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If You Loved Twitter, Come Fly the Friendly BlueSky

We have Mark Hamill and Levar Burton

Mary DeVries
Counter Arts
6 min readNov 21, 2024

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screenshot of post from Blue Sky of LeVar Burton. blue background with Levar and a rainbow around him
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I miss the way it[Twitter] was so badly. I can literally cry from how happy I was there before. — Bev Potter

Social media should occasionally delight, inform, inspire, entertain, and connect. Not every post of course, but a pay out often enough to keep feeding pennies into the slot machine. What you don’t want is to end up wasted, bankrupt, and needing a shower to get rid of the grime.

Is Bluesky worth the gamble? Maybe you poured years of your life into a dead end relationship but your X is still jerking you around. Can you trust again?

I can’t promise Bluesky will never break your heart. Relationships always come with risk. But I can tell you, Bluesky feels fun right now, a bright spark in a dim world and I’m enjoying the trip.

With any potential relationship you want to look for both red and green flags. I‘ve been on Bluesky for almost a year now so let me walk you through some of the ways I’ve learned to enjoy and create a connection worth my time.

Block early, block often

When I joined Bluesky it had about half a million users. When X turned its block feature into a bandaid more likely to infect a gushing wound than staunch…

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Mary DeVries
Mary DeVries

Written by Mary DeVries

I delight, despair and write about a life lived around the world. Fueled by Yorkshire Gold tea.

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