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'Starter packs' have played a central role in Bluesky's rapid growth

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-29 16:22:40

“Vital onboarding strategy for the emerging social media systems” “Our findings go beyond Bluesky: they point to a new framework for launching successful social platforms,” said Dr Onur Ascigil, Lecturer in Computer Science at Lancaster University and Principal Investigator of the study. “Starter packs are becoming a vital onboarding strategy for the emerging social media systems that are seeking to attract users from dominant platforms.” The researchers believe their findings could help platfo

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Bluesky is adding age verification features for users in the UK

engadget.com Unknown 2025-08-01 16:57:53

Bluesky users in the UK will soon need to verify their age if they want continued access to direct messages and all of the service's content. The company will begin rolling out age verification features later this month in order to comply with a UK law that requires platforms that offer adult content to confirm users' ages, Bluesky said in an update . The company says it will use Epic games' Kids Web Services to conduct age verification checks, and that people will be able to choose between sev

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Bluesky is rolling out age verification in the UK

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-08-02 01:01:19

Bluesky is adding age verification to its platform in the UK as part of efforts to comply with the country’s Online Safety Act. In an update on Thursday, the platform says it will let users verify their age by scanning their face, uploading an ID, or entering a payment card. Bluesky will perform age verification through Kid Web Services (KWS), an Epic Games-owned tool that developers can use to implement age verification and parental controls on their platforms. If users don’t want to verify th

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Bluesky gets activity notifications as it tries to lure news and sports users

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-08-04 21:57:39

One of the biggest holdouts for news junkies and sports fans on Bluesky is no more. Starting this week, users can get push notifications whenever a specific account posts, just like on X. As announced by Bluesky’s own account on Bluesky (where else?), the new Activity Notifications feature is now live, and thankfully it works exactly how one would expect: tap the bell icon on any profile, and you’ll be able to choose between alerts for new posts only, or posts plus replies if you feel like you

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Jack Dorsey’s New Private Messenger App Doesn’t Need an Internet Connection

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-08-07 17:45:50

What has Jack Dorsey, the founder of Twitter (now X) been up to lately? Among other things, creating experimental little projects, like a new private messenger that doesn’t need the internet to function. On Sunday, Dorsey announced the beta launch of a new messaging app that he says relies on mesh networks to pass messages from user to user via the power of Bluetooth technology. The service sounds vaguely like Amazon’s Sidewalk project (which similarly used mesh networks to power IoT devices),

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Bluesky can really keep up with the news now that it has activity notifications

theverge.com Richard Lawler 2025-08-08 16:03:12

One thing that has been missing from Bluesky until now was the ability to turn on notifications for specific accounts, but now Activity Notifications are live. If you want to know every time The Verge or ESPN, or one of your friends posts, you can, just by toggling the bell icon on their profile page, along with an option to see notifications for just new posts or with replies included too. It’s the kind of feature I’ve gotten used to on other platforms, especially Twitter, where news breakers

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Bluesky is finally adding more ways to filter notifications

engadget.com Unknown 2025-08-09 01:55:42

Bluesky has updated its notification settings so that users have more control over when and why the social media app sends them a ping. Besides more granular controls over which things will trigger a notification, you can now receive alerts for any activity from a chosen account. As a fledgling app, Bluesky has lacked the in-depth notification toggles you might find in something like Instagram, which has had over a decade to figure out when people want to be contacted. With this update, the sit

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Threads is nearing X’s daily app users, new data shows

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-08-09 13:41:32

Instagram Threads is close to catching up to top competitor X in terms of mobile app users, according to new data from market intelligence provider Similarweb. In June 2025, Threads’ mobile app for iOS and Android saw 115.1 million daily active users, representing 127.8% year-over-year growth; X reached 132 million daily actives, as its year-over-year growth declined by 15.2%. By comparison, decentralized social network Bluesky grew a sizable 372.5% year-over-year as of June, but its worldwide

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Ask not for whom the Louvre of Bluesky tolls, it tolls for thee

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 2025-08-09 15:11:39

It’s a sad weekend over at Bluesky, where one of the best accounts has disappeared — although we can still hope for its resurrection. Known as The Louvre of Bluesky, the account in question struck fear into the hearts of bad posters everywhere. While it posted commentary and jokes of its own, its most brutally funny and haunting work came in the form of screenshots capturing rogue Bluesky posts in all their unhinged glory. It’s hard to write a proper appreciation now that the Louvre has vanish

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Everything you need to know about Flashes, the Bluesky-based Instagram alternative

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-08-14 05:47:00

Flashes this year launched an Instagram alternative built on top of the Bluesky social network. Now available on the App Store, the app offers a different way to browse the visual posts on Bluesky. Instead of viewing them in a timeline-like feed, similar to X, the app draws inspiration from photo-based social networks, like Instagram. What you can post The app, built by Berlin-based developer Sebastian Vogelsang, runs on the same underlying protocol that powers Bluesky, the AT Protocol (or atp

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Bluesky briefly suspended JD Vance’s account after he joined

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2025-09-05 14:27:31

In Brief When U.S. Vice President JD Vance joined Bluesky on Wednesday evening, he got banned immediately. However, his account was restored after a while, with Bluesky saying that the ban was issued after the social network’s system that looks for impersonating attempts fired a warning. “Vice President Vance’s account was briefly flagged by our automated systems that try to detect impersonation attempts, which have targeted public figures like him in the past. The account was quickly restored

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Beyond Bluesky: These are the apps building social experiences on the AT Protocol

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-09-14 05:04:43

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 36.5 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 conferenc

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Bluesky backlash misses the point

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-09-16 01:27:19

Bluesky is missing an opportunity to explain to people that its network is more than just its own Bluesky social app. In recent weeks, a number of headlines and posts have surfaced questioning whether Bluesky’s growth is declining, if the network has become too much of a left-leaning echo chamber, or if its users lack a sense of humor, among other charges. Investor Mark Cuban, who even financially backed Skylight, a video app built on Bluesky’s underlying protocol, AT Proto, complained this we

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Latest Tech News

'Starter packs' have played a central role in Bluesky's rapid growth

Bluesky is adding age verification features for users in the UK

Bluesky is rolling out age verification in the UK

Bluesky gets activity notifications as it tries to lure news and sports users

Jack Dorsey’s New Private Messenger App Doesn’t Need an Internet Connection

Bluesky can really keep up with the news now that it has activity notifications

Bluesky is finally adding more ways to filter notifications

Threads is nearing X’s daily app users, new data shows

Ask not for whom the Louvre of Bluesky tolls, it tolls for thee

Everything you need to know about Flashes, the Bluesky-based Instagram alternative

Bluesky briefly suspended JD Vance’s account after he joined

Beyond Bluesky: These are the apps building social experiences on the AT Protocol

Bluesky backlash misses the point

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