Published on: 2025-04-19 11:15:59
Bluesky may soon get a new blue checkmark verification system, according to changes to the app’s public GitHub repository spotted Friday by reverse engineer alice.mosphere.at. The blue checks may have a similar look to the system pioneered by Twitter, now X, but Bluesky’s version seems like it will work quite differently. Bluesky’s blue check system may rely on multiple organizations to distribute blue checks, according to the codebase changes. That suggests Bluesky will actively verify notabl
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-24 19:00:00
Graze, a startup that lets people build and monetize custom feeds for Bluesky’s social network, has attracted new capital. Pre-seed investors, led by Betaworks and Salesforce Ventures, have invested $1 million in the company’s small team, which is working to give users control over their algorithms and social media experiences. Graze’s software, available via the web, offers tools to build, customize, publish, and manage Bluesky feeds. Unlike on other social networks like X or Meta’s Threads, w
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Adobe’s foray into the Twitter alternative Bluesky quickly backfired. Frustrated by the company’s business practices, users on the platform flooded its posts with backlash, ultimately prompting Adobe to delete all of its content. “Hey, we’re Adobe! We’re here to connect with the artists, designers, and storytellers who bring ideas to life,” read Adobe’s first post which has since been deleted. “What’s fueling your creativity right now?” It was an innocuous enough post that Adobe sent out on Tu
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Is the grass greener on the other side? We’re not sure, but the sky is most certainly bluer. It’s been over two years since Elon Musk purchased Twitter, now X, leading people to set up shop on alternative platforms. Mastodon, Post, Pebble (two of which have already shuttered operations) and Spill have been presented as potential replacements, but few aside from Meta’s Threads have achieved the speed of growth Bluesky has reached. As of February 2025, Bluesky has surpassed 30 million users. Its
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-03 11:45:42
Social network Bluesky is rolling out a new version of its software, which adopts some of the features former X users have missed. Nope, it’s not an edit button! Instead, the open social network is adding support for chat reactions in its direct messages feature and is revamping its search page as “Explore,” directing users to trends, suggested accounts, Starter Packs, and more. The features both take inspiration from X, which has let users react to direct messages with an emoji since 2020. X e
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It seems the only thing Bluesky hates more than Donald Trump is brands that promote artificial intelligence — and Adobe, the makers of Photoshop and Acrobat, had to find that out the hard way. Earlier this week, the Photoshop and Acrobat-maker posted an innocuous-enough introduction on its new account in an effort, like other brands have made, to find a new place to shill its AI-infused tech that doesn't explicitly promote Nazis. "Hey, we're Adobe!" the since-deleted post read. "We're here to
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Amy Brown was not screaming. She was not crying. She was not throwing up. But on Bluesky she said that she was doing all three, simultaneously. Brown’s husband visited a Walgreens while he was on a business trip in Ohio in February. He told her the prices were cheaper than in California, where they live. The price disparity led her to post that she was screaming, crying, and throwing up. Several Bluesky users responded to tell her she was exaggerating, and that nobody could possibly care that
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Jay Graber, the C.E.O. of the upstart social-media platform Bluesky, arrived in San Francisco the Sunday after Donald Trump’s reëlection and holed up in a hotel room. She’d spent the previous days road-tripping down the West Coast from her home, in Seattle, stopping at beaches and redwood groves along the way, and in San Francisco she’d hoped to remain half in vacation mode. But now Bluesky was seeing a surge in new users, and it was looking as if she’d need all hands on deck. “There was momentu
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Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has joined Bluesky, following in the footsteps of former president Barack Obama, who made his first post on the platform last week. Clinton confirmed her Bluesky account’s legitimacy in an Instagram story and a post on X. In her introductory post, Clinton wrote about the Wisconsin Supreme Court election taking place on Tuesday. The state judicial race is getting unprecedented attention on both sides of the aisle, since it determines the political bent o
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-22 23:00:00
A year ago, Bluesky was opening up to the public and was known as one of the many X competitors that emerged after Elon Musk acquired the network formerly known as Twitter. Today, Bluesky’s social network has grown to over 33 million users, while the technology it’s built upon — the AT Protocol (or ATProto for short) — is being used to develop dozens more applications designed to work together as part of an open social web. The developers behind many of these apps attended the first conference
