We all know the story in broad strokes: Jack Dorsey creator of Twitterone day in April 2022, out of the blue he wrote a letter of apology for “centralizing the internet” and allowing what ended up happening to his social network.
What ended up happening next was even stranger. Since we witnessed how this inexplicable and unexpected spiral began where Elon Musk He began acquiring Twitter shares, apparently with the intention of inflating their value and then selling them at a higher price, but he ended up being forced to buy the platform.
Since then we have seen how Twitter has gone through all kinds of calamities, from losing its name, owing rent on its offices and becoming virtually useless in multiple aspects. Even that increasingly uncomfortable feeling that apparently they want to charge for everything now.
In recent months we have been helpless witnesses of what Elon Musk has done to .
But Jack Dorsey did not stand still and founded a new platform: Bluesky. A project that seemed almost harmless at first but has now grown more thanks to a millionaire injection of funds.
At the time we signed up for the waiting list for the beta phase of the social network and a week ago we finally received the invitation. These are our impressions.
Bluesky is just like Twitter at the beginning: zero misinformation, with microblogging and without Elon Musk
In recent years, Twitter had been the subject of intense debate. On the one hand, its potential to connect people, share information and create communities is recognized. But on the other hand, his ability to serve as a spreader of hate, misinformation and polarization was also criticized.
All of these negative factors increased when Musk took control of Twitter to turn it into X. Under such a context, Bluesky was born as something diametrically opposed in more ways than one.
This is a project designed to be a decentralized and open platform, allowing users to control their data and experience.
There are several reasons why Bluesky could overtake X, the company formerly known as Twitter. First of all, Bluesky is the already addressed factor of being decentralized, which makes it more resistant to censorship and manipulation.
This means that there is no single entity that controls the platform. Instead, users own their data and are in control of their experience.
Secondly, Bluesky is, in theory, an open platform. This means that anyone can contribute to its development. And thirdly, the social network is designed to be respectful of privacy. The platform uses end-to-end encryption to protect everyone’s data.
Its biggest challenge for now is finding a way to become more scalable to be able to serve a large number of users while maintaining the current order.
Fortunately, account setup is a quick and simple process. The community at this point is as harmless as Threads or even more so.
But there are natural shortcomings due to the growth point of the app. Photos can be shared, but not video. There are no GIF animations, but there is the equivalent of Fav and Retweet.
Finding someone to follow can also be complex unless you follow celebrity accounts. But the sense of peace and order really reminds us of the original Twitter. The one that was good.