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Jay Peters
Elizabeth Lopatto
Jay Peters
“This is our biggest single-day jump in new users that we’ve experienced.”
Bluesky has had a banner day, and it’s doing an emergency upgrade to handle the influx of new users. I’m already worried how I’m going to handle the five minutes of downtime — I haven’t been able to stop refreshing the app all day.
Update April 27th, 5:56PM ET: Bluesky made it through the downtime and is now back.
Screenshot by Jay Peters / The Verge
Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Can Substack handle the wrath of Elon Musk and the pain of content moderation?
Nilay Patel
The app’s open-casket funeral, and reincarnation as a Mastodon app.
Rob Dubbin
CEO Eugen Rochko on running — and growing — a decentralized social network.
Nilay Patel
Barbara Krasnoff
Mitchell Clark
Barbara Krasnoff
Adi Robertson
Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter has left users wondering where to go should the platform go up in flames or its content moderation policies unravel. But is there really a viable alternative to Twitter yet?
Mitchell Clark and Emma Roth