The Vergecast

Bluesky's quest to be the next Twitter

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Nilay and David talk about the future of social, in light of Bluesky's recent surge in growth. Threads is huge, Bluesky is ascendent, Mastodon is... around, but can any of them become the next Twitter? Is that even the goal? After that, Kylie Robison joins the show and the gang discusses Apple's smart home device (which is just an iPad), the AI scaling slowdown, and a new twist in the delivery wars. In the lightning round, it's all about disclosures, wireless carriers, and the sad end of Freevee.

Further reading:

  • Twitter’s succession: all the news about alternative social media platforms 
  • One million people have joined Bluesky in the past week.
  • Bluesky adds 700,000 new users in a week
  • The Guardian is quitting X.
  • Remember the TikTok ban?
  • Apple’s rumored six-inch ‘AI wall tablet’ could control your smart home by March 2025
  • Apple is reportedly working on an Apple Home security camera 
  • Anthropic co-founder Darius Amodei said we’ll have artificial general intelligence “in 2026 or 2027.”
  • Just Eat is selling Grubhub to Marc Lore’s Wonder for $650M
  • Boost Mobile says it’s a real wireless carrier now
  • Amazon is shutting down Freevee
  • Trump says Elon Musk will lead ‘DOGE’ office to cut ‘wasteful’ government spending


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