Bluesky is trying to become the next Twitter

Bluesky reached 15 million users this week. And then 16 million. The atmosphere on Bluesky is impeccable and it seems to have a real and renewed opportunity to be the place that will replace Twitter for many people. But there are also Threads, which have grown by about one Bluesky this month. There’s also Mastodon, which is still hanging around, and of course X. There are more options than ever and it’s more confusing than ever.

ON this episode Vergecastwe are trying to make sense of all this change. Will all this modern development and momentum assist Bluesky grow not only as an application, but also as a decentralized protocol? Does this pose a real threat to ActivityPub and the fediverse idea? Do we know yet what kind of social network it wants to be? And if you’re looking for a place to post, like, reply, and read, where should you go? We don’t have all the answers, but we have plenty of ideas.

(By the way: we recorded this episode on Wednesday, a little earlier than usual, and it’s all happening so brisk that several of our issues are out of date. Keep it coming to The Verge until everything changes!)

after that EdgeThe show’s Kylie Robison joins the show to assist us pilot a modern episode titled “Show and Tell.” (It shouldn’t be called that – please assist us change the name.) Each host tells a story they are currently involved in and explains it to the rest of us, and then we all talk about it. We show and talk about Apple’s latest shrewd home plans Slowing down the AI ​​modeland how is it possible that “Just Eat sold Grubhub to Wonder” is a true sentence.

If you want to learn more about everything we cover in this episode, here are some links to get you started, from Bluesky and Threads to social media:

And in the lightning round: