Bluesky posts are finally open to the public::Bluesky remains an invite-only decentralized Twitter alternative, but now, you don’t need to be logged in to be able to see posts on the platform. The app has a new logo, too.

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[–] [B] 6 points 2 years ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


If you want to prevent people who aren’t logged in from seeing your posts, you can “discourage” that by clicking a toggle in settings.

But Bluesky notes that “other apps may not honor this request” and that the toggle doesn’t make your account private.

Previously, the app’s logo was a blue sky with clouds, but “early on, we noticed that people were organically using the butterfly emoji 🦋 to indicate their Bluesky handles,” Graber says in the blog post.

And, as spotted by my colleague Parker Ortolani, the app has a fun animation that will feel familiar to fans of Twitter.

With the increasing momentum behind ActivityPub — including the very public support from Meta’s Threads — I’ve worried that Bluesky, which is based on its own AT Protocol, might get left behind.

But every time I hop over to my Bluesky account, it seems like people are having a lot of fun — the platform seems to be growing quickly, too — so hopefully the protocols can co-exist and usher in a fediverse future.


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