Mon 26 June 2023:
Jack Dorsey-backed Twitter rival Bluesky has put up several ideas for new safety and moderation tools, including reply limits and user lists, on which the company is currently working.
The company also introduced labeling, moderation controls, and hashtags in addition to user lists and reply features.
While labeling and moderation controls will concentrate on moderator services and how they can address issues that tiny communities can’t, the company claims that user lists and reply controls can be utilized for community-driven moderation.
The third tool, hashtags, won’t be directly related to moderation, but as per the company, it could have a big impact on customising what users see.
“The tooling we’re building for moderation tries to take into consideration how social spaces are formed and shaped through communities,” Bluesky said in a blogpost.
The invite-only Bluesky, available on Android, offers a host of new features and was initially launched to iOS users in February in a closed beta.
The app offers a simplified user interface where you can click a plus button to create a post of 256 characters, which can include photos. In May, Bluesky crossed more than 1,00,000 users with a total of 3.19 million posts.
What is Bluesky?
It is a new social network for microblogging same to Twitter, in which its users post different kinds of updates posts on their timelines. However, in the new app, there are no hashtags or options to message directly to other users.
The Bluesky was created independently of Twitter when Jack Dorsey was its CEO. However, it was funded by the company until it became independent in February last year.
Dorsey introduced his idea in a Tweet back in 2019, saying it also plans to “build an open community around it, inclusive of companies [and] organisations, researchers, civil society leaders.” Still, he warned, “this isn’t going to happen overnight.”
Dorsey said last year: “The biggest issue and my biggest regret is that [Twitter] became a company.”
He later clarified that “if a service was a protocol, it can’t be owned by a state or company.”
Some of the important public figures are opting for Bluesky after Musk’s new direction.
Data.ai reported that Bluesky has been downloaded more than 375,000 times from the Apple App Store and the waitlist continues to be flooded with signup requests.
The number of downloads on Google Play can be seen more than 100,000 times.
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