Sentenced to Musk? “Bluesky doesn’t propose anything new”
There are no ads, troll farms or promoted content. For now, however, there are not many users and there are few entries. We are talking about Bluesky – a social networking site that, in the eyes of critics of the former Twitter, may be its alternative. For now, however, Bluesky remains an internet curiosity and an expression of a political manifestation.
Twitter/X has endured several downfalls of its own. Both conservatives and liberals predicted its end. Over the last few years, the website’s policy has discouraged some people from continuing to use the platform and forced them to look for an alternative. Mastodon, Threads, Gab, True Social, and even the Polish Albicla – all these Twitter-like sites experienced a period of massive influx of refugees from the old Twitter. Then they quickly faded into oblivion. Today they operate on the outskirts of the world of social media.
After the American presidential elections, a contender appeared again to bite portal X’s ankles. This is Bluesky. In the first dozen or so days after Donald Trump’s victory, the website with a blue butterfly in its logo gained over 20 million new users. Accounts were created there mainly by people who were disappointed with the election results and who were trying to get back at the owner of X, Elon Musk – one of the most important architects of Donald Trump’s victory.
Even during the campaign, Elon Musk was accused of harnessing the former Twitter into a political fight and turning it into a mouthpiece for pro-Trumpists. He himself had not hidden his political sympathies for a long time, and in his final years he became directly involved in supporting the Republican candidate: financially and in the media.
– Thanks to his brutal and impulsive method, the eccentric billionaire destroyed the foundations of Twitter, opened the door to disinformation and alienated advertisers on which the company almost exclusively depends. New competitors will not hesitate to put a nail in Twitter’s coffin, wrote Francois Manens in La Tribune.
But despite further troubles, rumors about the end of Platform X seem exaggerated. Although it is indeed a serious disease that also infects public debate, it is doubtful that Bluesky will be a cure for it.
