Bluesky gained 2.5 million users in the last week. Millions of people left the old Twitter because they were unhappy with the “toxic” platform.
In recent days, the application founded by the former creator of Twitter, Bluesky, exploded in app stores: it was even the most installed at some points last week in the USA and the United Kingdom.
This week, even some internationally renowned newspaperslike The Guardian, which the platform displays “disturbing content” or Spanish La Vanguardia, announced that they would abandon the social network X.
Now, some public figures are following this trend. Today the author Stephen King called the platform “toxic”, announcing that he would abandon it. The actress Jamie Lee Curtis did so too, accusing X of displaying “disturbing” content, such as racist and far-right publications.
Most celebrities and the population who abandon the old Twitter are now looking for alternatives, ranging from the recent Threads, from the company Meta, accessible through Instagram, to the most popular application, Bluesky.
But, after all, what is Bluesky?
According to , the application is defined as “social media as it should be” — a place where people can come together for interests common “and have fun again”.
On Thursday night, the platform that another million people had joined within 24 hours. This accession occurred days after the US presidential elections that gave victory to Trump, supported by the owner of X, Elon Musk.
According to the BBC, users of the “new” social network can publish texts, images and videos, respond to other users publicly or have individual conversations in direct messagesalthough these are still not protected by the most secure and private method, end-to-end encryption.
It works a bit like X, but “decentralized“, the co-creator had already said, Jack Dorsey, who is no longer part of the company. At the moment, the social network is considered in the USA as a public utility company. On Thursday, reached a total of 16 million users.
The social network had already seen a spike in downloads in 2023, when Musk made changes to X’s policies.
But, according to the BBC, Bluesky also has some flaws. On Thursday, some users around the world had problems loading their feeds and notifications.
Bluesky’s spokesperson, Emily Liutold the BBC that one of its internet providers “had some downtime, apparently because a fiber cable was faulty. This means that the problem occurred outside our company.” Even so, the problem is already solved and it did not occur for all users.
If you’re thinking about leaving Musk’s social network, you know: in the application library, look for the butterfly with a blue background.
