Bluesky Becomes the Hottest Club Online as Twitter Users Fight for Invites – Yahoo

bluesky-RS-1800 – Credit: Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesImagine a distant future in which humans compete for passenger seats on a spaceship headed away from this dying Earth to a more habitable planet. That’s more or less the current scene on Twitter — a slowly collapsing social network — as people scramble for access to Bluesky, a decentralized alternative that emerged from Twitter itself under co-founder and former CEO Jack Dorsey.The desperation to flee a once-dominant app stems from the many changes made to it by current owner Elon Musk, who acquired the platform for $44 billion last year. Since then, it has welcomed back hate speech and conspiracist accounts, grown increasingly glitchy as Musk slashed staff, and abolished the old identity verification system in favor of paid subscriptions to Twitter Blue, which has allowed all manner of trolls and grifters to buy an algorithmic boost on the site.More from Rolling StoneTwitter Faces Fresh Controversy After Verifying Fake Disney Junior Account That Uses Racial Slurs BuzzFeed, Elon Musk, and AI-Drake: How the 2010s Era Came to an EndTwitter Users With a Million Followers Are Getting ‘Paid’ Blue Checks, Like It or NotBluesky, whose interface resembles Twitter without certain features (including blocks and
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