Bluesky: Alternative Social Media

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X users jump to Bluesky - but what is it and who owns it?

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Bluesky describes itself as "social media as it should be" It is a decentralised version of Twitter that no single person or entity owns the site.

It is currently picking up around one million new sign-ups a day.

Bluesky 's app continues to pick up significant downloads worldwide and was the top free app in the Apple App Store in the UK .

But if it is not making very much money, that would not be unusual for tech startups. In fact, Twitter , before it was purchased by Mr Musk in 2022 , only made a profit twice in its eight years of being publicly traded. And we all know how that ended - a massive payday for investors when the world's richest man paid $ 44bn ( 34.7bn ) for the privilege of owning it. For now, the future of Bluesky remains unknown, but if its growth continues, anything is possible..

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informal

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English

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not hateful