We took Jack Dorsey's Bluesky Social (a Twitter alternative) for a test-drive. Here's what we learned.
with Twitter, it's distributed so that anyone can build an interface to display the data and activity flowing underneath. It's also designed so that your identity and information is easily transferable to any other platform that supports the protocol .
Yes, it does look like a trimmed-down version of Twitter. On your Profile page there are avatar images and a wide banner image above that, which can be a photo, as well. Your tabs for Following, Followers, and Posts are right below that. The Home screen has just Home, Search, Notifications, and Profile. The content flow has just two streams: Following and What's Hot.
Your up-to 300-character posts can include links , images from your library, or photos from your camera. It lacks a GIF library, which does limit expression somewhat, and also the ability to bookmark favorite posts. However, while the platform can feel somewhat threadbare in places, it never feels amateurish.
I quickly found that the navel-gazing I participated in on Twitter, constantly checking my own mentions and likes or retweets on my posts, didn't really work on BlueSky. The action instead was in what I brought to other people's posts and conversations.
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