Bluesky

👋 Bluesky is an open social network that gives creators independence from platforms, developers the freedom to build, and users a choice in their experience. We're so excited to have you here! We share Bluesky updates & news from this account. A quick orientation thread: 🧵✨

Another day, another million new people have joined Bluesky! 18M users? 🙂‍↔️ 18M friends 🙂‍↕️

this is how it feels to reach 30 MILLION users!!!

me watching Bluesky's user count grow by another million in a day hello and welcome to all 19M of you! 🥳

Welcome to the ONLY event about Apple happening today, as far as we know. We'll be running this as an AMAAA (Ask Me Anything About Apples). Ask your biggest Apple questions in the replies to this post and one of our Apple Geniuses will be with you shortly. 🍎

Not to brag, but ... we snagged a couple of passes to today’s Apple event. Stay tuned for our take on all the latest and greatest Apple products.

Thread numbering is out of beta! Threaded posts are now automatically numbered, to help you follow along. Check out the automatic numbering on this thread to see it in action.

v1.132 is live! Starter Packs are one of the best ways to find new people to follow—but how do you find the Starter Packs? As of today, look for them right in the main search box. You'll see the results under the Starter Packs tab.

Now you can opt out of having your posts shown to non-followers in the Discover feed. We know not everyone wants to go viral. Sometimes you're just posting for your followers. This is one of a few updates we're working on to give you more control over your experience and help you find your people.

Big video update! You can now post videos up to 10 minutes long, and they'll upload 2–3x faster. That's on top of the recent increase in maximum file size to 300MB. We can’t wait to see what you’ll create! NOW PLAYING: "Rent Control," by @shing.bsky.social and @jayackley.bsky.social

First Bluesky user to judge the Great British Bake Off! 🍰

We apologize for yesterday’s service problems. Bluesky experienced a DDoS attack—a flood of junk traffic meant to knock servers offline—over a period of 24 hours. We have upgraded our defenses in response, and we continue to monitor the situation. Follow @status.bsky.app for any updates.

v1.130 is live! Want to follow someone for their posts but not their reposts? Now you can — turn on "Hide reposts in feeds" for any account you follow.

We’re rolling out improvements to trending topics right now! If you don’t already have it, you will in the next day or so. The new system catches more topics, identifies more posts within that topic, and serves them up faster, so you can feel more in tune with what everyone's talking about.