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Bluesky posts are finally open to the public
(www.theverge.com)
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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