Blue Sky Social is designed to kill Twitter

In case you missed it, last week I put out a video about how a new social media platform founded by Jack Dorsey (the guy who originally founded Twitter) stands a good chance at changing the nature of social media altogether.  One common problem with social media since the inception of Facebook is that once you build up a community, the platform owns your social connections. If you stop liking the platforms there's no way for you to take all of your friends with you somewhere else. This leads to what Cory Doctorow calls the "enshittification" of the internet--where after an initial honeymoon phase, social media platforms get worse every subsequent month. 

Enter BlueSky social which is designed with a new decentralized protocol that will allow you to make a single network for friends and connections, and then take those connections with you wherever you want.   And whenever you want.  This means social media platforms have to work to keep you in place, rather than slowly destroying whatever value they used to offer in an effort to monetize your attention.  

If this becomes the new standard for the Internet there is a chance that social media could have a bright future.