bluesky news coverage

Going on hiatus for a bit, apologies to my loyal followers (if any). If not back in a couple weeks, going on hiatus indefinitely.

Blacksky Is Nothing Like Black Twitter—and It Doesn’t Need to Be The curated feed, now run by a team of six moderators, is the meeting ground for hundreds of thousands of Black users on Bluesky. Is it ready to meet the moment?

Thank you @jasooooon.bsky.social
This is the most comprehensive coverage Blacksky has received yet
Deeply grateful for @thezodiacheir.bsky.social and @drkalyncoghill.bsky.social for the deep expertise they bring to the #Blacksky team. And thank You if you're locked in with us and helping us build.

Sign the Petition Bluesky Must Enforce its Community Guidelines Equally

A petition urging bsky to sanction Jesse Singal for releasing private medical information, in keeping with the spirit of enforcing community guidelines equally has received over 16k signatures at the time of this post.

I'm excited to announce @skyseed.fund, the world's first incubator & fund exclusively focused on Bluesky and @atproto.com.

We're just getting started but have $1 Million in committed capital, and will be doing developer grants as well as pre-seed/seed funding.

www.prweb.com/releases/ope...

Bluesky Wants To Be 'Part Of' Westminster Conversation A senior executive of Bluesky has said that she wants the emerging social media platform to be “part of the conversation” in Westminster and expand...

Bluesky wants to be “part of the conversation” in Westminster, as more MPs flock to the app

Top Bluesky executive @rose.bsky.team told me about their plans for expansion and their “fundamentally different” approach to social media debate

Plus lots of nuggets on changes Bluesky might have in store

Bluesky's Approach to Trust and Safety Aaron Rodericks talks through the tradeoffs the decentralized platform is facing with rapid growth

Bluesky's VP of Trust and Safety Aaron Rodericks @aaron.bsky.team joins me on the Impossible Tradeoffs podcast to discuss how he and the company are managing the surge of users since the U.S. election. 🎧 Listen Now! anchorchange.substack.com/p/blueskys-a...

Your Bluesky Posts Are Probably In A Bunch of Datasets Now

After a machine learning librarian released and then deleted a dataset of one million Bluesky posts, several other bigger datasets have appeared in its place—including one of almost 300 million posts.

🔗 www.404media.co/bluesky-post...

Join Us for the WIRED Big Interview Event On December 3, WIRED will be sitting down with some of the biggest names in technology, business, science, and beyond for a full day packed with in-depth conversations.

It's almost Tuesday, which means the @wired.com Big Interview event in SF is nearly here.

We'll hear from Jay Graber, Brian Chesky, Mira Murati, Jensen Huang, Mark Cuban, and more. The IRL event is full, but we'll be livestreaming the whole thing. More info here:

www.wired.com/story/thebig...

X-odus: @EFJEUROPE account will be frozen from 20 January 2025 The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) has decided it will no longer post content on Elon Musk’s social media platform, X, from 20 January 2025, ...

X-odus: @EFJEUROPE account will be frozen from 20 January 2025. The editorial evolution of X is simply in contradiction with our humanist values, our commitment to #PressFreedom and #MediaPluralism, and our fight against all forms of hatred and discrimination
europeanjournalists.org/blog/2024/11...

GoBlue's new app lets you track your Bluesky stats | TechCrunch A new app called GoBlue has launched to help those looking to track their following on Bluesky, the Twitter-like social network that's rapidly grown in

GoBlue’s new app lets you track your Bluesky stats techcrunch.com/2024/...

Bluesky promises more verification and an ‘aggressive’ approach to impersonation As more celebrities and popular influencers join Bluesky, the fast-growing social media service has been facing more concerns around impersonation and verified identity. The Bluesky Safety team posted Friday that the company has updated its impersonation…

Bluesky promises more verification and an ‘aggressive’ approach to impersonation

A Funny Thing Happened on The Way To Your Phone: Thinking About Bluesky Ever since Elon Musk bought Twitter two years ago, those who despise his evolving mix of predatory trolling, stunted emotional development and right-wing extremism have been hoping for an alternative.

I wrote this story about the migration to Bluesky, what it means and what it tells us about oligarchdom, state actor propaganda, big tech and whether you're the user or the product. Tell me what you think. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-fun...

