Bluesky: A Legitimate Contender to Replace X?

The recent buzz around the microblogging platform Bluesky—ironically founded by Twitter’s former creator, Jack Dorsey, who exited the venture last May—positions this social media platform as a legitimate competitor to X. After the lukewarm results of Mastodon, Threads, and other “decentralized” platforms with similar ambitions, one might wonder if this is another fleeting trend. We spoke with Francis Jette, a digital content creation consultant and Isarta trainer, to get his take.

How to Decode Web Culture

Between ever-changing TikTok trends, Twitter battles filled with self-referential hashtags, prank accounts, and irreverent memes, it can sometimes be hard to make sense of what we’ll conveniently call “web culture.” How can we understand this language that blurs the line between reality and fiction, satire and kindness, mockery and advocacy? Here are some key points and references.