Bluesky signups up 60%
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The current SkyFeed infrastructure can't handle the extra load (more than 4x) caused by all the new users. I'm currently setting up two new powerful servers, which should have enough resources to get all feeds back online later today. Thanks for your patience and sorry for the downtime 😊
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SkyFeed is a third-party client built by redsolver. Users can create a dashboard out of their feeds, profiles, and more. Additionally, while custom feeds currently take some developer familiarity to build from scratch, SkyFeed allows Bluesky users to easily build their own custom feeds based off...
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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.www.theverge.com
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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TWO MILLION new people in the last week! a very warm welcome! 🤗 DOIS MILHÕES de pessoas novas na última semana! uma calorosa recepção a todos! 🤗
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TWO MILLION new people in the last week! a very warm welcome!
DOIS MILHÕES de pessoas novas na última semana! uma calorosa recepção a todos!
Sep 2, 2024 at 3:24 PM
Bluesky flourishes as Brazil bans X - Hypertext
Former X users from Brazil have joined the next best thing in Bluesky and doing so in their millions and millions.
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Bluesky flourishes as Brazil bans X
- Millions of former X users have signed up for Bluesky as the platform was banned in Brazil.
- Over 2 million Brazilian users jumped to the Twitter-like platform in the last few days alone.
- X was banned in Brazil after its owner failed to upheld orders from the Brazilian Supreme Court.
In the past few days alone, social media platform and Twitter-like Bluesky says that it added 2.6 million users with 85 percent of the new users hailing from Brazil. This makes perfect sense since just days ago, Brazil banned X, the former Twitter, from the country after getting into a heated scuffle with owner Elon Musk.
Over two million Brazilian users flocked to Bluesky after the X ban, Engadget reports. For a company that only has around nine million users, the spike is enormous and a major loss to Musk’s platform. The amount of Brazilian users coming to the site was so pronounced that the company wrote a blog post in Portuguese.
“What a week! In the last few days more than 2.6 million users have registered on our platform, and more than 85 percent of those are Brazilian. You are very welcome and we are very happy you are with us,” they wrote.
X has become completely inaccessible in Brazil after a Supreme Court order blocked internet access to the website on the app and on desktop. The courts went as far as to impose huge fines on those found to be using VPNs to access the website, even though the point of VPNs is that they are untraceable, so good luck to whoever has the job of tracing rogue Brazilian X users.
The ban is being led by Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes, who has taken X to task over the last few months on the platform allegedly allowing spreaders of fake news and hate speech on the platform to continue influencing Brazilian users.
De Moraes called X to ban these users and despite saying it would, X did not follow through with the request. The final straw saw, allegedly, X employees in Brazil attempt to dodge the Supreme Court Justice only to incur hefty penalties, which then led to the ban of the platform.
Now banned, Brazilian users simply moved on to the next most Twitter-shaped thing, Bluesky, which is steadily growing after hitting a million users in September 2023.
This also not the first time decisions made by Musk, as well as posts by the owner himself, have driven users en masse away from his platform to Bluesky. In August, Bluesky said it saw a 60 percent increase in sign-ups from users in the United Kingdom.
This was during the violent riots in the country, spurred almost entirely by fake news spreading on social media, with UK lawmakers blaming Musk’s increasingly conservative viewpoints and posts for egging on rioters and spreading even more misinformation.
Bluesky grows to 9M+ users | TechCrunch
Bluesky keeps growing: The company announced that as of Friday morning, it had added 3 million new users, bringing its total user count to more than 9
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Bluesky grows to 9M+ users
Anthony Ha
1:22 PM PDT • September 7, 2024
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Bluesky keeps growing: The company announced that as of Friday morning, it had added 3 million new users, bringing its total user count to more than 9 million.
In other words, the social platform’s user base has grown by around 50 percent in the week or so since a Brazilian court banned X (formerly Twitter). The ban sent Bluesky to the top of the free iPhone app charts in Brazil, where it’s currently ranked number two, behind Meta’s competing app Threads.
In addition to sharing the latest user numbers, Bluesky also assured users old and new that video support is “coming soon.”
The platform started as a Twitter-backed initiative to create an open social protocol, but has since become an independent, venture-backed startup and fully opened to the public in February.
In an earlier post about growth, Bluesky said that 85% of its new users are Brazilian. Bringing on so many new users so quickly has led to occasional technical issues.
Bluesky catches up to X with native support for video | TechCrunch
With native video support, Bluesky will be able to better compete with other X rivals, including Instagram Threads and the decentralized service Mastodon, among others.
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Bluesky catches up to X with native support for video
Sarah Perez
10:47 AM PDT • September 11, 2024
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Bluesky,the social networking startup now nearing 10 million users thanks to X’s ban in Brazil, will now allow users to share videos of up to 60 seconds in length on its platform, the company announced on Wednesday.
Designed as a decentralized version of X (formerly Twitter), Bluesky allows users to post text and images, reply and repost, and message users. However, unlike X, Bluesky lets users set up their own servers if they choose, pick their own algorithm, and decide how much or little they want their content moderated by subscribing to independent moderation services.
With native video support, the network will be able to better compete with other X rivals, including Instagram Threads and the decentralized service Mastodon, among others.
The company notes that videos will autoplay by default, but this can be turned off in the settings.
Each post on Bluesky can contain one video, which can also include attached subtitles. Users will be limited to uploading 25 videos or 10GB of video per day as the feature first launches, though these limits may be adjusted over time, Bluesky says.
While the company will require users to verify their emails to cut down on video spam, it will allow adult content. Users will be able to label their videos that have adult content, however, so those who don’t want to see this can filter them out of their timeline using moderation controls. Bluesky says it’s processing videos via Hive and Thorn to ensure videos that require a content warning are addressed and to make sure illegal material like CSAM (child sexual abuse material) does not get posted.
Videos can also be reported for violating community guidelines, which could affect the user’s ability to continue to upload video, the company warns, if the violations are repeated. When a post with a video is deleted, the data will also be entirely purged from Bluesky’s infrastructure, the company notes.
The feature’s launch may have come a day too late to capitalize on some of the more shareable (or wild!) moments from last night’s U.S. presidential debate, but video support has the potential to make Bluesky a more engaging place to discuss breaking news, politics, pop culture, sports, and more, the company thinks.
Video follows a number of updates to Bluesky’s app, which last year included an in-app video and music player that supported third-party content, like YouTube, Soundcloud, Spotify and Twitch embeds. This year, the company played further catch-up with X with the launch of DMs (direct messages), a more personalized Discover feed, tools to hide replies, and more. Last month, Bluesky also said it was considering launching something similar to X’s crowdsourced fact-checking feature, Community Notes, as well.
Support for video uploads will be made available randomly to users in increments until fully rolled out, to ensure the servers can handle the influx of new content, the company says
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Bluesky now has video! Update your app to version 1.91 or refresh on desktop! We’ve begun gradually rolling out the ability to post video. Thanks for your patience! Estamos gradualmente implementando a capacidade de postar vídeos. Obrigado pela sua paciência!
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So how long twitter got left after this election is over?
