Why users are moving to Bluesky from X (with Bluesky COO Rose Wang) | Rapid Response
About Rose
- COO of Bluesky, led platform through 24M user surge with a 20-person team (2024)
- Forbes 30 Under 30 Social Entrepreneur and Echoing Green Fellow
- CEO/co-founder of Chirps, pioneering cricket protein food company
- Former Head of Customer Experience at AI platform Forethought
- ELLE USA Impact Award winner and TEDx speaker
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Millions of users have joined social media platform Bluesky in recent weeks, as an alternative to Elon Musk’s X. It’s sparking new opportunities and challenges for Bluesky’s tiny 20-person team, and COO Rose Wang joins Rapid Response to discuss a major shift underway in social media. As dissatisfaction with the big platforms grows, she explains why the open network of Bluesky isn’t just X by another name, nor a liberal refuge, but instead part of a new decentralized social web that prioritizes closer personal connections, data privacy, and democratization.
Chapters
00:00 Introducing Rose Wang & Bluesky
00:53 Inside the surge in users that Bluesky is experiencing
05:20 Why Bluesky is not just a Twitter alternative
08:15 How Bluesky avoids forcing users into echo chambers
12:30 The future of Bluesky
15:01 Fostering positivity over growth
17:21 Bluesky’s innovative approach to content moderation
19:35 Where Bluesky stands on Australia’s social media ban
21:46 Exploring alternative business models
23:20 The role of user data in AI training
25:50 The prioritization needed to guide Bluesky through this phase
27:36 How Bluesky believes they will grow
