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Bluesky Now Has 24 Million Users. Jay Graber Is Still Vowing to Keep It From Enshittification
04 Dec

Bluesky Now Has 24 Million Users. Jay Graber Is Still Vowing to Keep It From Enshittification

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Bluesky has seen massive growth in the weeks following the US election. As of Tuesday, there are 24 million users on the social media platform. With great engagement comes great responsibility, which means Bluesky CEO Jay Graber has to do a lot to keep her promise to not “enshittify” the platform with ads while still funding its explosive growth.On Tuesday, during WIRED’s Big Interview event in San Francisco, she vowed to keep that promise, saying that the company is still “focused on making sure it’s a good experience [for users] as we scale,” she said.Enshittification, as its known, generally comes…
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Bluesky implements a ‘more aggressive’ impersonation policy
30 Nov

Bluesky implements a ‘more aggressive’ impersonation policy

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Bluesky has updated its impersonation policy to be "more aggressive" after third-party analysis highlighted its verification problem. The Bluesky Safety account said that the social media service is removing accounts that are impersonating other people and those squatting on handles. Bluesky doesn't have a conventional verification system, so it's easy for unscrupulous users to pretend to be someone else either for attention or to scam other people. That may not have been a serious problem in the past, but the recent influx of new users threw the issue into stark relief.While users can verify their identities on Bluesky by linking…
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Starter Packs are the latest Bluesky feature that Threads is going to shamelessly adopt
27 Nov

Starter Packs are the latest Bluesky feature that Threads is going to shamelessly adopt

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Threads is readying a feature inspired by Bluesky’s Starter Packs, according to reporting by TechCrunch and others. Chris Messina, who invented the hashtag, posted a screenshot of the tool to the social media app. He also says you can see an early version of the tool yourself by pasting "installedbarcelona://recommended_follow_lists" into Safari on iOS if you have the latest Threads app. We gave this a shot and, lo and behold, it worked. Meta/ThreadsFor those who have yet to wander over to Bluesky, Starter Packs are curated lists of people to follow that help newcomers get started on the app. These…
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Threads just announced it had more than 35 million signups in November
27 Nov

Threads just announced it had more than 35 million signups in November

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Threads just announced that it has experienced significant growth throughout November, to the tune of 35 million signups. A platform spokesperson told Engadget that the social media app has received more than a million signups every single day for the past three months. To that end, Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri for November in the middle of the month. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg that the app had over 275 million monthly active users.There’s one likely reason Threads is crowing like this. Rival social media app Bluesky has been rapidly growing and snagging a whole lot of positive press. However, it’s worth…
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Threads’ latest test will finally let you make the ‘following’ feed the default
26 Nov

Threads’ latest test will finally let you make the ‘following’ feed the default

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Meta’s Threads is pushing out another test that could address a major long-running complaint about the service. The company is experimenting with allowing users to set the non-algorithmic “following” feed as the default, Mark Zuckerberg in a post.The change, according to Zuckerberg, will allow users to select any feed as their default, including the newly announced . But longtime Threads users will likely be relieved to finally have the ability to make “following” their default view. Up until now, Meta has pushed users to its “for you” algorithmic feed, which has long been criticized for its problems with and its…
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Bluesky Says It Won’t Screw Things Up
22 Nov

Bluesky Says It Won’t Screw Things Up

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Like the conflicted cowboy in Brokeback Mountain, journalists, pundits and people who eschew MAGA merch have looked at the service formerly known as Twitter and lamented, “I don’t know how to quit you.” Even before Elon Musk took over, toxicity was running rampant, and Musk’s selectively implemented “free speech” principles made things worse. The ubiquitous ads—often low-quality ones promoting clickbait or a candidate you’d never vote for—further torched the experience. Yet X, as Musk so brutally renamed it, still appeared to be the only place with real scale and existing communities. For many of us, the switching costs seemed too…
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Threads will prioritize accounts you follow instead of randos
21 Nov

Threads will prioritize accounts you follow instead of randos

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As people leave or deactivate , there's been meaningful growth for alternative platforms like Meta's Threads and underdog Bluesky. Despite the huge gap in both user numbers and funding between the two, Threads seems to be borrowing from Bluesky's feature set to prevent it from becoming competitive. reported that Adam Mosseri, the head of Instagram, announced that Threads’ algorithm is getting a “rebalancing” to “prioritize content from people you follow” and “less recommended content from accounts you don’t follow.” Which… is pretty much how Bluesky does things. @mosseri/ThreadsThreads also started offering users as a way to stay way ahead of…
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Meta is testing custom feeds for Threads
17 Nov

Meta is testing custom feeds for Threads

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As the competition between Bluesky and Threads heats up, Meta is adding a new feature to Threads that will likely look familiar to Bluesky users: custom feeds. The Meta-owned service is starting to test a feature that allows users to pin topic-based feeds to the home screen of the app.The change will give people additional feeds beyond the algorithmic “for you,” which will remain the default view, and their “following feed.” Users can add custom feeds by searching a keyword like “skincare” and then tapping the “...” menu and selecting “create new feed.” These feeds can be further customized by…
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The suddenly hot Bluesky says it won’t train AI on your posts
16 Nov

The suddenly hot Bluesky says it won’t train AI on your posts

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Bluesky, which has surged in the days following the US election, said on Friday that it won’t train on its users’ posts for generative AI. The declaration stands in stark contrast to the AI training policies of X (Twitter) and Meta’s Threads. Probably not coincidentally, Bluesky’s announcement came the same day X’s new terms of service, allowing third-party partners to train on user posts, went into effect.“A number of artists and creators have made their home on Bluesky, and we hear their concerns with other platforms training on their data,” Bluesky posted (via The Verge) on Friday. “We do not…
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Bluesky’s upcoming premium plan won’t give paid users special treatment
25 Oct

Bluesky’s upcoming premium plan won’t give paid users special treatment

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Bluesky has revealed how it plans to start making money without necessarily having to rely on ads. The platform will remain free to use for everyone, though it’s working on a premium subscription that will provide access to profile customization tools (remember when Myspace offered that for free?) and higher quality .One thing that you won't get as a paid user, though, is any preferential treatment. Unlike certain other social platforms, Bluesky won’t boost the visibility of premium members’ posts. Nor will they get any kind of blue check, chief operating officer Rose Wang.In addition, Bluesky is planning a tip…
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