The not-a-Twitter-clone is exploding, and its CEO promises to not repeat old social-media mistakes. Her strategy? Massively empower users to decide how the service works.
Like the conflicted cowboy in Brokeback Mountain, journalists, pundits and people who eschew MAGA merch have looked at the service formerly known as Twitter and lamented, “I don’t know how to quit you.” Even before Elon Musk took over, toxicity was running rampant, and Musk’s selectively implemented “free speech” principles made things worse. The ubiquitous ads—often low-quality ones promoting clickbait or a candidate you’d never vote for—further torched the experience.
feature about how users of the then-nascent Twitter were shaping it and even defining its purpose. While the company’s executives had ambitious goals for the service, even back then some were arguing for an open system for short-form posts—much like the federated vision that Bluesky is pursuing. It's not that Twitter lacks ambition. The scale of its vision was revealed last summer when a hacker stole hundreds of the company's confidential documents and leaked them to TechCrunch.
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