🌍 The internet has transformed from a diverse ecosystem to a controlled plantation dominated by tech giants. How did we get here, and what does it mean for our digital lives? #TechTakeover #DigitalMonoculture watch @mariafarrell.bsky.social from @webdirections.org Dev Summit '24

This is more important than you realize. Bluesky doesn’t downgrade links. Which means news sites will get more traffic from here than other sites. Which gives them economic reasons to post here first.

Cyberspace Movies in 1995: Silicon Valley Meets Hollywood

“Similarweb noted that Bluesky generated 38.6 million outgoing visits in November 2024, spread across a variety of news websites, while Threads generated 24.5 million referrals. However, the firm pointed out that 42% of Threads’ traffic was directing users to Instagram, not publishers’ websites.”

​Meta promises to combat misinformation in Australia using the same strategy it abandoned in the U.S. to appease Trump. ​ 🔗 www.404media.co/meta-promise...

i am only writing about tshirts now techcrunch.com/2025/03/19/b...

That’s it. Pivoting to a tshirt company… had more money coming in today than we did the last two years selling custom domains

THE SHIRTS ARE BACK IN STOCK worldwithoutcaesars.com

They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

New Product Professor Blue: Analyze your Bluesky posts blueskydirectory.com/other/profes...

I completely forgot to monitor mentions of theblue.social on Bluesky 🤷😭 #buildinpublic

You're already paying for search. Just not with money.

Fact-checking has been in the news lately. So what’s the evidence it works? Those who study misinformation are perplexed by Meta’s decision to axe 3rd-party fact-checking 🧪 @nature.com @natureportfolio.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The research community has flocked to the social-media platform Bluesky. Tell us about your experience https://go.nature.com/42fihQG

How Jay Graber Is Making Sure Bluesky Never Turns Into Elon Musk’s X www.forbes.com/sites/emilyb...

Medical Bluesky

Today, we get into the nitty-gritty details of @surf.social, a new project by @flipboard.com! It's a feed reader with #Fediverse social features, where you can build your own community newsfeed.

This morning we’re announcing Surf, a new kind of browser for a new kind of web — the open social web. Built on AT Proto, ActivityPub and RSS, you can easily create and surf custom feeds that organize people, videos, articles and podcasts around the things you care about. More at surf.social

How can you make @bsky.app profitable without enshittifying the platform? We asked CEO @jay.bsky.team about her plans for the company at #WIREDBigInterview: wired.trib.al/kFm4jPL

We're thrilled to be joined by @jay.bsky.team, CEO of @bsky.app, to hear how the company is disrupting social media: #WIREDBigInterview wrd.cm/biginterview...

@bsky.app CEO @jay.bsky.team talks about who the app is for: essentially everyone. To give users the ability and customize the experience, like it’s their own blog. #WIREDBigInterview

“I have always called them posts” - Bluesky CEO Jay Graber on calling posts… skeets watch live here: wrd.cm/biginterview... #WIREDBigInterview

NEW: Bluesky has seen massive growth in the weeks following the US election. There are 24 million users on the social media platform. With great engagement comes great responsibility, which means Bluesky CEO @jay.bsky.team has a lot to do. She sat down with WIRED to talk about it.

Your Bluesky Posts Are Probably In A Bunch of Datasets Now After a machine learning librarian released and then deleted a dataset of one million Bluesky posts, several other bigger datasets have appeared in its place—including one of almost 300 million posts. 🔗 www.404media.co/bluesky-post...

Some thoughts on this platform, that platform, and the things you carry with you. aaronfrancis.com/2024/reputat...

Tip: to get your Bluesky posts to appear underneath news stories on Techmeme, quote post the corresponding @techmeme.com post with good commentary. If it's deemed a value-add, it will be added! And to add other kinds of posts (e.g. posts from your blog) use this form: techmeme.com/tip

Enter your BlueSky handle to generate a social receipt for your week’s activity. bskypt.vercel.app

✨ It’s here: BlueskyRoast.com Let AI roast your Bluesky profile – 100% free, 200% fun! Includes: - Your core topics & archetype - Dating app bio - If you were an AI model & more! Give it a try and let me know what you think – RTs appreciated 🙏🏽

Excited to release this to the world - @skydigest.app helps you keep up with trending news in your Bluesky network. Remember Nuzzel for Twitter? The aim is to do the same thing here. I've got a giant backlog of ideas and performance improvements planned, and would love feedback! skydigest.app

blueskyroast.com Let our AI analyze your posts, roast your takes, and reveal what your posting history says about you

Why Bluesky might be your next website traffic goldmine

Discover a world of tools that can totally change your Bluesky experience. From super sleek clients to smart automation - create your dream digital space!

Kat Tenbarge interviewed me about the migration to Bluesky among journalists. It's easy to see why it's happening. It's easier to find news, harder to spread disinfo, trolls don't drown out the good content, and links are not deprioritized. It's a breath of fresh air for journalism to thrive in.

1/ With more users joining Bluesky, we know how important it is to identify which accounts are real. Users deserve confidence that the accounts they interact with are authentic. Sharing some details about our impersonation policy 🧵

Bluesky is cracking down on parody accounts and impersonators

What power have you got? Where did you get it from? In whose interests do you use it? To whom are you accountable? How do we get rid of you? #webdirectionsnext

Someone Made a Dataset of One Million Bluesky Posts for 'Machine Learning Research'

Traffic from Bluesky's @bsky.app to @theguardian.com is already 2x that of Threads In its first week on the platform & with 300k followers, Bluesky traffic from @theguardian.com posts is already higher than it was from TwX in any week in 2024, where the account had 10.8m followers, but🧵

Brief update on our ongoing efforts to allow users to specify consent (or not) for AI training: 🧵

Zuckerberg appears genuinely alarmed by the rapid growth of Bluesky.

Bluesky is under scrutiny by the EU for violating the Digital Services Act (DSA) by not disclosing user numbers and legal establishment.

Or they move over to Bluesky, and get even more flexible options

Bluesky has the edge over Threads to be the new Twitter as people leave X. archive.is/db7ow#select...

Bluesky is growing so fast it's racing to get hold of more servers, its COO Rose Wang says

Bluesky, Smiling at Me

X users jump to Bluesky - but what is it and who owns it?