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all social media platforms with significant financing behind them enshitify and bluesky is already there despite their promises to the contrary:
The site is named after a fascist flag, so not surprising
Blue... Sky? What?
According to CNET, the actual reason for the name is:
The only thing I can think of is the Ukraine flag
, which I believe represents a field of wheat under a blue sky, such as in this image from Kherson Oblast:
It seems like a stretch to me that the site is named after the Ukrainian flag specifically. The symbolism of blue skies is much more universal than that.
I agree, I'm not convinced the Ukrainian flag has anything to do with it either unless Dorsey said something beyond this that I wasn't aware of.
It's the only thing that I could think of that @SkingradGuard@hexbear.net might have meant.
This makes more sense. Thank you for clarifying
Blue ~~Curtains~~ Sky Theory
iirc named after the RoC blue sky and sun flag, glorification of the KMT.
Let me know if you manage to find a source that confirms this, would be interesting to know