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Bluesky’s Ozone tool revolutionizes content moderation, giving users control like never before
15Mar By adminNo Comments
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Bluesky’s Ozone tool revolutionizes content moderation, giving users control like never before

[ad_1] Bluesky, a decentralized social media platform aiming to rival existing giants like billionaire Elon Musk-owned X, has unveiled Ozone, a groundbreaking tool designed to empower users with unprecedented control over content moderation. Ozone enables individuals and teams to collaboratively review and label content on the network, thereby enhancing the user experience by allowing for tailored moderation services.With the introduction of Ozone, Bluesky is set to revolutionize the concept of content moderation by opening up the platform to independent moderation services. Users will soon have the ability to run their own moderation services, supplementing Bluesky's default moderation with additional filters and controls. This approach aims to create a customizable ecosystem where use...
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X and Threads rival Bluesky to roll out full hashtag support and user-controlled content
15Feb By adminNo Comments
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X and Threads rival Bluesky to roll out full hashtag support and user-controlled content

[ad_1] Bluesky CEO, Jay Graber, has announced the imminent introduction of comprehensive hashtag support on the emerging platform, signalling the next evolution in user engagement that has boosted its profile as one of the strongest emerging rivals to billionaire Elon Musk's X. In a recent interview on the Techmeme Ride Home Podcast, Graber emphasised the logical progression of "linkifying" hashtags to enhance the user experience.The new platform, having recently opened its virtual doors, is gaining traction with nearly 5 million users onboarded. Now, Graber has shared exciting developments, revealing plans for the rollout of moderation services. This advancement aims to empower third-party services, enabling them to contribute to the network by building labelers or annotators, The Verg...
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Twitter Co-Founder Jack Dorsey’s Bluesky Opens Social Network to Everyone
7Feb By adminNo Comments
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Twitter Co-Founder Jack Dorsey’s Bluesky Opens Social Network to Everyone

[ad_1] Bluesky, the decentralized social network that was hatched by former Twitter Chief Executive Officer Jack Dorsey, is expanding its app to all interested users, abandoning an invite-only system that the service used to help regulate growth for the past year.The social network opened to the public last February, and now claims 3 million users, but Bluesky only allowed new users via an invite code to ensure the technology supporting the network could handle the traffic.  Another key aspect of Bluesky, known as “federation,” is also coming at the end of February, said Jay Graber, Bluesky's CEO. Federation is a central part of Bluesky's mission, which will allow anyone to create their own social network using Bluesky's technology protocol. Those various networks will be interoperable,...
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Bluesky update 1.61 is here! In-app video and music player added, ‘Hide post’ feature arrives too
28Dec By adminNo Comments
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Bluesky update 1.61 is here! In-app video and music player added, ‘Hide post’ feature arrives too

[ad_1] Ahead of the new year, the popular decentralized social media platform Bluesky has rolled out a new update. The Bluesky update 1.61 comes less than a week after the previous update which redesigned the logo to a butterfly and made the posts public for even those who did not have an account on the platform. Now, with the new update, Bluesky has added a new in-app video and music player for links. This player will function like the native player on X (formerly Twitter) where users do not have to leave the platform to play a YouTube video and can instead watch it on the platform. Alongside, Bluesky has also added a ‘Hide Post' feature that allows users to hide the posts they do not want to see. Bluesky announced the update in a post from its official handle, and said, “App Version 1...
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Bluesky adds new safety tools to moderate content; know all about it
2Dec By adminNo Comments
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Bluesky adds new safety tools to moderate content; know all about it

[ad_1] Bluesky, the decentralized social media platform and X (formerly Twitter) rival has introduced some new safety tools to the platform to better moderate the content. Alongside, it has also added new features for users to moderate who can see their posts and interact with them. This new set of tools was introduced after Bluesky faced criticism for not banning a user who made death threats or members who were creating usernames with racial slurs in them. Interestingly, the platform is still in private beta testing and has not opened to the general public.According to a report by TechCrunch, Bluesky has introduced these as “more advanced automated tooling” which will flag any content that violates its Community Guidelines. But these will not be auto-deleted, or the poster be banned. ...
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X rival Bluesky crosses 2mn users! Know its upcoming plans
17Nov By adminNo Comments
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X rival Bluesky crosses 2mn users! Know its upcoming plans

[ad_1] Bluesky, a decentralized social network app was launched this year in February (a simplified portal was initially released in October 2022) as an alternative to X (formerly Twitter). The app has seen massive growth over the months and finally, the platform has crossed 2 million users which is a huge milestone. Going forward, the app has big plans to expand its user base by making the platform available on federation networks, bringing an end to a long period of the invite-only system. Know more here.Bluesky users milestoneAccording to The Verge report, the Twitter-like social network app has crossed 2 million users just after 2 months of hitting 1 million app audience. The app is also planning to make it available on different platforms by launching a web interface that will allo...
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Bluesky gets its 1st third-party app! Graysky to launch soon on iOS and Android with new features
14Oct By adminNo Comments
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Bluesky gets its 1st third-party app! Graysky to launch soon on iOS and Android with new features

[ad_1] Bluesky, the decentralized X-rival (formerly Twitter) social media platform is all set to get its first third-party app. The platform, which continues to be invite-only, has more than 1.5 million users and can be accessed through its web client or its apps for iOS and Android. However, the Jack Dorsey-led social network continues to be in private beta and the official app lacks certain features that can make the platform more fun. Following the principles of decentralization, Bluesky offered its API to developers who'd like to build their own third-party apps where they can also offer new and improved features and a different user interface. While several such apps are currently in the development and testing stage, Graysky has become the first third-party Bluesky app to be deplo...
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