Bluesky 'not a satire' - report

Bluesky, the social media platform widely assumed to be an elaborate satirical art project mocking liberal online culture, has reportedly been confirmed as real.

The outcome was revealed by a group of investigative journalists who had initially investigated the site out of a shared curiosity regarding who was behind it. Lead Researcher, Olivia Wilson, told the OMS:

"We thought the concept of BlueSky was genius, and were inspired to find out who was the comic genius behind it. We thought perhaps whoever invented QAnon had moved into parody social networking."

Mark Smith, a senior Executive at X (former Twitter) told the OMS:

"We loved BlueSky when it came out, and thought that 'Babylon Bee' or maybe 'The Onion' had developed it."

"It became a staff pastime to create fake profiles and see how long we could survive before we were banned for saying something outside the thoughts of a very select bubble of people. It was great, one lady in our marketing department lasted five days before she was rumbled for failing to adequately criticise JK Rowling".

"We are now informed that the site has been genuine all along, and that these people not only exist but occupy positions in academia, journalism and parts of the civil service."

After substantial research, the OMS were able to find some BlueSky users willing to speak publicly. Most insisted on anonymity for professional and social reasons, but were eager to point out there was nothing illegal about their activities.

However, one BlueSky user, Chris Kendall, an EU official who blogs under the name ottocr.at told the OMS:

"I adore BlueSky as I can very carefully curate a feed with the exact views which I want to read. Any other site will expose me to fascism, as will reading any traditional media sites or even going for a walk outside".

Another user, Niall O'Conghaille, who tweets under his real identity, told the OMS:

"The advantage of BlueSky is that there is no possibility of having my views challenged in the slightest. If someone provides an inconvenient fact or an alternative argument, no matter now gently or respectfully, I can just press the big block button and regain my peace of mind".

At the time of publication, BlueSky had issued a statement denying accusations of ideological conformity, before disabling replies.