As Bluesky aims to carve out a safe and welcoming space, it has the opportunity to learn from Twitter’s missteps and establish itself as a platform for meaningful, responsible social interaction.
Bluesky’s rise underscores a growing demand for safer, more personalized social media platforms. With its unique features and growing user base, it’s positioning itself as a strong alternative to X.
Bluesky, a rising alternative to Elon Musk’s X, is experiencing a massive surge in users following Donald Trump’s U.S. presidential win and controversial policy changes on X. Adding 2.5 million users in a week, Bluesky has now surpassed 16 million total users.
NOAA's Friday forecast shows continued higher-than-normal activity, but the chances for another overnight show are slim farther south of Canada and the northern Plains states.
Jack Dorsey has reportedly quit the board of Bluesky which he co-founded. The company informed that the platform has been thriving as an open source social network running on 'proto'.
Bluesky, co-founded by Jack Dorsey has appeared to be the most advanced among the Twitter alternatives which are emerging in the past year. However, its current size limits its potential for significant influence.
Even though the platform changed its name, Pebble has copied a lot of the features that X (Formerly Twitter) used to have since it started, like the blue verification checkmark and other things like quoting posts, sending direct messages, and its own personalised feed.
Additionally, Bluesky introduces the concept of custom feeds, providing users the ability to select the algorithm shaping their social media experience. This feature grants users greater control over their attention and engagement.
X Corp, led by Elon Musk, has also announced the discontinuation of Circles, a feature allowing users to curate a select group of up to 150 people for specific conversations.
Bluesky has been focusing on enhancing moderation and content curation through increased staffing and improved tools, scaling up its infrastructure, and enabling network federation to accommodate growth.
Bluesky, the social media platform created by Elon Musk's X (formerly Twitter), has announced its intention to enhance network stability and security by introducing "rate limits." However, Bluesky assures its users that this change will not impact their ability to post and engage on the platform.
Jack Dorsey, has deleted his Instagram account in the midst of an intensifying social media feud between Meta's Mark Zuckerberg and X's (previously Twitter) Elon Musk. Dorsey, now leading Block, confirmed this move on the decentralized platform Nostr.
Bluesky's newly introduced Discover feed is carefully crafted to meet users' preferences, seamlessly merging a global perspective of trending topics with posts from their followed accounts and socially connected profiles.
Bluesky, the Twitter competitor backed by Jack Dorsey, is under fire for a contentious update that failed to block racist and offensive slurs, leading to user outrage. The platform faces criticism for overlooking offensive language despite community guidelines.
According to Bluesky's status page, the platform experienced "degraded performance" last Saturday. An update from the platform mentioned that they were working on accommodating the large influx of users and the increase in traffic.
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