Social networking startup Bluesky is seizing the moment. Amid ongoing moderation issues affecting X rival Instagram Threads, the decentralized X competitor Bluesky has created an account on Meta ...

But Bluesky's growth trajectory - with a user base that has more than doubled since October - could make it a serious competitor to other social platforms. But with growth comes growing pains.

Rather than require you to figure out which server to join, as Mastodon does, Bluesky initially centralized the user experience on one server so users could see one feed, just like on Twitter.

Bluesky has seen its user base soar since the U.S. presidential election, boosted by people seeking refuge from Elon Musk's X, or wanting an alternative to Meta's Threads and its algorithms.

Liu also said that Bluesky was working on “easier visual signals we could use for verification so it's a better user experience,” though it’s not yet clear what form that might take.

For Bluesky, Massive User Uptick Brings Growing Pains and Divisive Bots. It’s not just human users who’ve been flocking to Bluesky but also bots, including those designed to create partisan ...

Bluesky has seen its user base soar since the U.S. presidential election, boosted by people seeking refuge from Elon Musk’s X, which they view as increasingly leaning too far to the right given ...

Bluesky has seen its user base soar since the U.S. presidential election, boosted by people seeking refuge from Elon Musk's X, or wanting an alternative to Meta's Threads and its algorithms.