🎵 Bluesky, smiling at me 🎵

Author Elisha Dacey
Ahhhhh, the peace, the serenity, the lack of Musk. (Canva)

My microblogging heart is full again.

Over the past few weeks, users have abandoned Twitter—er, X, whatever—in droves for the “new” microblogging social media site Bluesky. By the millions. It’s been dubbed the Great X-odous and I’ll admit, it makes me grin.

Twitter used to be my favourite social media site. If you followed the right people, news broke there faster than in any other medium—radio, TV, or online media. I spent a long time curating the list of people I followed to find other folks who were smart, engaged, and liked to have calm, rational debates. There were lots of us on all sides of the political spectrum, and it was great.

I made friends IRL, so to speak.

Then Elon came. I won’t go into detail on how he wrecked it, but as it became more violent there, I stopped posting, as did many others. Threads and LinkedIn served as poor substitutes.

Then, in what I like to think is the first small act of American rebellion, after the U.S. presidential election progressive folks threw their typing hands up in disgust just as Bluesky opened its doors to allow anyone to sign up without an invite.

Bluesky looks an awful lot like Twitter. (X. Whatever.) But it has this wonderful feature called Starter Packs—a list of curated people to follow, put together by people you already follow, and it allows you to follow all the people in that Pack at once.

Its content moderation team is also excellent—hateful trolls are quickly eliminated instead of being promoted.

Until two weeks ago, I had about 150 followers on Bluesky. I now have several thousand, thanks to being included in various starter packs.

And while there appear to be Starter Packs for US non-profit groups, I haven’t found one for Canadian non-profit groups and the people who fund them. So we’ve started one.

Are you or your organization on Bluesky? Follow us, and ask to be included in our starter pack!

Photo: Ahhhhh, the peace, the serenity, the lack of Musk. (Canva)

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  • Elisha Dacey is a seasoned journalist with more than two decades of experience in the field. She has worked in various newsrooms across Canada, ranging from small-town papers to major outlets like CBC Manitoba and Global News. Dacey began her journalism career in Manitoba and has held roles such as managing editor, senior producer and digital online journalist. Notably, she launched Metro Winnipeg, the city’s only free daily newspaper, which quickly became the second most-read paper in Winnipeg.

    Elisha Dacey is the Managing Editor for Future of Good.

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