Mr. Blue Sky

I opened an account on the new social-media platform Bluesky just before Thanksgiving.  I officially launched it this past Sunday - symbolically, Sunday the 1st - by posting my first link, a link to my post of that day this blog. 

Bluesky is a social media platform that attempts to be what Mastodon has tried to be - an alternative to X, the Elon Musk-owned social media platform formerly known as Twitter.  Bluesky's membership has grown exponentially since Trump forced Kamala Harris into early retirement, with many people fleeing Musk's X left and left.  the objective is to provide a safe space for anti-Trumpers and liberals of various degrees to communicate with each other without trolling.

Of course, it may not take long for right-wingers to start trolling Bluesky users by opening their own accounts on the platform, but the difference is they don't own it, they only rent accounts like anyone else.  Bluesky is likely to have far more stringent content standards than X currently does, and those who have fled X for Bluesky will guard their safe space like a mother bear protecting her cubs.  Me, I plan to use Bluesky the same way I used Twitter - to post links to my blog and do little else.

And I certainly won't be critiquing black women for their hairstyles. 😉