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Bluesky CEO, Jay Graber, has announced the imminent introduction of comprehensive hashtag support on the emerging platform, signalling the next evolution in user engagement that has boosted its profile as one of the strongest emerging rivals to billionaire Elon Musk's X. In a recent interview on the Techmeme Ride Home Podcast, Graber emphasised the logical progression of "linkifying" hashtags to enhance the user experience.The new platform, having recently opened its virtual doors, is gaining traction with nearly 5…

The panel on stage at the Knight Foundation’s Informed event is Elon Musk’s nightmare blunt rotation: Techdirt editor Mike Masnick, Twitter’s former safety lead Yoel Roth, and Bluesky CEO Jay Graber, who have come together to discuss content moderation in the fediverse. It’s been more than a year since Musk showed up at Twitter HQ with a literal sink in tow, but many social media users are still a bit nomadic, floating among various emerging platforms. And if a user made the choice to leave Twitter in the Musk era,…

If 2023 was the year X, formerly known as Twitter, slid into disrepair, then perhaps 2024 will be the year that a new alternative rises to take its place. Among those touted as potential X replacements is Bluesky, a social media network that was, in fact, spun out of Twitter in 2021. The Bluesky project actually dates back to 2019, when cofounder and once-Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey unveiled the idea for a decentralized social network on Twitter. The principle behind decentralization would allow social media to act more like…

As usual, I have a few Fast Company technology stories to recommend:The moment Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter became official, on October 27, 2022, he began trashing his new toy. And for millions of Twitterphiles, the downsides of a social network controlled by a single erratic billionaire became obvious.But well before Musk plunked down his $44 million, people who’d thought deeply about social networking and its role in society were concerned about Twitter’s centralization. Among them was the company’s cofounder, Jack…

Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey-backed Bluesky is facing ongoing challenges with its moderation efforts as users express their intention to leave the platform in protest due to its failure to identify and flag offensive slurs used in account usernames. A number of users, particularly those from Black communities, are disappointed with Blue Sky's lack of an apology for allowing racial slurs to bypass their moderation tools, despite such slurs being in violation of the platform's community guidelines. Users brought attention…