YouTube video by MSNBC Bluesky COO says platform is focused on users not advertisers

Bluesky COO says platform is focused on users not advertisers - MSNBC

youtu.be/jOVJlrw8UM0

Could Blacksky emerge as Black Twitter’s spiritual successor on Bluesky? As Black Twitter users flee X, developer Rudy Fraser's Blacksky on Bluesky creates a new safe haven reaching 750K users without VC funding.

Nothing but the deepest gratitude to @tarikmoody.com for helping tell this story.

> “The beauty of the network is you can choose your adventure,” Fraser says. And for a growing number of users, that adventure leads to Blacksky.

Bluesky now displays replies by 'hotness' Not everyone is happy about it being the default.

Bluesky now displays replies by 'hotness'

mashable.com/article/blue...

afaict gfwatch lists bsky as blocked since June bsky.app/profile/matt...

But OONI still has it as accessible from some nodes explorer.ooni.org/search?since...

Bluesky has a verification problem The influx of new users to Bluesky has opened up new opportunities for scammers and impersonators hoping to capitalize on the attention.

Bluesky is now big enough it has to grapple with a problem that nearly every platform before it has also faced: how to handle verification. I wrote about why its current approach is flawed, and talked with @hunterw.bsky.social about his valiant effort to verify notable accounts himself.

Rose Wang, Bluesky COO: ‘People are tired of the algorithm deciding everything’

Meta's Threads is developing its own take on Bluesky's 'Starter Packs' | TechCrunch Hoping to quell some of the momentum behind social network Bluesky, a competitor to X and Meta's Threads, Meta is developing a feature that takes

Meta’s Threads is developing its own take on Bluesky’s ‘Starter Packs’ techcrunch.com/2024/...

Bluesky verification could look a lot different from X's blue checks | TechCrunch The rapidly growing social networking startup Bluesky, a Twitter/X alternative built on open web principles, revealed in a livestream on Monday how its

Bluesky verification could look a lot different from X’s blue checks techcrunch.com/2024/...

Reddit AMA (and accompanying twitch stream vod) from @pfrazee.com and @emilyliu.me

redd.it/1gyfram/?sor...

youtu.be/JR4QHie9ilQ

That journalist is @annodea.com and the interview got published in @siliconrepublic.bsky.social. Ann captured my thoughts perfectly. The success of this platform isn't solely on the Bluesky team, it's a shared responsibility, the community has a role to play. www.siliconrepublic.com/enterprise/k...

How to turn a Bluesky Starter Pack into a List | TechCrunch A new tool for the rapidly growing X competitor Bluesky helps you quickly create new feeds that you can pin to the app's home page to follow your various

How to turn a Bluesky Starter Pack into a List techcrunch.com/2024/...

Sill's new app rounds up the best links from your Bluesky and Mastodon networks | TechCrunch Want to keep up with what everyone's talking about on alternative social media sites like Bluesky and Mastodon, but don't have time to constantly scroll

Sill’s new app rounds up the best links from your Bluesky and Mastodon networks techcrunch.com/2024/...

At least one item on his wishlist has been granted: Bluesky has decided to quadruple the size of its contract workforce of content moderators from 25 to 100, the company told Platformer. The move comes in response to Bluesky’s rapid growth since this month’s US presidential election, which triggered a fresh exodus of users away from Elon Musk’s X and over the weekend took the platform past 22 million total users.

Some news: amid rapid growth and some over-enforcement of its community guidelines, Bluesky trust and safety chief @aaron.bsky.team tells me the company will quadruple the size of its content moderation team www.platformer.news/bluesky-grow...

It's happening. The migration to Bluesky is real. "Canadian MPs among social media users pivoting from X to Bluesky in the wake of U.S. vote. Basically, what we're seeing is a reconfiguration of the social media landscape"- @philipmai.com, co-director of @socialmedialab.ca www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Bluesky breaching rules around disclosure of information, says EU Social media platform that has grown in exodus from Elon Musk’s X is accused of not declaring user numbers

Bluesky breaching rules around disclosure of information, says EU

https://www.ft.com/content/9083d7f8-d2e6-4e08-a324-8def68258efd

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Bluesky is growing so fast it's racing to get hold of more servers, its COO says

www.businessinsider.com/bluesky-user...

The Right Has a Bluesky Problem The X exodus is weakening a way for conservatives to speak to the masses.

As the left flees and X loses broader relevance, it becomes a more overtly right-wing site, @alibreland.bsky.social writes. But the right needs liberals on X in order to push conservative perspectives into the mainstream.