We’ve invested in cutting down DM spam over the past week, so you should see fewer scammers and spammers in your inbox. Expect more improvements in this area as we build additional tooling. 1/2

Social media is in desperate need of innovation. Meta is only letting you have a slice of control over what you see because Bluesky is here building for you.

I would love for Bluesky to be able to hire an absolute team of gremlins, whose only jobs are to: * Find networks of bots, spammers, misinfo groups, and smoosh them * Write public posts (with some delay) about how they found + broke the efforts I want Project Zero meets SCP foundation reports.

I love that infosec bluesky is growing so much. I miss the old infosec twitter.

New Apple security feature reboots iPhones after 3 days, researchers confirm

An Indian politician is trying to do damage control on controversial comments he made by falsely claiming that an audio recording of him was deepfaked. Might be the first time this has happened; definitely won't be the last. https://restofworld.org/2023/indian-politician-leaked-audio-ai-deepfake/

We just enabled account sign-ups again, so any outstanding invite codes can now be used to create an account. Thanks for your patience!

hey new users, Bluesky is a *public* social network please read about data privacy and more in our User FAQ to help you get oriented! even though we require an invite code to create an account, you should treat any posts here as if it's a public blog https://blueskyweb.xyz/blog/5-19-2023-user-faq

TIRED: Killing your service’s third-party apps WIRED: Killing your service’s first-party apps

We will temporarily be pausing Bluesky sign-ups while our team continues to resolve the existing performance issues. We’ll keep you updated when invite codes will resume functionality. We’re excited to welcome more users to our beta soon!

Wow — welcome, all you new folks! 👋

Trying a bluesky giveaway! Signed copies of a SPIDER-MAN'S BAD CONNECTION galley, the hardcover for book 1, & a sticker. 🕸️ Follow + repost to enter. Extra entry if you reply w/ your favorite Spidey quip! I'll pick 1 winner at random on Monday, July 3 at noon EST. Continental US. Plz signal boost <3

If you post it, they will come. Seriously. Don't let the fact that these new platforms are underpopulated stop you. Somebody has to be the first whoever on app whatever.

alright folks, the app code is now public https://github.com/bluesky-social/social-app

Now THIS is verification. Incredibly simple powerful concept. There are confusion issues for sure that benefit from a human moderator, but it unlocks it significantly to the whole audience.

Today is the day! # Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3 opens in theaters! At the end of the day, this is a movie about joy & compassion & learning to see beyond the rim of our own worlds & having empathy for all living things.

Got to see Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 last night. It was a fitting conclusion to the Guardians trilogy and one of the best MCU films I've seen in a while. Like always, the soundtrack was magnificent. Thank you, @jamesgunn.bsky.social and wish you all the best with the DCU.

In all seriousness Bluesky has taught me I actually want two things in a social media app: it barely works so I can’t use it all the time, and I can scroll to the end and feel done with it. Reliability and bottomless content are features everyone was dying to implement and actually both are curses

Despite the fact that we (in many cases) know better, we're inevitably going to have some security issues. If you find one, please send us an email: [email protected] If you want us to, we'll publicly credit you as a contributor! (We likely will run a bounty program in the future, just not yet.)

“does bluesky have a nudes problem??” buddy the ocean is boiling

Let's see what this is all about. /honk

🚀 Just made and launched a new thing called Firesky 👉 https://firesky.tv Watch every Bluesky post/reply stream by in real-time, filter the firehose for keywords! Guaranteed to blow up your brain

Guys, please don't let "skeets" stick The experiment in decentralized naming decisions has resulted in the worst possible term How about skoots? Can we bring back skoots? Bluesky OGs, help me out here, remember skoots?

The vibe on Twitter vs. BlueSky

Just like the repo dissecting the Twitter Algo when it dropped, me and @vickiboykis.com are gonna examine and dispel the recommender systems behind Bluesky! https://github.com/igorbrigadir/awesome-bluesky-algo

There have been requests for a less technical explanation of federation, why Bluesky, why decentralization, etc. As the one non-dev on the team, I hear you! Please like this post to give me sense of urgency and desire for a more general explainer 🦋

Maybe I’m missing it — where can I turn on MFA for bluesky from the app?

I recently went to a bunch of coffee shops including Coffee for Sasquatch in Los Angeles. The vibes were great and I love the Sasquatch piece as you enter the space. I got their seasonal Orange Vanilla Cardamom latte. It was very cardamom forward, but I liked it.

here’s my own definition of web3: user-generated authority, enabled by self-certifying web protocols. https://jaygraber.medium.com/web3-is-self-certifying-9dad77fd8d81

Coffee goes so hard when you go a day without caffeine

I recently had my first Einspanner and it was delicious. Sipping on it so that the espresso would pass through the milk and the whipped cream at the top was a wonderful sensory experience.

What’s your favorite latte? One of my recent favorites was the Mascarpone Latte from Loquat in Los Angeles. It’s made with a muscavado sugar syrup and topped with a layer of house made cheese foam and cacao nibs. It was divine.

While not the cleanest looking latte, I’m continuing to learn to make my own using my espresso machine. Experimented with a shaken peanut butter latte in the jar. Added vanilla extract and a touch of brown sugar. It was good, but felt incomplete. 🧐

Just put up a blog post with updates on what we’re up to! https://blueskyweb.xyz/blog/3-2-2023-bluesky-beta-app

This post will also make sense when the new app version releases. Hint: you can quote me on this. 👇

Listening to this gem from Circa Survive’s “Blue Sky Noise” album. 🎶

BlueSky reminds me of how I felt when I first joined Twitter in 2007 🥹 Haven’t been able to replicate that feeling elsewhere.

Me on Bluesky today:

Thanks to @jay.bsky.social for the invite. Excited to be here. 😊

just setting up my bluesky.