Bluesky signups up 60%
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Elim Garak
Veteran
Has it gotten better. I tried to use it and hated the interface a few years ago.
I think given the current climate, it warrants a second attempt
whats the difference? and do they have sexy women on there?
, wasn't jack selling it as some smart dumb shyt
Bluesky eyes politicians after ‘quite the influx’ of UK accounts
Chiefs at social media site Bluesky have suggested they are eyeing politicians for their platform after X owner Elon Musk’s commentary on UK current affairs.
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Bluesky: Social media site eyes politicians after ‘quite the influx’ of UK accounts
By: City A.M. Reporter
Bluesky spun out of Twitter, now known as X, after its chief executive Jack Dorsey announced in 2019 the giant would fund developers to create an “open and decentralised standard for social media”.
Chiefs at social media site Bluesky have suggested they are eyeing politicians for their platform after X owner Elon Musk’s commentary on UK current affairs.
A spokesperson for the fledgling company said they had seen “quite the influx of UK accounts over the last two weeks, including many members of parliament”.
Safeguarding minister Jess Phillips, Liberal Democrat technology spokeswoman Layla Moran and Mother of the House Diane Abbott are among its users.
In an exchange with Labour backbencher Antonia Bance (Tipton and Wednesbury) about verification, Bluesky’s head of trust and safety Aaron Rodericks wrote on the website: “We are checking through higher profile MPs and journalists to ensure that there aren’t any impersonators due to the influx of UK accounts.”
He suggested website developers could reserve a phrase, such as “parliament.uk”, which only MPs could use in their usernames or handles.
“Will try to engage with the parliamentary team to support,” Rodericks wrote.
Bluesky spun out of Twitter, now known as X, after its chief executive Jack Dorsey announced in 2019 the giant would fund developers to create an “open and decentralised standard for social media”.
Tesla chief Musk bought Twitter in 2022 and got rid of the blue check verification mark, replacing it with paid-for blue and gold tick icons for individuals and businesses, and grey tick icons for government-linked accounts.
Keir Starmer has refused to be drawn into a spat with the world’s richest man, who used the hashtag #TwoTierKeir, a reference to allegations the authorities have treated some protesters in the UK more harshly than others, promoted false claims that the Prime Minister had considered setting up detainment camps in the Falkland Islands to imprison rioters, and suggested “civil war is inevitable”.
A Number 10 spokeswoman said last week: “I’m not proposing to get into back-and-forth on individual comments.”
Musk also described Scotland’s former first minister Humza Yousaf as “super, super racist” on X, after Yousaf, speaking on CNN, branded him “one of the most dangerous men”.
Yousaf’s lawyer Aamer Anwar told the Sunday Mail at the time that Musk had “effectively painted a target on Humza Yousaf’s back with his completely unacceptable, untrue and inflammatory comments”.
Asked about verification on the platform, a Bluesky spokesperson told the PA news agency: “Verification is two-fold currently.
“The way for organisations and individuals to self-verify is by setting their username to their website.
“For example, The New York Times uses @nytimes.com on Bluesky, and US Senator Ron Wyden uses @wyden.senate.gov.
“The ‘senate.gov’ domain in his username indicates that his account is legitimate.
“Additionally, for accounts that haven’t set their website as their username, Bluesky’s trust and safety team reviews those accounts for legitimacy.”
The spokesperson said 37,000 UK users had signed up to the platform in the fortnight to Wednesday August 21.
They added that UK users had made 766 posts, 2.97 million “likes” and 1.8 million “follows”.
“So many people use social media to keep up with the news, so we definitely want to encourage politicians, journalists, and more to join Bluesky,” they added.
Phillips’ first post to the platform last Sunday read: “Let’s try not to mess this up.”
The Labour minister said she “would choose (her) words more carefully” after she was accused of defending hooded and masked men who were filmed approaching reporters in her Birmingham Yardley constituency.
“These people came to this location because it has been spread that racists were coming to attack them,” she wrote on X.
Conservative shadow security minister Tom Tugendhat responded: “When Jess Phillips sought to justify the militia, vigilantism and violence, to excuse a militia on our streets, Keir Starmer should have sacked her, because ministers must always defend the principle of equality before the law.”
