Gil Duran tweet: TLDR: Fascism in response to Palantir's long fascists screed on X.

"Your Account is Suspended" Message on X

The CEO of Palantir posted a fascist manifesto on X.

I pointed out that it was fascist—which resulted in a permanent suspension from X (my second time!).

So, when you hear the tweeters complaining that BlueSky is intolerant, remember why many of us came here in the first place.

X makes it 1,900 percent more expensive to post links For Techmeme, the price hike has forced a major change.

It now costs $0.20 when a link is posted, up from $0.01.

‘I’m playing the long game’: Journalists are striking out alone and discovering the business is toughest beat of all News Creators have become preferred sources for younger viewers, but how do they grow and sustain their independent endeavors?

"Her free subscriber count went from 1,000 to 150,000 after she shifted from breaking news toward commentary." digiday.com/media/im-pla...

These are the Twitter/X accounts with the most engagement so far in 2026. I suppose I had some intuition for how bad it was, but jeez, this is what you get when the ecosystem is broken.

But Bluesky is an echo chamber

Yeah, I'm not relocating again. If this place goes belly up, I'm gone.

Embracing alternative tech is an act of resistance. You can use the same old platforms that enrich the same old people - or you can choose something new that seeks to empower everyone instead of concentrating wealth and influence in a few billionaires. It’s time to make the switch.

Opposing ICE Might Save the Country. It Could Also Ruin Your Life For months, lone vibe coder Rafael Concepcion has obsessively built tools to counter the federal immigration crackdown—pivoting as he’s been outmatched. He’s also lost his job and become a target.

Love to see people using vibe coding tech to build tools to fight back against the government.

For months, lone vibe coder Rafael Concepcion has obsessively built tools to counter the federal immigration crackdown—pivoting as he’s been outmatched.

Okay so here’s my actual Bluesky-is-dying hypothesis:

The entire web is dying. Users aren’t going from BlueSky to another site (x/insta/threada/tiktok). Users are going to chatbots.

I know traffic to news sites has cratered (like 90%). My hunch is traffic to all the social platforms is down too.

Is Bluesky dying? An attempt to untangle a few different arguments around the future of Bluesky – if it has one

Is Bluesky dying? A more thorough look at the numbers. open.substack.com/pub/techtris...

Obviously the often-shitty culture here is only one part of the problem. Content discovery is hard for new users (most users like algorithms in practice, it turns out). Bluesky has niche interests. Text social media isn't growing, so it's about whether you can steal X/Threads users.

Unique daily likers as a graph over the last year. It's down from about 1.6 million a day a year ago to 1.1 million a day now.

I tend to get dogpiled every time I say this but: as someone *who likes bluesky and benefits from being here* we have a problem.

The network is shrinking, not growing. It's shrinking a lot: only about 1.1m people a day even like a post. This time last year it was 1.6m.

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Bluesky leans into AI with Attie, an app for building custom feeds | TechCrunch Bluesky’s new app Attie uses AI to help people build custom feeds the open social networking protocol atproto.

Bluesky’s new app Attie uses AI to help people build custom feeds the open social networking protocol atproto.

He Built the Definitive Epstein Database—and It Consumed His Life The data engineer started as a casual reader of the Jeffrey Epstein files. Then he became obsessed, and built the most extensive network graph of the sexual predator’s shadowy world.

In February, a user named EricKeller2 posted on Reddit. “I mapped every connection in the Epstein files,” he wrote. He had built a website and database of more than 1.5 million files related to the Jeffrey Epstein case. www.wired.com/story/he-bui...

Following the Followers – and Leaders – on Twitter is All About Triangulation

Everything (and more!) that @sreenet.bsky.social
wrote about Twiangulate.com in 2010 maps to Skyangles today! In short, "if social media is all about 'listening' to interesting people, then Twiangulate can tell me who the people I listen to are, in turn, listening to."

We've been mapping some of our Twiangulate concepts over to Bluesky.