Twitter founder Jack Dorsey launches new social media platform Bluesky

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Yet another DOA twitter clone brought to you by a guy who couldn't get it right the first time or the second.

Twitter's value is in the active userbase and cultural relevance. I'll believe it has real competition when people stop announcing their departure and quietly returning shortly thereafter from whatever dead platform they absconded to.

Why do these things look and work the same as twitter? Has everything been done?

No, but successful new ideas in the space are _relatively_ rare. Twitter itself ultimately acquired most of its features from third party apps, Tumblr, Pownce and other contemporaries, or just user behaviour (eg users invented retweets without any platform support); the _original_ Twitter was _very_ bare-bones.

i see. well hopefully one of them will try something new

Mastodon looks alive to me. It’s not a Twitter killer, but its position is cemented.

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