BlueSky Social

Bluesky is an open social network app that gives creators independence from platforms, developers the freedom to build, and users a choice in their experience. Bluesky isn't owned by the techbros at Meta or X, and there's no algorithm to fight, and no invasive "Sponsored Posts, "Suggested Post" that tramples over your feed so FB can make money.

Jamais Cascio, in his 2025 book Navigating the Age of Chaos: A Sense-Making Guide to a BANI World that Doesn't Make Sense, notes that "social media is often an engine of chaos", but points to Bluesky as an example of "how organizations can bend and flip a brittle system" using AT Protocol (an open standard for distributed social networking services). Bluesky Social PBC owns the technology, but it has announced that it will soon transfer ownership to the Internet Engineering Task Force."

In 2021, former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey tapped Jay Graber to lead the Bluesky project, which was spun off as an independent public benefit company, just before Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter. Bluesky CEO Jay Graber has been banning people like Laura Loomer, Musk, and MTG within an hour of them joining.

In September 2023, Bluesky only had around 1 million registered users, but this figure climbed to more than 20 million by the end of November 2024 and over 40 million as of November 2025, While impressive growth, this is still low compared with X's roughly 560 million users, but high in comparison to Truth Social's base, estimated at 2 million – 6.3 million monthly users.

D S Shiffman and J Wester wrote in 2025: Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have switched to Bluesky. Research shows that "many scientists have abandoned it [Twitter] in favor of Bluesky" and that "for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter."

Meanwhile, NPR reports in mid-February 2025, "Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg took the stand in Los Angeles in a trial that could reshape social media. The plaintiffs are accusing platforms like Instagram and Facebook of being intentionally designed to hook teenagers, sparking a nationwide youth mental health crisis. The case hinges on whether the tech companies engineer “defective products” to exploit vulnerabilities in young people's brains."

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