bluesky

• Rival apps X, Bluesky are both launching their own takes on TikTok
• Flipboard’s new app unites Bluesky, Threads, and other decentralized social networks

  Flipboard has launched Surf, an app that allows users to combine feeds from across decentralized social networks like Bluesky and Threads.

  
• Threads follows Bluesky’s lead by showing more posts from accounts you follow

  Threads is responding to Bluesky's massive growth by showing users more content from accounts they actually follow.

  
• As X fumbles, Bluesky announces $15 million raise and plans for creator monetization

  Elon Musk's dumpster fire of a site has seen yet another mass exodus this month after introducing two much-hated changes: first, it's nuking the block feature by allowing users you've blocked to see your posts anyway, for some reason; and second, it changed its TOS so all material uploaded to X—videos, posts, photos, art, writing samples, anything—is now automatically licensed "for use with and training of our machine learning and artificial intelligence models, whether generative or another type."

  
• After leaving the Bluesky board, Jack Dorsey sounds off on the Twitter rival he backed
• Bluesky soars to 4.8 million users, shows off customization with Taylor Swift-free Super Bowl feed
• Bluesky signups increase tenfold as Elon Musk moves to ban X’s block function
• Decentralized Twitter alternative Bluesky rolls out an optional Discover feed
• Bluesky is a social platform backed by Twitter Co-Founder Jack Dorsey. It just hit the App Store.
• Under new leader Parag Agrawal, Twitter eyes decentralized social media