile, boasts 250 million users who use the platform daily and 335.7 million who use it monthly. Bluesky is still a long way off from those numbers, and it remains to be seen if it’s popularity will continue to grow.
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