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Bluesky is ushering in a pick-your-own algorithm era of social media

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190 points amichail | 1 comments | 20 Nov 24 12:59 UTC | HN request time: 0.211s | source
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blastersyndrome ◴[20 Nov 24 19:15 UTC] No.42197160[source]▶
Why do I keep seeing news stories about Bluesky here? It really feels like there some kind of campaign to shill Bluesky on this site.

Does anybody else get this vibe or am I going crazy?

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1. r00fus ◴[20 Nov 24 22:11 UTC] No.42198644[source]▶
Given Musk's direct involvement in Trump's agenda, and his previous desires to make Twitter into an everything app like WeChat, his politicization of the platform - there's an interested in where those people go.

1) People were wondering since 2022 what would happen to Twitter (and it's users) since Musk's acquisition.

2) Musk decided to become actively political and to actively change Twitter as a company and a service.

3) Bluesky had previously existed as a spiritual successor to Twitter and is now gaining steam as a true successor (Mastodon didn't really get that spike, and Threads is quite different from Twitter and heavily integrated with FB and Insta).