In her second Bluesky post, Phillips wrote: “So far my feed feels like early Twitter. Hooray. My mentions feel like Twitter 2016/17.”
Moran has written only “hello world” followed by a smiley, while Cameron Thomas, the Liberal Democrat MP for Tewkesbury, posted his own name on October 20 last year, before he was elected.
Labour MP for Buckingham and Bletchley Callum Anderson wrote on Thursday: “Hello Bluesky. Looking forward to exploring (yet) another social media community.”
South Belfast and Mid Down MP Claire Hanna, of the Social Democratic and Labour Party, made her second post to the website on Wednesday, more than 10 months after her first post which read: “You’re probably wondering why I’ve gathered you all here this afternoon.”
AStrangeName
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The women are there, but they don't just pop up on your timeline at random, you have to add a feed to see them.
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Bluesky adds ‘anti-toxicity’ options to limit dogpiling and hostile quote posts
Users can also now hide replies and block list creators.
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Bluesky adds ‘anti-toxicity’ options to limit dogpiling and hostile quote posts
The app’s 1.90 update introduces new features to help users avoid online harassment.
By Jess Weatherbed, a news writer focused on creative industries, computing, and internet culture. Jess started her career at TechRadar, covering news and hardware reviews.
Aug 29, 2024, 12:43 PM EDT
:format(webp)/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25594515/Bluesky_remove_original_post_quotes.jpg "An example screenshot showing Bluesky’s new tool for detatching original posts from quoted reblogs.")
If a post is being shared as part of a dogpiling effort, Bluesky users can now limit people from linking to them directly. Image: Bluesky
Bluesky has introduced a bunch of new “anti-toxicity” features that aim to help users protect themselves against harassment and dogpiling. Announced via a recent blog post, version 1.90 of the decentralized social media platform adds tools that can limit exposure to unwelcome interactions with other users, such as an option to detach your post from somebody else’s quote of it.
The update allows users to view all the posts that quote a post they’ve made, then detach their original post so it can no longer be seen beneath the other user’s commentary — preventing readers from seeing it and clicking through to engage. You can already cut off engagement by blocking a quote poster, but detachment offers a less drastic option.
The downside, as Bluesky notes, is that this update lets users who spread dis- or misinformation detach their posts from quote posts that correct it. “To address this, we’re leaning into labeling services and hoping to integrate a Community Notes-like feature in the future,” the company said in the blog. For now, it’s a tradeoff that could mitigate one of the more unpleasant aspects of posting your opinions online.
Version 1.90 of the Bluesky app also allows users to hide replies to their posts and move them behind a dedicated “Hidden Replies” screen, where they can be revisited with less visibility. (Reply hiding has been available on X, formerly Twitter, for years.) Bluesky is also stepping back from promoting every single reply to the “Following” feed; it will now only show conversations that include replies between at least two followers.
:format(webp)/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25594510/Bluesky_hide_replies.jpg "A screengrab of Bluesky’s new hide reply feature.")
Someone chatting some nasty nonsense? Boom — post replies can now be hidden. Image: Bluesky
Thanks to Bluesky’s design, quote post removals and hidden replies are public data, akin to blocking other users. Bluesky says its app won’t list all the quote detachments on the original post, but that data will still be accessible via the Bluesky API.
Additional changes include a new priority filter that lets users only receive notification updates from people they follow, as well as the ability to limit being featured in lists. When a user blocks someone who has created a starter pack or curational user list, they’ll also be filtered out of any of these lists, except for moderation lists that govern muting and blocking.
There’s a good selection of tools here to nope out of mobbing on the platform, but Bluesky says it isn’t done yet — additional changes are being made “to combat ban evasion, botnets, and other forms of toxicity.” The company is planning to share more details about those efforts next week.
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Brazil’s X ban is sending lots of people to Bluesky
“We’ve never seen traffic like this.”
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Brazil’s X ban is sending lots of people to Bluesky
Brazilian users seem to be turning to Bluesky in droves while they can’t use X.
By Jay Peters, a news editor who writes about technology, video games, and virtual worlds. He’s submitted several accepted emoji proposals to the Unicode Consortium.
Aug 30, 2024, 5:28 PM EDT
:format(webp)/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25269608/bluesky_media_kit_banner_4.png "A graphic of the Bluesky logo.")
