This is a report (168 pages) from mid-June, prior to the recent Bluesky surge. News media was facing "layoffs, closures, and other cuts due to a combination of rising costs, falling advertising revenues, and sharp declines in traffic from social media." But in the last few months, as Ed Zitron reports, "Bluesky sends real traffic. Will update this tomorrow with firm numbers but journalism is going to move here for sure. Twitter is a drop in the bucket. It's over, but we are so back, and so on and so forth." There's no guarantee that Bluesky will continue to connect people to people, but it's a far sight better than the current social media ecosystem that connects people to propaganda. Via Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò.
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