Bluesky is the latest (& arguably greatest) pretender to the vacant throne once held held by Twitter; it appears to be achieving critical mass with close to 17 million accounts signed up as I am writing this. By the time you read this it may well have passed that number! I have been kicking the tyres for the past year and it has rapidly become my favourite of the newer short form social media sites.
Less niche than Mastodon and more usable than Threads, if I were a betting man I would put money on Bluesky becoming the preeminent social site among social sites. Bluesky is rapidly achieving feature parity with Twitter, from sharing short videos, images and links to direct messages, hashtags, lists and more. Possibly the thing that makes it greater that Twitter ever was are the baked in anti-toxicity features, developed to help prevent bullying, piling on and worse.
You can find me here most days: mattlibrarian.bsky.social
Rather than rehashing what has gone before, I would recommend anyone interested in using Bluesky to check out author & illustrator Debbi Ridpath Oni‘s Unofficial Guide to Using Bluesky, it is one of the best of (many) the user guides out there, and one that I dipped into a number of times in my early days on Bluesky.
Library Bluesky has been growing at an exponential rate and many of my friends, colleagues and library collaborators have already signed up and I am discovering new (to me) library related folk every day, as well as authors, illustrators, publishers and book bloggers as well. There are a number of feeds, starter packs and lists that created specifically for library folk and those interested in the library world.
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