"Some of the staff seem to be accomplished shitposters themselves, which I think is a great energy that has been lacking with other Twitter alternatives," Burroughs told TechCrunch. Some Bluesky developers are very active on the platform that they're building in real time, responding to users' questions, complaints and feature suggestions, all while still acting like a real person. Rich Burroughs, a developer advocate, thinks that this culture was formed from the top down. So, people are calling Bluesky posts "skeets," a portmanteau of "tweet" and "sky" that I am pretty sure is slang for ejaculate fluid but I will not fact check that because I am holding on to my one last shred of sanity. There is no name for posts, like how Twitter has tweets, or how Mastodon used to have toots until they retired that branding because they're cowards. In what feels like a few days, a silly and chaotic culture has developed on Bluesky. (Yes, we know how sad it is that we are so excited for a Twitter alternative that is literally funded by a Twitter founder who publicly declared that Musk is the " singular solution" he trusts with his old company.)Īs one astute Bluesky user, Pavel Samsonov, wrote: " bluesky (serious people making silly little posts) is the spiritual opposite of linkedin (deeply silly people trying to write serious thoughtposts)." Samsonov even included a handy visual aid. Before we could have ever considered that Musk would buy Twitter, the "bluesky initiative" was central to the company's long game - now the independent team has launched its invite-only beta, still operating with funding from Dorsey. Like Mastodon, Bluesky plans to be federated, meaning that endless individually operated communities can exist within an open source network.
That is, in part, because of how much shitposting is going on there.īluesky hatched from Twitter's nest in 2019, when Twitter founder Jack Dorsey announced that the platform would fund a small, independent team to develop a decentralized standard for social media. There's Mastodon, T2, Spoutible, Hive, Post, Cohost and so many more, but no Twitter alternative has felt as promising as Bluesky. I have joined so many social media websites since October 27, 2022, the fateful day in which Elon Musk tanked his net worth and volunteered for the worst job in the world.
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