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Bluesky rolled out several new “anti-toxicity” features to differentiate itself even more from traditional social media, especially its former benefactor, X.
The Big Picture: Social media isn’t really known as a place for positive, healthy interactions with strangers (just look at any comments section), so any platform that can figure out how to make self-expression online safer, mentally and emotionally, could be refreshing for new users.
Between the Lines: Bluesky hopes giving users more power over what content they see on their feeds will make the platform a happier place.
- Version 1.90 of the platform allows users to detach their posts from another user’s quote of it, hide replies, only receive notifications from people they follow, and limit what lists they can be added to.
- It also won’t show every reply in a user’s Following feed; instead, only surfacing interactions between two or more users, which promotes conversation.
- It also plans on introducing a Community Notes-like feature to help users label disinformation — a tradeoff for allowing people to detach their posts from quotes.
Closing Thoughts: Bluesky, which has 6.2 million users, is still small but growing in popularity for users who find X toxic and don’t want to be on yet another Meta-run platform with Threads. If the features do make social media a more user-friendly experience, Bluesky may finally break out as the open-source alternative it’s always billed itself as.
Go Deeper: People don’t really want a digital town square; they want a safe place to share ideas with a like-minded community.
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