Update: most of the apparent lift is fake, unfortunately.
Looks like the new browser is pre-loading the links before the user sees them. I’ll update when we know more.
Is it possible to build a brand new social media from scratch in the shadow of Meta, Snap, Tiktok and their billions of users? @bluesky is trying, going from 0 to 38m users on a relative shoestring. Hear all about it from @iamrosewang here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
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Concerned you're missing posts by a favorite person or organization on Bluesky Social? Here's how to set up alerts / notifications to catch every post and reply without fail: askdavetaylor.com/enable-fav…#bluesky@bluesky#socmed
"If we want to protect children, we should be fighting for privacy laws, protecting encryption, and learning from Bluesky's model, where they allow third party algorithmic feeds and moderation tools." washingtonpost.com/politics/…
With legal challenges to this law pending, we cannot justify building the expensive required infrastructure.
For now, we have made the difficult decision to block access in Mississippi.
To learn more, read our blog post: bsky.social/about/blog/08-22…
Unfortunately, Bluesky is unavailable in Mississippi right now, due to a new state law that requires age verification for all users.
While intended for child safety, we think this law poses broader challenges & creates significant barriers that limit free speech & harm smaller platforms like ours.
“For every single professional use that scientists used to use Twitter for, Twitter is much worse now than it used to be, and Bluesky is better that Twitter currently is.”
(Link in reply because, as we know, X is terrible.)