Bluesky: 📢 1.57 Logged-out visibility Next week the Bluesky app and website will enable logged-out viewing. If you dont want Bluesky to show your content, you can select this new option in the Moderation screen. Remember Bluesky is a public network. This setting only adds friction to seeing your posts. 3/4

📢 1.57 is now rolling out! This release includes the ability to set who can reply to your posts, and a couple of performance improvements and bug fixes. Read on for more details! 1/4

📢 1.57 Thread Reply Controls When you compose a post, you can now choose who is allowed to reply to your posts. Options include nobody, mentioned users, followed users, and members of lists you’ve created. 2/4

📢 1.57 Logged-out visibility Next week the Bluesky app and website will enable logged-out viewing. If you dont want Bluesky to show your content, you can select this new option in the Moderation screen. Remember Bluesky is a public network. This setting only adds friction to seeing your posts. 3/4

📢 1.57 Additional Updates • Replies to blocked users will no longer show in your feeds • Unread notifications now behave a little better • User lists can now be muted/unmuted or blocked/unblocked like moderation lists • Moderation labels on quoted posts correctly apply to the quote now 4/4

All great but we definitely need functioning hashtags. Game changer.

Yes, that is really what will allow this to become my refuge from X Island that continues its downward spiral into darkness.

Agreed.

Hashtags technically already exists but isn't fully implemented in the official client. You can try Graysky which has support for them

But nobody I know is there so there is no point for Graysky for me ;) I just hope they will be implemente it at some point.

Graysky is a 3rd party client for this site, FYI

I'm sorry I am only doing this for fun. I don't even know what you mean by that. Not a very tech savvy person.

Graysky is still Bluesky via a different app

Keep an eye on github.com/bluesky-soci... to know when the PR for hashtag support is made.

why would hashtags be a game changer? i get that theyre efficient but are they even all that popular anymore

Because otherwise it is hard to follow a convo. Like when there is a show on Tv for example. The feed feature is not the solution.

We have feeds?

Yes, but those are not the same. Sometimes I see an interesting Hashtag in a friend's post and want to know more. Or I wanna follow an event. Finding the right feed and keep a conversation flowing is not working for me

a tagging system similar to tumblr's is in the works

Ooo do we have confirmation of this? I hope its true I love tumblr’s system

Next month - Putting together an accessibility council, assigning dev support to the council Please and thank you. Or I'm gonna be forced to learn the development stack you use and it will be the topic of every meeting.

I do not care about your futile needs, worm

Kinky

What‘s about direct messages?

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(completely unofficial) Bluesky FAQ thread 🤔🧵 Q: DMs? 📨 A: According to this roadmap blog post, encrypted DMs will be implemented after they have completed federation on the network. So hopefully sometime next year 🤞 atproto.com/blog/2023-pr...

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(completely unofficial) Bluesky FAQ thread 🤔🧵 Q: DMs? 📨 A: According to this roadmap blog post, encrypted DMs will be implemented after they have completed federation on the network. So hopefully sometime next year 🤞 atproto.com/blog/2023-pr...

Q: GIFs? ✨ A: GIFs are on the roadmap for the official Bluesky app: github.com/bluesky-soci... github.com/bluesky-soci... For now GIF support is available in some third-party apps such as: 🔹 @graysky.app (iOS & Android) 🔹 @deck.blue (web) 🔹 @skeetsapp.com (iOS in beta) 🔗 graysky.app 🔗 deck.blue

GIFs · Issue #1047 · bluesky-social/social-appgithub.com Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. We need GIFs to communicate effectively in an engaging and vibrant way - they are the linguistic currency of this generation and a pla...

Q: iPad app? A: While the Bluesky team hopefully plan for an iPad-native version of the official app, have a look at @graysky.app and @skeetsapp.com (in beta) 🔗 graysky.app

Graysky - a bluesky clientgraysky.app Experience a whole different skyline.

Q: Mute words? 🤫 A: Being able to mute words is on the roadmap: github.com/bluesky-soci...

Add feature to mute words on the skyline · Issue #670 · bluesky-social/social-appgithub.com Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. There are some topics you just want to ignore, and muted words is a simple mechanism for doing that. Describe the solution you'd like ...

Q: Videos? 🎥 A: Uploading video posts is on the roadmap: github.com/bluesky-soci... github.com/bluesky-soci...

Audio/Video Post Support · Issue #1052 · bluesky-social/social-appgithub.com Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. Audio/Video posts are a staple of modern social media, and the lack of support for audio/video posts, while absolutely understandable ...

Also developer Paul Frazee said this: bsky.app/profile/pfra...

mute words are definitely on the near term list. not sure when but they’re high up

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@tokimeki.blue also support mute words and pasting images into drafts.

@tokimeki.blue works with tablet Android

by that I mean in the Google Play store

@tokimeki.blue has gif, hashtag and link support also.

Great job, hopefully GIFs and Videos being allowed in posts is to come 😊😂

On GIFs:

Q: GIFs? ✨ A: GIFs are on the roadmap for the official Bluesky app: github.com/bluesky-soci... github.com/bluesky-soci... For now GIF support is available in some third-party apps such as: 🔹 @graysky.app (iOS & Android) 🔹 @deck.blue (web) 🔹 @skeetsapp.com (iOS in beta) 🔗 graysky.app 🔗 deck.blue

GIFs · Issue #1047 · bluesky-social/social-appgithub.com Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. We need GIFs to communicate effectively in an engaging and vibrant way - they are the linguistic currency of this generation and a pla...

Please no gifs without a way to disable them. I hate the twitching, and the conversation is better when people use the language. I would happily mute all posts with gifs in them if that were an option.

This. So so much. And given the motion trigger...it should be a no brainer that have a "interact motion only" and/or "no motion ever" setting.

I just checked the links and it's already been mentioned. So I'm going to hope common sense keeps it prominent during development.

Agreed, I would definitely like to have a means of disabling gifs when they are implemented.

Me too, and I think that seems very likely

Now that would be great :-)

And lists, so I can sort my peeps.

Fr, videos would be top notch, every single thing I like showing off would be better with some movement or sound. animation, beatmaking, sound design, game dev clips... That would be a game changer.

Just give us the ability to search our own BlueSky posts, without having to use a 3rd party site. It's the only feature I miss from Twitter...

Here's the best of the 3rd party "search" tools I've found: oyin.bo/receipts/

Search Account History: on BlueSkyoyin.bo When you want to stay clear of any toxic stuff, before following someone.

Just blocked, or muted too?

re: not showing in timeline