This Platform Was Supposed to Replace Twitter. It’s Not Going So Well.

Bluesky 's big breakthrough as an alternative to the Elon Muskified Twitter was seven months ago .

The site got a surge of new sign-ups almost immediately after the election.

But user growth has slowed, with the site now at about 36.5 million accounts.

Bluesky does feel like the concentration of old # Resistance Twitter , conjoined with a dash of Facebook refugees.

Frida Ghitis: Bluesky has the thing I want most: a nice community of a few thousand people (“my mutuals”) who riff about sports and TV and seem to want to live in a better world.

She says Bluesky falls into the rage-bait trap that comes for all social media, but because it’s a platform full of people who are either sad, angry, or desperate about the state of the world, the kinds of posts that proliferate around that platform are mostly not fun posts.

Frida Ghitis : When it comes to the basic function, I’d much rather have Bluesky over the alternatives.

She says Bluesky has a significant left-of-center bent, but it’s never hive-minded into a wrong conclusion.

The platform needs more people posting about more things, Ghitis says.