I hear people say that Bluesky is like early Twitter. Part of me feels that that can’t be possible in this day and age. Twitter came about in a world that didn’t have Twitter, so the strategies used by those to gain vitality or grief people had to be learned. Those strategies today are refined to the point where they could be employed on any new Twitter-like social network with an algorithmic timeline.
I wasn’t one of those early Twitter users so I can’t know what it was like back then. These feelings I have come about by occasionally dipping into Bluesky’s Discover feed with my guard up, only to pull out a few minutes later when I reach my limit of seeing late-Twitter-like posts. I can’t say it’s a place where I’d like to spend my time. If early Twitter was like that, then I can understand why it took me until 2019 to sign up.