BlueSky lacks the opportunity to explain to people that its network is more than just its own social application.
In recent weeks, many headlines and posts have appeared BlueSky's growth is fallingIf The network has become Too many Left-leaning echo chamberor if it Users lack a sense of humorAmong other allegations.
Investor Mark Cuban, who even financially supported Skylight, a video application built on the basic BlueSky protocol, in Proto, complained this week that the answers to BlueSky became too hateful.
“The commitment came from great conversions on many topics to agree with me or you are a Nazi fascist,” he wrote in Post on BlueSky. He said that he “forces” people to return to X.
Of course, the owner X, Elon Musk and the general director of Linda Yaccarino, used these anxieties, with the former appointment This BlueSky is a “group of Super Judgy Hall monitors” and the latter proclamation This X is a “real” global city square.
The debate on this subject is not surprising.
No more direct emphasis on presenting a wider application network built on Open protocol The fact that BlueSky's team was managed is only a matter of time before the Bluesky brand became pigeon as a liberal and left -wing alternative to X.
This characteristics of BlueSky, however, is not a full picture of what the company built – but it can become an obstacle to further growth if it is not corrected.
It is true that many of the initial BlueSky users are those who abandoned X because they were dissatisfied with the new ownership within musk and accompanying its correct change. After the November election in the United States, the adoption of BlueSky increased when users X escaped from the platform managed by Trump greatest Individual supporter. At that time, BlueSky quickly added millions of users, climbing from the northern part of 9 million users in September to almost 15 million until mid -November, and then 20 million just days later.
This growth lasted in the following months, when the best democrats such as Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton joined the application. Today BlueSky has Over 36.5 million Registered users, its public data indicate.
Therefore, it follows that users' conversations about messages and politics about BlueSky would help define the tons of the network when they became dominant voices. Of course, this may mean trouble for any social network as partisan applications both on the left To talkIt was not possible to successfully challenge X.
BlueSky is more than its application
This current narrative lacks the fact that BlueSky's social application is to be only one example of what is possible in the wider Proto ecosystem. If you do not like the tons of topics of BlueSky trends, you can go to other applications, change the default channels, and even build your own social platform using this technology.
People are already using a protocol that supplies BlueSky to build social experience for specific groups – such as Blacksky He does for the black community online or likes Gander Social He does for social media users in Canada.
There are also channel designers, such as Graz and Surfing, which allow you to create non -standard channels in which you can focus on specific content that you care about – such as video games or baseball – and exclude others, such as politics.
Built in blues (and other external customers) are tools that allow you to choose the default channel and add others that you are interested in from a number of topics. If you want to follow the channel dedicated to yours Favorite television program Or animalFor example, you can.
In other words, BlueSky is to be what you create, and its content can be consumed in any format that you prefer best.
In addition to BlueSky itself, a wider application network built on the AT protocol includes applications for sharing photos and videos, live tools, communication applications, blog applications, music applications, applications for film and television recommendations and many others.
Other tools also allow you to connect BlueSky channels with other social networks.
For example, OpenVibe can combine channels from social networks, such as threads, blues, mastodon and nosta. Applications such as surfing and tapestry offer ways to track posts on open social platforms, as well as those published with other open protocols, such as RSS. This allows applications to download content from blogs, information services, YouTube and podcasts.
The BlueSky team may not be the one who directly builds these other social experiences and tools, but emphasizes and promoting the existence of this wider, connected social network of Bluesky.
It shows that BlueSky is not only more than just the Twitter/X alternative, this is only one application in a wider social ecosystem built on open technology – and this is greater than just building another X.
