A social media app that aims to be town square is different to a social networking app that aims to provide a smaller, safe community. The latter has a far easier time banning accounts from entities like ICE, because it can set a tighter set of community rules. So one lesson is perhaps that we need — or at least, many people need — a pluralistic... See more

Starting as a centralized platform, Twitter can take steps to open up APIs and provide choices to users, and this can be a path towards restoring trust in the current service. The premise of Bluesky, however, is to work towards a transparent and verifiable system from the bottom up by building a network that is open by default. 

The best part? As always, we build open technology rather than closed systems, so this new functionality isn't limited to Ghost.

You can find, follow and interact with people and publications across Ghost, WordPress, Threads, Mastodon, BlueSky, Flipboard, Tumblr (soon), and hundreds of other platforms that make up the open network known as The... See more