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The Truth About Bluesky: The Five Things You Need to Know About the Buzzy New Social Networking Service

I’ve been on 130 social media sites and publish a leading ranking of alternatives to Twitter. I was a professor of digital communications and digital-age cultural theory. Here’s what I see at Bluesky.

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Seth Abramson
May 02, 2023
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Bluesky buzz: Why the social media platform is being called the next Twitter

{Note: Those looking to read up on one of the subcultures that pervades Bluesky after formerly occupying a corner of Twitter, a microcommunity known as TPOT or postrat, should go here. The values of the group include deliberate illegibility, a refusal to discuss public policy at the level of logistics, hostility to bona fides indicating expertise, shitp…

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