A Prayer for The Dying: Bluesky Sticks the Landing Via Personalized Moderation

And watches its user-base explode, while X withers on the vine.

Being harassed online can have a negative impact on our mental health. It's certainly been unpleasant for me! I wrote an article a little while back about a jokey use case for the Apple Vision Pro, which was just to edit out the people you didn't want to see from your field of vision. The real-world version of this is Bluesky Social.

The metamorphosis of the deeply flawed Twitter into the more deeply flawed X has been a real bummer for people who found that sort of social media helpful in their lives. Some people used Twitter—I speak specifically about doctors and colleagues for professional and polite back and forth. We wanted to debate NEJM biomedical science articles! You can probably find the subgenre for you as well, filled with those who wish to debate about the things that matter to you.

On Twitter, this was #MedTwitter for doctors. We want to communicate, we want to educate our colleagues, we want to share ideas, we wanted debate back and forth, and we don't want to be …