Bluesky

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Your social media algorithm isn't a hot dog. You should know what’s in it.

X: trying to propagandize you Threads: trying to monetize you Bluesky: trying to help you find community and have fun

The Bluesky Promise: 1. If you follow someone, you'll see their posts 2. If someone follows you, they'll see your posts Sounds basic, but apparently only truly elite coders can pull it off

Last April, Bluesky raised $100M in Series B funding led by Bain Capital Crypto. Since then: 13M → 43M+ users. Join us. bsky.social/about/blog/03-…

The early internet had weird little forums where people who loved the same obscure thing could find each other. At Bluesky we're trying to bring that back, minus the Comic Sans font

Some platforms optimize for getting you to waste hours scrolling. We're actually fine with it if you close Bluesky and live your life

Chronological timeline. Posts from people you follow. Links that actually click out to the rest of the internet. Sounds like crazy talk, but it's working OK for us so far

If you haven't checked us out in a while, we've been busy. Doing work to make conversations less toxic and more civil, and adding new ways to help you find your friends on Bluesky. See what you've been missing: bsky.app

The Benito effect... activity on Bluesky spiked 70% during the Super Bowl 👀

I’ve just never heard anyone say “I need to spend MORE time on X”

when you get tired of working double shifts in the ragebait mines, we’ll be here

why do AI reply bots on X sound like they’re applying for an internship at LinkedIn

algorithm on X: “we noticed you hate this guy. here are 10 more of his posts”

Looks like X stopped working… sometime around 2022.

Bluesky is beta testing a feature that lets you apply a "Live" ring indicator when you're streaming on Twitch. Once clicked, it takes you directly to their Twitch stream.

The best part of the global town square is the billionaires who own and dominate it.

On Bluesky we don’t throttle links… punishing you for leaving the app is giving jealous ex

X openly saying they tip the scales and choose what you see. Instead of taking sides based on whose team won the last cycle, we need to fix the structural problem of one boss making the decisions — history shows us where that leads

every time a software tool adds an AI feature nobody asked for, a human logs off