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Jack Dorsey says Bluesky's rapid growth is because 'people are running away from X' (www.businessinsider.com)

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Jack Dorsey weighed in on people leaving one platform he founded (X, formerly Twitter) to join another he helped create (BlueSky).

"I think people are running away from X, rather than running to something on Bluesky," the Twitter cofounder said in a recent episode of the "In Good Company" podcast when asked why Bluesky is growing so fast.

"That's not a great way to build a product, unfortunately. We want people that are running to us for a particular thing that they couldn't do before," he added.

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"Bluesky has built something that I wanted it to build and I'm excited about, which is this algorithm store, being able to choose your own algorithms," Dorsey said.

"That is a reason why people will run to it eventually, and I think why people run to these services eventually because they get more agency and more control — but it's not something that people care about right now," he added. "What they care about right now is not being in X for whatever personal reason."

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[-] Gloria@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 week ago

People really need to learn that there is no final plattform. Facebook and Whatsapp can not be the final answer to how we communicate for the next decades. There is no problem having more than one app for communication. And Twitter can not be the last short message plattform. We can not expect a platform to exist for 50 years without any change to the better or worst. If you are not changing every 10 years the infrastructure you are communicating over, and that was with a private corporation in the past, chances are, you've were getting taken advantage of. If you are unwilling to question the way you communicate with others and are satisfied to settle with a privat corp like Meta or X, you might want to rethink your standards and media competence judgement. Or not - and stay a product in a stable.

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