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BTW it's worth calling attention to a bit I linked to yesterday. Cross-posting to Bluesky and Mastodon is not on the roadmap for WordLand. They are too limited in the features they support for writers. This is a big point, not a casual thing. I am trying to create a network that's like stereo to mon...

Today's thematic Drop features "The Blue Report," which analyzes trending links on Bluesky using a scoring formula. It also explores the AT Protocol's applications, emphasizing practical development. And, it introduces a study by Quelle and Bovet examines Bluesky's network, revealing a left-center p...

The very last message in the DG is, now, 25 years later, basically the design of the network I'm building -- with WordLand as the frontend and WordPress as the backend. The issue is the same. When people post only to get attention, forget about anything useful getting done there. It's strictly a bro...

For a while now, I’ve been syndicating my posts to MSN. You can see Werd I/O’s profile over there. In some ways, this is my normiest network: whereas my Mastodon community is more technical, my Bluesky community is more political and my newsletter subscribers tend to be a mix of people from the tech...

Sarah Perez, TechCrunch “Automattic and Others Back Openvibe, an App That’s Unifying the Open Social Web”: Launched in 2024, Openvibe initially supported three of the more prominent open social networks, all of which operate using different protocols: Mastodon uses ActivityPub, Bluesky runs on AT Pr...

Timur Kuran is right, they have no business doing this. Furthermore the quality of the work is not befitting an AEA journal. Demonstrated preference is not stressed, for instance that even survey respondents are about 10x more likely to be reading Twitter than BlueSky. Maybe it is all a network effe...

As the "Great Social Network Wars" carry on (my term, not anyone else), I'm finding myself more and more enjoying Bluesky. I do more posting on Mastodon, but Bluesky reminds me a lot more of early Twitter. Threads is... ok, but has felt too corporate. I can't even remember the last time I checked it...

🔗 Bridges & The Last Network Effect Dec. 14, 2024, 10:56 p.m. via web "The endgame is not Mastodon, Bluesky, or Threads. The endgame is finding communities on the web and following them all on the best platform for you." #socialmedia

After seeing many similar experiments, I am testing a way to show and comment on this blog’s articles using Bluesky network. In the best case, it will make the comment section more lively. In the worst case, I would had learned something new. -- Read More

The decision by the European Federation of Journalists, the largest such organization in Europe, to stop posting on Twitter as of January 20, 2025, signals a broader media shift towards social media and news sharing alternatives. “The EFJ considers that it can no longer ethically participate in a so...

Sill rounds up the best links from your Mastodon and Bluesky network, Apple reveals App Store Awards finalists, The Art of taking it slow, and a lot more in this week's issue of Creativerly.

When I first joined the BlueSky social network last year, I remember being struck by the notion that I could select a custom hosting provider. I didn't fully understand what this meant, beyond the fact that it allowed me to link my account to a privately-owned domain name. — Read the rest The post H...

[Tyler Fisher] Tyler Fisher has built a Nuzzel-like service for Bluesky: "Sill connects to your Bluesky and Mastodon accounts and aggregates the most popular links in your network. (Yes, a little like Nuzzel.)" It's a personal project for now but there's more to come: "I built Sill as a passion proj...

The social media landscape is in flux these days. Twitter is having it's second mass exodus. The first happened when Elon Musk purchased the network in 2022. The most recent is a result of the 2024 US election. The primary beneficiary appears to be Bluesky. Mark Zuckerberg is being mocked for rapidl...

There's been a lot of talk about the social network Bluesky lately. If you have an account there and want to show your latest status update on your blog, here's an easy way to do that. Vincent Will has put together a script named bsky-embed. All you need to do is enter your username and modify the s...

the evidence is overwhelming: Social networks with a single proprietor have trouble with long-term survival, and those do survive have trouble with user-experience quality: see Enshittification. The evidence is also perfectly clear that it doesn’t have to be this way. The original social network, em...

Journalist and developer Tyler Fisher, on his personal blog: Today I’m excited to launch the public beta of Sill, my new social media tool. Sill connects to your Bluesky and Mastodon accounts and aggregates the most popular links in your network. …

The social media platform Bluesky has grown from 12 million to more than 20 million users since the election.

Twitter-like microblogging social network Bluesky is having its moment in the sun. We’ve all seen the multiple headlines of late heralding the arrival of another several million new members, most of whom have migrated from Twitter. The buzz is similar to that surrounding Mastodon about two years ago...

What matters with social networks is what you can get done there, not so much the features of the network. Bluesky has the same features today it had a month ago. The difference is we had an election in the US, I guess that was the catalyst. The presence of Elon Musk so close to Trump says there is ...

Nearly 20 million people have joined Bluesky, a social network that gives you fine-grained control over what you see and who you interact with. I think it is the future of social media, says Chris Stokel-Walker

November has sucked so far. One upside of the terrible nonsense is that more people are fleeing X. Many are choosing Bluesky. I’ve seen a bunch of takes about this recently, but I keep seeing things I disagree with. I figure that’s a good enough excuse to write more about this weird-assed social net...

Image: Samar Haddad / The Verge So, you’ve finally decided to give Bluesky a shot. The social network has come a long way since the early bare-bones days of invite-only signups and recently grew past the 15 million user mark. Along the way, it’s gathered a lot of familiar posting platform features, ...

