Bluesky: The Future of Social Media
Bluesky is the newest decentralized social media platform that attempts to replace Twitter. With anyone being able to host their own server, Bluesky is a “billionaire-proof” platform that is free from the control of any one company. New social media comes with benefits, from escaping censorship to being able to set a username as your domain name. Most of the time, Bluesky is considered an alternative to X, formally called Twitter.
Why Bluesky?
The purchase of Twitter by Elon Musk infuriated many, who felt that the “town square” of the internet was being replaced with a right-wing echo chamber. With few alternatives, users were to either deal with the growing pains of X or leave the platform entirely. Bluesky was the answer to this problem. With decentralized servers, even if the platform is purchased, people can easily move to a new platform without losing their followers and posts.
With freedom comes features (comments)
Bluesky allows us to create a comment section that uses Bluesky posts as blog comments. Cory Zue even created an npm package called bluesky-comments that allows us to easily add Bluesky comments to our blog (huge thanks to him!!).
This would not have been possible with Twitter in its current state, as Twitter is a centralized platform that now charges money for access to its API.
Enjoy the comments section!!
This will be the first blog on my website to have a comment section. I am excited to see how this will turn out. Feel free to leave a comment below and follow me on Bluesky (located at the top of my page)!