Bluesky, the X rival boosted by EU’s tech enforcer – 3 questions answered
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Since Elon Musk hollowed out Twitter's staffing, pushed services behind a paywall and renamed it X, many users have been thrashing around for an alternative social media platform.So far none has emerged as a clear winner, but EU commissioner Thierry Breton, alarmed at the disinformation on X, has just made a very public choice to switch to Bluesky -- one of the lesser-known X rivals. What is Bluesky?. The platform was created by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey as a side project in 2019.Dorsey put five engineers aside to build a decentralised alternative to Twitter.He said at the time that centralised attempts to police abuse and misinformation on a platform like Twitter were unlikely to work, and wanted to give users more control of personal data and content moderation.But Bluesky...