It used to, now it's got a load of ads and heavy prioritization of accounts that pay money to use it. It's also locked down on technologies like the API that us

It used to, now it's got a load of ads and heavy prioritization of accounts that pay money to use it. It's also locked down on technologies like the API that used to make it interesting. All social networking sites seem inevitable till they fail, remember digg? Bluesky and threads are building interesting sets of communities, and with the number of active users they have now, it's likely that they'll stay there. There are 15k+ starter packs on the directory now https://blueskydirectory.com/starter-packs https://blueskydirectory.com/starter-packs and just a quick scroll through them shows the diversity of groups using the platform. Bluesky appears (for now at least) more open to API driven interaction and doesn't default to an algorithmic view, avoiding some of the more annoying things on twitter. Now as they grow there will be inevitable problems with scammers/spammers and the rest but all popular sites that allow user generated content have to deal with that eventually.