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What's next for social media? 4 hours ago Share Save Shubham Agarwal Technology Reporter Share Save Jay Springett Jay Springett experimented with new social platforms Jay Springett, a tech strategist and podcast host, joined the social media app Butterflies AI out of curiosity, and ended up staying for more than six months. The idea of Butterflies is to allow human and AI personas to interact. Mr Springett's online persona developed over time, interacting with other artificial characters, and
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-28 23:11:16
It’s getting easier to build new applications on ATProto, the protocol that powers Bluesky’s social network and a growing number of other apps. At ATmosphere, the ATProto community conference held over the weekend in Seattle, Bluesky CTO Paul Frazee offered attendees a glimpse of what’s ahead for the protocol’s development and how those will help developers build more applications to expand the ecosystem in the future. One of the key additions coming soon is support for the authentication stan
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Sometimes the most serious news stories result in the best collection of satirical memes. On Monday, the Atlantic magazine posted an article by editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg headlined "The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans." And while that may sound like a parody story in The Onion, it was all too real. Goldberg had somehow been added to a group chat using Signal, an open-source, encrypted messaging service, along with Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of Defense Pete
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Don’t call it a Bluesky conference. Over the weekend, the first in-person gathering devoted to those building with the AT Protocol, or ATProto — the technology that powers Bluesky’s growing social network of 33 million-plus users — was held in Seattle. At the event, developers, engineers, founders, and even members of the Bluesky team, including CEO Jay Graber, were in attendance. Many in the community were meeting each other for the first time after having only ever communicated online. But a
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Don’t call it a Bluesky conference. Over the weekend, the first in-person gathering devoted to those building with the AT Protocol, or atproto — the technology that powers Bluesky’s growing social network of 33 million-plus users — was held in Seattle. At the event, developers, engineers, founders, and even members of the Bluesky team, including CEO Jay Graber, were in attendance. Many in the community were meeting each other for the first time after having only ever communicated online. But a
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-02 16:20:11
In Brief Social network Bluesky, an alternative to X built on open source technologies, has scored a big win in terms of attracting notable users to its platform. The company on Sunday confirmed that former president Barack Obama has joined its service. Bluesky OOO Rose Wang replied to a post where someone wondered if the account posting as Obama was legitimately him by writing “Confirmed!” In his first few posts on the platform, Obama celebrated the 15th anniversary of the Affordable Care Ac
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Anyone who's fallen victim to the "Well, actually" reply needs to use this new Threads feature. Meta announced Thursday that it's introducing a number of controls and personalization features. The most important tools include the ability to limit replies and quote-posts to just your followers, and a new option to add up to 10 tagged topics to your bio. That means when you create a new post, you can choose is allowed to reply to it: anyone, just your followers or nobody at all. Which means that
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If you've posted online before, then you've probably dealt with unwanted opinions in your replies, whether it's a tirade from strangers who think they know better or spam from a bot trying to sell something. So, hopefully, this new feature from Threads will make it easier to control who can annoy you online. Threads' parent company Meta announced Thursday that it's introducing a number of controls and personalization features. The most important tools include the ability to limit replies and qu
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Social network Bluesky, an open source X rival, has made a change that will allow publishers to better track the referral traffic originating from posts on its platform. According to a comment from Bluesky employee Emily Liu, the company is now sending referral traffic through Bluesky’s “go” subdomain to make it easier for publishers to track when visitors to their site came by way of a link shared on the social network. When you click on a link shared on Bluesky, you’ll notice that it briefly
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-14 03:50:18
Social network Bluesky recently published a proposal on GitHub outlining new options it could give users to indicate whether they want their posts and data to be scraped for things like generative AI training and public archiving. CEO Jay Graber discussed the proposal earlier this week, while on-stage at South by Southwest, but it attracted fresh attention on Friday night, after she posted about it on Bluesky. Some users reacted with alarm to the company’s plans, which they saw as a reversal of
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-15 02:19:51
