I've written previously about my frustration with Twitter, which has been an indispensable part of crypto since the early days but has in recent months devolved into a glitch-prone mess swamped by bots and a growing number of Nazis. Fearing that the platform would only get worse (a reasonable fear it turns out), I started casting about for alternatives, starting with the Jack Dorsey-backed open protocol called Bluesky. I've been on it for two weeks now, and here's what I've found.
For the most part, I love it. The interface is basically Twitter but stripped down and with some different lingo—you skeet rather than tweet and you repost rather than retweet. Bluesky still lacks some key features like DMs and lists, and the app still feels a bit buggy when you load it. But these relatively minor drawbacks are more than offset by the high caliber of the content, which is loaded with high-signal stuff, including from people like lawyer Ken White (aka PopeHat) who quit Twitter in disgust.
