The rise of Bluesky, a not-so-Seattle-based social media company

Bluesky’s neighborhood-focused feel may therefore be familiar to Seattleites, Wang continued. “I think the culture of Bluesky in some ways looks like the culture of Seattle,” she said. “Place does affect the way we think about building an online community … choosing where we spend our time, where we’re learning from, how these local municipalities work, I do think absolutely affect the way we think about Bluesky.” 

As local historian Roger Sale noted in his book Seattle, Past to Present, if cities are like trees, then Seattle is like a rhododendron, not a towering maple or oak; such sprawl and alterity may apply to Bluesky, too. Its 20 employees borrow

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