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Twitter 2.0? Former CEO Jack Dorsey announces Beta testing for BlueSky..
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Bluesky signups surge in UK amid Musk's feud with government over riots
By Deborah Mary Sophia
August 13, 202410:08 AM EDTUpdated 9 hours ago
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Aug 13 (Reuters) - Social media platform Bluesky said it has seen a surge in signups in the United Kingdom in the recent days, a sign that Elon Musk's controversial comments on the nationwide riots were prompting people to look for alternatives to X.
Bluesky has seen a 60% jump in general activity from accounts in the UK, with several Members of Parliament also joining the platform recently, the company said in an emailed statement on Monday.
Musk has been accused of exacerbating tensions after days of far-right rioting in Britain triggered by online misinformation around the murder of three girls in northern England last month.
The Tesla CEO used his platform to share misleading information with his millions of followers, including one post suggesting civil war was "inevitable" in Britain, prompting a reaction from Prime Minister Keir Starmer and sparking calls for the government to roll out laws policing online content sooner.
"For 5 out of the last 7 days, the UK had the most Bluesky signups of any country," said Bluesky, a newer player in the social media space.
The South Africa-born billionaire, who became a U.S. citizen in 2002, has moved towards right-wing politics in the recent years and has publicly endorsed Donald Trump in the U.S. presidential race.
Bluesky is one in a long list of apps that have been looking to replace Twitter after Elon Musk's chaotic takeover of the company in late 2022.
In July, Bluesky's monthly active user base stood at about 688,568, a fraction of X's base of 76.9 million, according to data from Similarweb, a digital market intelligence company.
Facebook and Instagram parent Meta said it did not have an update on user growth for its Twitter rival, Threads, in the UK.
Mastodon, another smaller X competitor, did not respond to Reuters' requests for user growth details.
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.”
I hope it does well. I miss how reliable old Twitter was for breaking news and alerts.
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BlueSky the same name of the site I get my peptides and SARMS from 
Nah Jack gotta know somethin that’s ridiculous
Nah Jack gotta know somethin that’s ridiculous
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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.