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! 🥳

v1.123 is live! You can now attach up to 10 photos in posts. We listened to your feedback and redesigned the photo carousel. It only appears for posts with at least 5 photos. Swipe through to learn more.

Pssst: We bumped the video upload limit from 100MB to 300MB to make posting bigger videos easier.

ICYMI: You can now go live on Bluesky with YouTube, Substack and beehiiv, in addition to the already-supported platforms: Twitch, Streamplace and Bluecast Add your stream link and a red ring appears on your avatar, so your followers know the moment you’re on. 🧵

v1.122 is rolling out today, featuring a better way to discover and share articles, blog posts and newsletters across the Atmosphere via new, dynamic Standard.site link cards. 🧵

THE INTERNET FOR $600: This social media app now boasts at least 200 "Jeopardy!" contestants and champions (including one host).

Extremely cool job alert!

Does wild yeast collected by Bluesky users make butterfly-shaped bread? Find out in the #Breadsky feed! bsky.app/profile/did:...

Keep it private! We’re adding more ways to connect with other Atmosphere apps. You can now launch Germ’s E2E encrypted messaging from Bluesky profiles. Check out @germnetwork.com for more.

v1.121 is live! We've increased the quality of photos in posts by doubling the max file size to 2MB and the resolution limit to 4000x4000. Plus, posts with multiple photos now appear in a carousel so you can show off your photography in all its glory.

Read David Imel’s summary of ATmosphereConf, a recent gathering of folks building on the AT Protocol: “this conference is nerdy, it’s niche, and most of the people here think they might just save the internet” davidimel.substack.com/p/bluesky-is...