I am finding it DELICIOUS to meet new (and old) friends over at the Blue Sky app the past few weeks.
I have tried all of the alt social media platforms which have come down the pike since Musk used his outsized pocketbook and bought up my favorite short-form interactive site. Mastodon, Threads, Tribel Social, Post News. None of them came close to giving me the feeling of “coming home” that I’ve found at Blue Sky.
Of course, there is likely a good reason for that.
Jack Dorsey, the fellow who co-founded Twitter back in the day? He was involved in the set up of Blue Sky but is no longer associated with it. So perhaps he helped shape Blue Sky and it’s format.
But today?
https://accessipos.com/bluesky-stock-ipo
Bluesky is a privately owned public benefit C Corporation. CEO Jay Garber and a team of employees and Board members are the primary company owners. However, Bluesky has issued equity to venture capital investors as it raised funds to fuel its surging late-2024 growth.
Garber has called Bluesky “billionaire proof”, as the platform’s foundational technology allows users to exit and takes followers with them, discouraging the kind of takeover Elon Musk executed at Twitter.
On a podcast in December 2024, Jules Terpak asked Mark Cuban if he was an investor in Bluesky. His reply: “Not yet, but I’m working on it”.
So I feel pretty safe landing at Blue Sky.
I know that a lot of people have written stories about the platform (now nearly five years old since inception), and urged people to finally leave Twitter for good.
But someone finally gave me a good enough reason to do it.
Malcolm Nance, on his Substack posted this story:
https://malcolmnance.substack.com/p/forming-the-new-american-resistance
In which, he announced the first step for the New American Resistance:
P-Day: January 20, 2025. The National Day of Resistance
FAFO #1 - Participate in the National Inauguration Blackout
The FA: Do not watch any inauguration or news media events for 100 hours. Read a book. Participate in a hobby. Enjoy time with family. Do ANYTHING except watch cable news or read any online or print news about the inauguration. This includes social media. Take that week back for yourself. Read the Federalist papers or history books. When the weekend comes you can ease back into it and process the carnage with a clear head. Encourage all others in your family and social circle to just not participate with a tyrannical regime and its compliant news media that intends to do us all harm.
The FO: We will financially impact the news media for a period of time they want all eyes on the inauguration. This will in turn show them that their advertising bottom line can be damaged and that complying has consequences. It will show the Trump regime that not only are we NOT watching but that when we do focus our attention it will be laser-like and grassroots. It will give good politicians something to hold onto and bad ones a warning that they could find that FAFO can be brought to bear against them also.
How Long: 100 hours
Start: 08:00 ET Monday, January 20, 2025
End: 08:00 ET Saturday, January 25, 2025.
I love that Nance wants us to take up the FAFO (Fuck Around and Find Out) form of resistance. Because our power lies in our use of our time and money, and not by donating money endlessly to those in search of a political seat in a legislature of the U.S. Congress; but in HOW and WHEN we spend our collective billions of dollars!
In a sort of Flash Mob fashion.
For me, Blue Sky offers the best platform to promote and plan and roll out the New American Resistence based on the FAFO method.
So please, if you are already at Blue Sky?
Drop a comment and add your PROFILE page link.
To get there on Blue Sky, just click on your ID Icon.
This is mine: https://bsky.app/profile/angelakmarx.bsky.social
Tomorrow, I’ll collect all of the links from you all and move them into the body of the story, or write a new one with all of them.
I will show them with your DK name and then your link to your Blue Sky profile page.
So people will be able to compare the two and see who you are here and there.
Who is with Malcolm Nance and ready to take your first steps on the path to Resistance on Inaugeration Day 2025?