Bluesky set out to fix social media. Now it’s running into familiar problems

# Bluesky's Growing Pains Bluesky, a Twitter alternative that gained millions of users by promising a kinder, less toxic social experience, is now losing users and struggling to survive as a business. The platform attracted people fleeing X/Twitter, but it's developing the same problems it set out to solve—including becoming an echo chamber where certain viewpoints dominate, which is actually pushing some users away. The lesson: having good intentions at launch doesn't automatically solve the hard problems of building a social network that works for everyone long-term.