The X competitor is now open to the public—but until the platform establishes an identity, it will be more of the same.
Like any good citizen of the internet, I went hunting for memes when I first heard the news. Rachel Dolezal, the notorious race grifter who courted controversy in 2015, had been fired from her teaching gig for operating an OnlyFans account. I was in need of a good laugh. Only, I wasn’t having much luck. I happened to be in foreign territory, on Bluesky, the Jack Dorsey-endorsed social media app hailed as The Next Big Thing, when News4 Tucson broke the story.
The sudden slump resembled the same boom-and-bust pattern that occurred with Threads, making plain the difficulty in preserving the appeal of new social platforms in an already crowded ecosystem. The sour reality of it doesn’t make what’s happening in this moment any less persuasive. There is excitement in what awaits us on the other side, in what comes next.
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