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Bluesky remains an invite-only, decentralized Twitter alternative, but you now don't need to log in to view posts on the platform, according to a blog post by Bluesky CEO Jay Graber. Now you can see posts from both the web and the Bluesky app, like this one. If you want to prevent offline users from seeing your posts, you can discourage" it by clicking a button in the settings. But Bluesky notes that "other apps may not honor this request" and that the option does not make your account private. “Bluesky is a public and open network,” Bluesky says in a note below the switch. “These settings only limit the visibility of your content on the Bluesky app and website, and other apps may not respect these settings.
In the blog post, Graber notes that "posts in Bluesky Argentina Phone Number List have always been public through developer tools and other applications." Bluesky also has a new logo: a butterfly. Previously, the app's logo was a blue sky with clouds, but "early on, we noticed people organically using the butterfly emoji to indicate their Bluesky handles," Graber says in the blog post. "The butterfly speaks to our mission to transform social networks into something new." I think the butterfly is a big improvement over the generic sky blue. And, as my colleague Parker Ortolani discovered, the app has a fun animation that will look familiar to Twitter fans. (I mean Twitter, not X.
With the growing momentum behind ActivityPub, including public support from Meta's Threads, I'm concerned that Bluesky, which is based on its own AT protocol, could be left behind. But every time I log into my Bluesky account, people seem to be having a lot of fun (the platform also seems to be growing rapidly), so I hope the protocols can coexist and usher in a diverse future. threatens to break relations and warns of further escalation in Ukraine Russia does not rule out breaking diplomatic relations with the United States. It would happen if the money frozen in Moscow was used to financially help invaded Ukraine.
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