Why Not Bluesky Search As a dangerous and evil man drives people away from Xitter, many stories are talking up Bluesky as the destination for the diaspora. This piece explains why I kind of like Bluesky but, for the moment, have no intention of moving my online social life away from the Fediverse. (...

like Nuzzel before Twitter bought it and shut it down #

These thoughts about Bluesky are unorganised and mostly off-the-cuff so make of that what you will. The API, even just for posting, strikes me as very strange. I, as the developer, have to mark which things are hashtags, mentions, and links unlike Twitter, Mastodon, and basically every other network...

Musk's close alignment with the new US President-elect has triggered a new exodus from X — with many communities heading for Bluesky. Will this be the tipping point for the new network?

While it doesn’t do static embeds, this shortcode gives you an easy way to show content from an increasingly popular social network. The Bluesky social media network, initially hampered by a wait-for-your-invite policy while capacity was being enhanced, recently has hit a growth spurt. Bluesky is no...

Whenever you ask for something with Bluesky they tell you about how a user account is like a website, you just have to make it work a certain way, that some devs have mastered, and I guess I could too, but right now all my attention is focused on WordPress and getting it to work well with ActivityPu...

Bluesky and Threads are on the rise. Can it last?

Image: Bluesky Bluesky gained more than 700,000 new users in the last week and now has more than 14.5 million users total, Bluesky COO Rose Wang confirmed to The Verge. The “majority” of the new users on the decentralized social network are from the US, Wang says. The app is currently the number two...

It’s been a while since I wrote about Bluesky. My previous “Hello World” for Bluesky was a quick overview of using the APIs to authenticate and post to Bluesky. It remains a popular post all these months later, and several people have let me know it helped get up and running with integrating with th...

Bluesky comes up in the latest ActivityPub newsletter update from Ghost: Another cool thing that happened last week was that we enabled a bridge to BlueSky — an alternative decentralized social network which doesn’t use ActivityPub, but instead uses its own alternative protocol. I was confused on my...

[Bluesky Announces Series A to Grow Network of 13M+ Users] An important announcement from Bluesky: "We’re excited to announce that we’ve raised a $15 million Series A financing led by Blockchain Capital with participation from Alumni Ventures, True Ventures, SevenX, Amir Shevat of Darkmode, co-creat...

Bluesky now exceeds 13 million users, the AT Protocol developer ecosystem continues to grow, and we’ve shipped highly requested features like direct messages and video.

Image: Bluesky X is currently banned in Brazil following an order from a Supreme Court justice, and Brazilian users seem to be turning to Bluesky, an alternate social network, in droves. “Brazil, you’re setting new all-time-highs for activity on Bluesky!” the official Bluesky account says in a post....

I have started using the Openvibe app that is like an aggregator app allowing you to connect to Nostr, Mastodon and Bluesky. I am definitely a Mastodon user more than any other these social networks or any social network for that matter but I still like to have a place for the all three platforms. W...

Elon Musk bought the biggest airport on the social web. A major world hub like Atlanta, London or Dubai. Bluesky is a regional airport in a cool place, maybe Austin. Mastodon is a small network of airports, like the ones served by Ryanair in Europe. Threads is potentially one of the big airports lik...

Vague thoughts as they enter my brainbox. The BlueSky social network has introduced "Reply Gating" - it looks like this: You can write your hot take on Taylor Swift and not be inundated by weirdos replying to you. Nifty! This is nothing new. Twitter has it. Facebook has the concept of "audiences" to...

"An important step toward a more interoperable “fediverse” — the broader network of decentralized social media apps like Mastodon, Bluesky and others — has been achieved." Bridgy has always been a useful product; Bridgy Fed is an easy way for folks on the fediverse and on Bluesky to be able to inter...

Nos is running a "journalism accelerator", which onboards independent journalists and publications onto Nostr with guaranteed promotion and 1:1 help. Nostr is a different kind of open network, in the sense that it's decentralized rather than federated. Famously, Jack Dorsey defected there from Blues...

Decentralized social media network Bluesky has confirmed that direct messages (DMs) is among several new features that they plan to… Continue reading Bluesky to launch DMs, video, and enhanced custom feeds The post Bluesky to launch DMs, video, and enhanced custom feeds appeared first on ReadWrite.

Bluesky is built by around 10 engineers, and has amassed 5 million users since publicly launching in February this year. A deep dive into novel design decisions, moving off AWS, and more.

In Part 1 of this series, we tried to answer the question “who do you follow who also follows user B” in Bluesky, a social network with millions of users and hundreds of millions of follow relationships. At the conclusion of the post, we’d developed an in-memory graph store for the network that uses...

The CEOs of Mastodon, Bluesky, Automattic and Ghost are all in my (real soon now) blogroll because their systems all support feeds. There's something new afoot. An open social network that "just works" across platforms because of simple easy well-established standards.

Seit letzter Woche braucht man keinen Invite-Code mehr um sich bei Bluesky anzumelden, die wesentlich spannendere Info steht aber, wie beiläufig erwähnt, im letzten Abschnitt: This month, we’ll be rolling out an experimental early version of “federation,” or the feature that makes the network so ope...

Bluesky, the much-hyped open-source alternative to X/Twitter, is now open for all — invites code no longer needed! Launched in the spring of last year, Bluesky is a decentralised social network modelled after early Twitter. You sign up, post, follow people, repost, and generally enjoy seeing content...

Yesterday I sent a message to people who follow me on Twitter, Facebook, Bluesky, Mastodon, Threads, asking which networks people check first, which they get the most out of. As you might expect, the most common answer was the network I was asking on (except Facebook, no one answered there, I guesse...