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by danielovichdk 601 days ago
What is bluesky?
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appears to be a twitter clone. On the front page most posts I see are either pictures of manga art or cats.
Jack Dorsey left twitter and made bluesky
twitter 2.0
I had to ask ChatGPT the same thing.

"Bluesky is a decentralized social network platform that was originally incubated by Twitter and later spun out as an independent company. Its main goal is to create a more open and flexible social media ecosystem by using a decentralized protocol, called the Authenticated Transfer Protocol (AT Protocol). This protocol is designed to allow users more control over their data and enable interoperability across different social media apps that implement the protocol."

I mean, I think Googling would have given you a more useful answer. The magic robot has chosen to concentrate on how it _works_, without really saying what it _is_ (a kinda-decentralised Twitter clone, without the most objectionable component of Twitter).

For that matter, the first paragraph of the Wikipedia article is also far more helpful than what the robot gave you. Of all the weird uses of LLMs, "what is [thing which has a wikipedia page]" is perhaps the most pointless.