Yesterday I opened an account on bluesky (@Irenelozano.bsky.social). I started with two generous followers and felt the lightness of letting go. I don’t feel like I’m abandoning Twitter, but rather that Twitter abandoned me a long time ago, like all of us who believe in the need for interesting, rational, and constructive public conversation. I haven’t completely stopped it yet: a few days ago they charged me the monthly bill. This will be the last and during this month I will still try to convince those of you who read me to also switch to bluesky.
A few months ago, I wrote here that the American elections would be a turning point to reassess whether to continue using this social network or leave it. The result clearly showed that Elon Musk has turned it into a toxic pit: he spreads disinformation to stimulate racism, extremism and hatred. At the same time, it hides or eludes the climate emergency and the problems of inequality in the world, including those of women. He does all this to defend his selfish interests. Two very relevant media, Tutor And The avant-gardedecided to stop posting on Twitter over the past two days, with similar arguments.
