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Bluesky confuses me as a business. It is made by a founder of Twitter. Twitter was not profitable for MANY YEARS before finally making a very small profit. So the business model itself seem suspect, and there's the question of why the creator of Twitter couldn't make it work, can make another stab at the same thing work.
Further, with the acquision and death spiral of Twitter post-Musk, why would users be interested/willing to sign up for *yet another service that did the same thing before by the guy that sold out once already.
None of it make sense to me.
People just want a Twitter replacement that's not owned by Musk and are willing to jump to the next best thing. I wish they'd go with Masto over Bluesky/Threads, but those have Brand Recognition.
Really doesn't feel like any of them are ready yet. I think Lemmy works really well because the tools you need for building communities are quite simple but Twitter-style social media is deceptively more daunting