The Great Migration to Bluesky Gives Me Hope for the Future of the Internet

Over the last week , more than a million people have joined Bluesky .

Bluesky is different and, in my opinion, better than X and Threads because it is operated as a public benefit corporation and not owned by an oligarch.

It is decentralized and federated, meaning it is moving toward a future where users “own” their audiences.

This gives people a permission structure to abandon Mastodon accounts, use Threads , and passively invest in the future of decentralized social media.

Flipboard 's CEO Mike McCue and ProPublica 's Ben Werdmuller are extremely bullish on the future.

This makes for what is at the moment a really bad dynamic, where you’re broadcasting your Threads posts to the fediverse, and people on Mastodon can respond to them.

I think that the “Starter Packs ” that let you follow tons of people at once according to your interests have made the onboarding process really easy. What’s happening on Bluesky right now feels organic and it feels real in a way no other Twitter replacement has felt so far, and it feels better than X.com has been ever since Elon Musk took over. If the masses are going to move off Twitter , we can do much better than Threads . And we could do much worse than Bluesky ..