Social Media and its influence

Bluesky is taking a big leap toward federating. On Thursday, the social network announced that it is opening up early access for users and developers who want to self-host their data. While this isn’t true federation yet, the company plans to open up federation to larger servers with even more users in its next phase. When the dust settles, anyone can (in theory) create their own server with their own rules on Bluesky’s AT Protocol. 

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Debatte auf Mastodon und GitHub: Wie genau Bluesky und das Fediverse verbinden?
Schon bald könnte es eine Verbindung zwischen zwei der wichtigsten Twitter-Alternativen geben. Das begrüßen vor allem auf Mastodon nicht alle.

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Decentralized social network Bluesky is rolling out a new in-app video and music player for links, along with a new “hide post” feature. The new additions bring Bluesky’s user experience closer to X (Twitter).

The new video and music player works with YouTube, SoundCloud, Spotify and Twitch embeds. Unlike on X, where autoplay on videos is the default setting, Bluesky’s in-app player won’t autoplay content. If users want to watch or listen to the content, they will have to trigger it with a tap.

As for the new “hide post” feature, you can click on it if there’s something you don’t want to see again. The post will be removed from your feeds and “put behind a mask if you visit it directly,” Bluesky says.

L’interface mobile ne posera aucun problème aux habitués de Twitter. Néanmoins, quelques particularités sont visibles quand il s’agit de configurer votre compte Bluesky. Il est possible de gérer différents paramètres au sein de deux espaces distincts. Le premier volet s’affiche en cliquant sur le menu burger en haut à gauche de votre écran. Une barre de navigation latérale apparaît alors, comme sur X. Elle présente votre profil, accompagné des options de recherche, de vos notifications, de vos feeds, de votre profil, de votre modération et de vos paramètres.

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Wie Jack Dorsey ein zweites Twitter baut
Elon Musk verschreckt Nutzer seiner Plattform X. Ausgerechnet eine von Twitter-Mitgründer Jack Dorsey vorangetriebene Alternative sorgt nun für Furore. Dabei ist dort nicht jeder willkommen.

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Bluesky, the Twitter alternative backed by Twitter co-founder and CEO Jack Dorsey, has hit the App Store and more testers are gaining access. Though the app is still only available as an invite-only beta, its App Store arrival signals that a public launch could be nearing.

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People on Bluesky and Mastodon are fighting over how to bridge the two decentralized social networks, and whether there should even be a bridge at all. Behind the snarky GitHub comments, these coding conflicts aren’t frivolous — in fact, they could shape the future of the internet.

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Bluesky-CEO erteilt Anzeigen eine Absage und setzt auf Community-Moderation
In einem Interview hat Jay Graber, Chefin von Bluesky, sich zu Plänen nach der Öffnung des Netzes geäußert. Es soll gratis und als Föderation bestehen bleiben.

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X rival and social media platform Bluesky now boasts over 2 million users, as announced by the team on Thursday. A year after its creation, the Jack Dorsey-backed app marked the milestone while detailing its pending plan of creating a "a truly open social network" — and adding a major feature from Twitter.

Bluesky, a decentralized social media app, is set to add a public web interface, which means users will be able to view posts without being logged in on an account — Bluesky currently still requires an invite code to sign up to its platform. It's a replication of what was once a main feature of Twitter/X, and something that owner Elon Musk has gone back and forth on.

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Bluesky is a decentralized, text-based social media platform. We'll get into what exactly that means in a second, but for all intents and purposes, think of it as a social network that offers many of the same core features as Twitter but with the curated communities of platforms like Discord or Mastodon. 

You can create short text posts (up to 300 characters) commonly referred to as "skeets," share other people's posts, post photos and reply to other users. Like Twitter, messages posted to BlueSky show up on a newsfeed that your followers and other users can see. Posts can be replied to, liked, shared, reported or shared via other apps. 

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What is Bluesky?
Bluesky is a "decentralized" social media platform backed by former Twitter CEO and founder Jack Dorsey. It's led by CEO Jay Graber, who was chosen by pre-Musk Twitter at least in part thanks to her background as a crypto developer, according to CoinDesk(opens in a new tab). It was meant to function a bit like Mastodon, another Twitter alternative, with its federated universe of individual servers that users can traverse. But Bluesky is very new, and those separations between communities that ended up working against Mastodon — since many users found them confusing(opens in a new tab) — have basically not been built yet.

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Don’t look now, Elon Musk, but Twitter founder Jack Dorsey is about to launch a public test version of a new social media app.

The app, Bluesky, is gearing up for a test run just after Musk plunked down $44 billion to buy Twitter. It already has a waiting list of users waiting to try out the app’s beta version.

It’s not yet clear what Bluesky will eventually look like or how it will function, but it has been noted as a rival to Twitter.

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