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Bluesky is a text-oriented social media platform on which users can post messages as long as 300 characters. Like X, the messages posted on Bluesky appear on a newsfeed displayed to users. The app ...
The social media app Bluesky has seen its user base increase by 1.25 million since the U.S. Presidential elections as some people leave rival X, which is owned by Elon Musk.
In December 2023, Bluesky Social announced a company logo to replace the previous use of a cloudy sky stock image, which was also used as the icon for the official app and website. This icon was a blue butterfly, inspired by existing users' usage of the butterfly emoji to indicate their handles on the service.
Bluesky, a fledgling social media platform, reported Thursday that 1 million users had signed up in a single day. Some frustrated X users appear to have flocked to the newer network in recent weeks.
Beyond social networking. Bluesky, though, has bigger ambitions than to supplant X. Beyond the platform itself, it is building a technical foundation — what it calls “a protocol for public ...
Lantian Graber was born in 1991 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, to a mother of Chinese descent, an acupuncturist by trade, and a mathematics teacher father of Swiss descent. [1] [2] Her mother, who grew up in China during the Cultural Revolution and emigrated in the 1980s, named her daughter "Lantian" (), meaning "blue sky" in Mandarin Chinese, as a wish for her to have "boundless freedom". [1]
The largest App View on the protocol is currently Bluesky, although other App Views, such as WhiteWind (a long-form blogging platform), Frontpage (a Hacker News-style social news website) and Smoke Signal (an RSVP management service) are also available within the protocol. [31] [32] [33]
Social media site Bluesky has gained 1 million new users in the week since the U.S. election, as some X users look for an alternative platform to post their thoughts and engage with others online.