When Bluesky CEO Jay Graber took the SXSW stage this week, she managed to make fun of Mark Zuckerberg without mentioning Meta at all. Her black T-shirt was emblazoned with black text stretching across the chest and sleeves, similar to the style of a T-shirt that the billionaire founder wore at an event last year. Graber’s shirt declared in Latin, Mundus sine Caesaribus. Or, “a world without Caesars.” On Bluesky, users expressed such excitement over Graber’s T-shirt that the platform decided to
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When Bluesky CEO Jay Graber took the SXSW stage this week, she managed to make fun of Mark Zuckerberg without mentioning Meta at all. Her black T-shirt was emblazoned with black text stretching across the chest and sleeves, similar to the style of a T-shirt that the billionaire founder wore at an event last year. Graber’s shirt declared in Latin, Mundus sine Caesaribus. Or, “a world without Caesars.” On Bluesky, users expressed such excitement over Graber’s T-shirt that the platform decided to
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-23 16:16:18
The microblogging social network Bluesky was updated today with some new features aimed at improving the experience of using the platform. With the update, users can now upload longer videos – but that’s not all. Read on as we detail what’s new on Bluesky. What’s new in Bluesky: longer videos and more As detailed by Bluesky in a post, version 1.99 of the platform brings some welcome and long-awaited changes. One of the most notable is certainly the ability to upload longer videos. More specifi
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Bluesky continues to beef up its video capabilities. The app’s latest update adds support for uploads of up to 3 minutes, a notable expansion from its previous limit of one minute. The change should give video creators on Bluesky much more flexibility in what they can post. It will also likely be appreciated by fans of Flashes , the new Bluesky-based photo and video app. The update also brings some much needed inbox-management tools to Bluesky DMs, with the addition of a new “requests” section
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-24 02:48:49
Bluesky is adding support for longer, three-minute videos – a notable improvement from the previous one-minute limit . The update is rolling out in Bluesky version 1.99 , which also includes a new DM filter that allows you to you approve or reject messages from people you might not know. The new “Chat Requests” feature is similar to Message Requests on X, and it will appear as a banner at the top of your inbox. Tap into it, and you’ll find messages from unknown users. Based on the example share
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-24 06:37:25
Bluesky now allows videos that are up to 3 minutes long, the decentralized social network announced on Monday. The platform launched support for video back in September with a 60-second time limit. With the new expanded time limit, Bluesky is bringing its user experience more in line with its competitors, X (formerly Twitter) and Meta’s Threads. X allows nonpaying users to upload videos up to two minutes and 20 second in length, while Threads lets users videos up to five minutes long. The chan
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Speaking at the SXSW conference in Austin on Monday, Bluesky CEO Jay Graber says the social network has been working on a framework for user consent over how they want their data to be used for generative AI. The public nature of Bluesky’s social network has already allowed others to train their AI systems on users’ content, as was discovered last year when 404 Media came across a dataset built from 1 million Bluesky posts hosted on Hugging Face. Bluesky competitor X, meanwhile, is feeding use
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When Bluesky CEO Jay Graber walked on stage at SXSW 2025 for her keynote discussion, she wore a large black T-shirt with her hair pulled back into a bun. At first glance, it might appear as though she’s following the same playbook that so many women in tech leadership have played before: downplaying her femininity to be taken seriously. The truth is way more interesting than that. What might look like your average black T-shirt is a subtle, yet clear swipe at Mark Zuckerberg, a CEO who represen
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-24 18:30:00
Surf, the new app from Flipboard for browsing the open social web, is expanding its support for Bluesky’s social network. On Monday, the company announced a new version of its beta software (dubbed “Blue Wave”) which allows users to log into the app using their Bluesky credentials and then see all their Bluesky feeds in Surf, including their following feed, discover feed, and any of the custom feeds they’ve pinned in the Bluesky app. The new integration will also allow users to access other Blu
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-28 11:52:14
If you’re a heavy Mastodon user (or were a Twitter user back in the good old days), you’re probably familiar with Tapbots – the company behind the popular Ivory and Tweetbot apps. The developers now have some good news to share with Bluesky users, as they announced this week that they’ve been working on a new app for the platform. New Bluesky app ‘Phoenix’ coming soon to the App Store Called “Phoenix,” the app will essentially be a Tweetbot or Ivory for Bluesky. The announcement was confirmed
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