It's a big week for Bluesky: the social network, which has been invitation-only since its launch, is now open to everybody. You can access it via the website bsky.app or via dedicated phone apps for iOS and Android; there are also some fun third-party apps such as Greysky.
As we wrote last year, Bluesky is a kind of X/Twitter replacement, although it's unlikely to ever be as big as the pre-Elon Twitter was. But that's not necessarily a bad thing. As a relatively long-term Bluesky user I've found that there's a lot of reasons to consider it as at least one of the places you hang out online. It's not perfect – it lacks direct messaging, you can't lock down your account to make it private and there are concerns about whether Bluesky has the right systems in place to deal with the abuse and trolling that comes to all networks sooner or later – but it's pretty good.
