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Bluesky has made it. I can once again explain very online things to my not very online wife and have her stare at me, bewildered. We’re back baby!!!!

Traffic from Bluesky's @bsky.app to @theguardian.com is already 2x that of Threads In its first week on the platform & with 300k followers, Bluesky traffic from @theguardian.com posts is already higher than it was from TwX in any week in 2024, where the account had 10.8m followers, but🧵

The interesting/inconsistent thing about Musk here is that he's supposedly championed getting information "from the source". Throttling links and promoting screenshotted or directly uploaded content prevents that. It's almost as if he doesn't believe what he says.

BREAKING: F1 announces it has "reached an agreement in principle with General Motors (GM) to support bringing GM/Cadillac as the eleventh team to the Formula 1 grid in 2026" #F1

Others have noted it but I will too: The big reason Bluesky is so hot right now is that the people who add value to social media - the frequent posters in specific fields - are here now, talking to each other and creating the "spectator value" that draws users and attention.

deck.blue is a 3rd-party TweetDeck for Bluesky! - Multi-column & multi-account - Bookmark posts - Language filters - Disable reposts - #hashtag/Search columns - Keyboard shortcuts - Color themes - Gallery/Grid Mode - Filter notifications by type - Inline translations - Scheduling Patreon | Ko-fi

Appreciate this may not be a universally popular opinion but the less you treat BlueSky as a crusade or cause, and the more you position it as simply a superior user experience with a better governance approach, the more sustainable the growth will be.

Pergunta estúpida, hoje em dia em caso de doença súbita devemos ligar o 112 ou o 808 24 24 24 é que em alguns hospitais é suposto ligar antes para a saúde 24. Já uniformizavam isso

Bluesky now has over 20M people!! 🎉 We've been adding over a million users per day for the last few days. To celebrate, here are 20 fun facts about Bluesky:

Despite a massive head start, BlueSky has now overtaken Threads in the US 👇

just in case you all still don't know the story behind deck.blue yet

Here’s some cool stuff you can do with Bluesky The social network has some unique and fun features to try.

Live view of our servers hanging in there as people keep coming on

Bienvenidos España!

Why did Russia know about the approval for deep strikes from the newspapers and not from missiles landing on their airfields?

What a lovely example of how an open source protocol enables.

Esta rede social precisa de mais Eusébio 😍

Where is a "tweetdeck" for Bluesky? since it's opensource it should be fairly easy to build one 🤔

If the Matt Gaetz report exonerated him, he would not have resigned from Congress to avoid it.

Twitter is now truth social, where only the right wing crazy people go?

Só, what's up in here?

Bluesky is now the #2 social app in the US, Canada, and #3 in the UK 🦋 On bsky, ~30% of y'all are posters compared to the 1% main characters on other platforms. Turns out there's more chattiness & connection when you have algorithmic choice 🤭

Still can't believe Israel with all its tech and innovation mindset is losing the information war.

A brilliant chess move would be if @bsky.app rebrands to Twitter. 😂 For how long does X own the trademark?

Bluesky is getting closer to hitting the critical mass that will make it the clear alternative to Twitter. @bsky.app please allow us to associate our x-Twitter handle with our profile here and make it possible to follow/sync the people we already follow on Twitter using that data point. 🌈 magic 🌈

What's the official number of countries at war that are needed to be officially recognized as a World War? Asking for a friend.

Hells Kitchen com famosos. Quantas piadas vão ser feitas a envolver farinha?

Parece tanto o twitter de 2010 que deviamos marcar um leitão para estes lados. #Leitao2010 #neverforget

Isto tem tanto ar de Twitter em 2009. Aprecio com vontade.

Here for the birds.