Image: Bluesky
X is currently banned in Brazil following an order from a Supreme Court justice, and Brazilian users seem to be turning to Bluesky, an alternate social network, in droves.
“Brazil, you’re setting new all-time-highs for activity on Bluesky!” the official Bluesky account says in a post.
“There will almost certainly be some outages and performance issues,” Bluesky developer Paul Frazee says. “We’ve never seen traffic like this. Hang with us!”
Bluesky (@bsky.app)
Brazil, you're setting new all-time-highs for activity on Bluesky! 🥇 Brasil, você está estabelecendo novos recordes de atividade no Bluesky! 🥇
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The Bluesky app looks and functions a lot like X, but it’s a decentralized social media platform that’s built on the AT Protocol (which is also developed by Bluesky). In a 5:12PM ET post, Frazee says that Bluesky is seeing 1,000 events per second — a “new milestone” — on its “relay,” which essentially functions as the firehose of data for the platform.
Mastodon (another decentralized platform) and Meta (the corporation that runs Threads, which has links to the fediverse) didn’t immediately reply to a request for comment about whether they’re seeing increased usage as well.
Bluesky is finally adding video
Slowly but surely.
ByShannon Connellan on August 30, 2024
Credit: Bluesky logo / Mashable edit
Bluesky is finally about to add video.
The decentralised social media platform flagged the coming update on Friday in a post. Bluesky first announced it would be adding video in May, along with DMs.
Bluesky (@bsky.app)
Now might be a good time to announce that our next major app update will have video. 👀 More details soon!
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Bluesky didn't specify exactly when the video feature will roll out or what it will look like, promising "more details soon," but in May, the company said "it’s looking like the v1 of video integration on Bluesky will be 90-second clips that you can share on your posts."
Bluesky also announced some "anti-toxicity" features this week, including the ability to detach quote posts, hide replies, and the ability to filter your notifications to only receive updates from people you follow.
Earlier this year, Bluesky added a "stackable approach" for content moderation, which lets users essentially run their own independent moderation services.
In its most recent report, Bluesky says it's sitting at 5.8 million users, offering an alternative for users on competitor X (formerly Twitter). The platform, which was invite-only for its launch, already had 3 million sign-ups before opening up to everyone in February. Meta-owned competitor Threads said at the beginning of August it crossed the 200 million user mark.
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Bluesky tops app charts and sees 'all-time-highs' after Brazil bans X | TechCrunch
A Brazilian court's decision to ban X (formerly Twitter) seems to be benefiting its rivals, especially Bluesky. The microblogging platform announced late
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Bluesky tops app charts and sees ‘all-time-highs’ after Brazil bans X
Anthony Ha
2:10 PM PDT • August 31, 2024
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A Brazilian court’s decision to ban X (formerly Twitter) seems to be benefiting its rivals, especially Bluesky.
The microblogging platform announced late Friday that it was seeing “all-time-highs for activity” with 500,000 new users joining in the previous two days. It’s also number one on the free iPhone app chart in Brazil today, ranking just ahead of Meta’s Threads at number two.
Noting the rankings, Bluesky CEO Jay Graber wrote, “good job Brazil, you made the right choice.”
That growth is particularly impressive for a platform that only fully opened to the public in February and winkingly acknowledged its small size (especially compared to rivals X and Threads) by describing itself as “the short king of social apps.” The company says it had more than 6 million users as of May 2024.
Bluesky was first announced in 2019 as a Twitter-backed initiative to build an open, decentralized social protocol. It has since become an independent public benefit corporation, with Twitter founder Jack Dorsey leaving the board earlier this year.
Elon Musk’s X, meanwhile, has been engaged in an escalating legal fight with Brazil’s Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes over the company’s refusal to block certain accounts as part of a broader crackdown on what Moraes said is election disinformation.
X said earlier this month that it would shut down operations in Brazil, with Moraes then warning the company that it would be banned if it did not name a legal representative in the country. He followed through on Friday, and also threatened fines against users who try to circumvent the ban by using a VPN.
As the ban approached, Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva seemingly bid farewell to his X followers by linking to his other social media accounts — starting with Bluesky.
Mirin4rmfar
Superstar
I am going to make an account. I am getting spam way too much with right wing non sense on X.
