Bluesky replies will now default to appear by “hotness” in a contentious update to the social media platform. Announced this week as part of the app’s 1.95 software update, post replies will now appear as “hot replies first”, which is the new default setting. “With this release, you can now display replies by “hotness,” which…
In a long-anticipated Senate vote, Australian is banning children under 16 years old from using social media. It is the world’s strictest law protecting young people from the effects of social media. “Social media is doing harm to our kids and I’m calling time on it,” Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said in a press conference…
File this under nice problems to have: Bluesky is growing like gangbusters. But hiding beneath that nice problem is a whole viper pit of nasty ones, as any study of Twitter history will tell you. The Twitter-like social media underdog (or, given its logo, under-butterfly) zipped past the 20 million-user mark last week, with more…
Bluesky is already facing its first major AI scrape, despite the stance of its owners that it will never train generative AI on user data. Reported by 404Media on Nov. 26, one million public Bluesky posts — complete with identifying user information — were crawled and then uploaded to AI company Hugging Face. The dataset…
More users means more problems, and social media wunderkind Bluesky is no exception. On Monday, Bluesky announced new moderation efforts to address a growth in concerning user content amid its incredible growth. In an exclusive with Platformer, Bluesky explained that it would be quadrupling its content moderation team, currently a 25-person contracted workforce, in order…
More than 13 million users have joined the ranks of the latest buzzy social media platform Bluesky, the self-proclaimed “billionaire-proof” micro-blog that is taking on Elon Musk’s X. Since the presidential election — and Musk’s hard right turn — X users have begun leaving the platform en masse, harkening back to the early days of…
Bluesky, the formerly Jack Dorsey-affiliated, decentralized answer to Elon Musk’s X is closing the gap with Threads at breakneck speed. The browser version of Bluesky surpassed Threads in total usage weeks ago, but now the Bluesky app has exploded to 3.5 million daily active users, putting it just 1.5 times behind Meta’s Threads — an…
Audio Events on LinkedIn will soon be no more. In an update published this week, LinkedIn announced that it would be combining Audio Events with LinkedIn Live, effectively shutting down the audio-only streaming feature. SEE ALSO: LinkedIn is using your data to train AI. Here’s how to turn it off. According to the update, LinkedIn…
Bluesky has been experiencing nonstop growth ever since election day. The alternative social media platform is starting to stand out above all of the others as users flee Elon Musk’s X, formerly known as Twitter, due to changes at X as well as Musk’s role in the incoming Trump administration. On Tuesday, Bluesky announced that…
Bluesky is still in its infancy, but the social media platform is growing fast. And it might already be a more engaging place to post than Elon Musk‘s X. In case you missed it, Bluesky’s growth has skyrocketed since the election. It shot to the top of the App Store and nearly doubled in growth…