Bluesky Headlines

The Next Web

Bluesky launched group chats and outlined a pivot to community features amid slowing growth.

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The Verge

The Verge reports on Bluesky's new group chat feature supporting up to 50 people and upcoming communities.

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Gizmodo

Bluesky will introduce communities feature with public, invite-only, and private options, similar to subreddits.

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TechCrunch

Bluesky launched group chats for up to 50 people and announced a strategic shift towards community features.

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Engadget

Bluesky's head of product announces communities feature coming this year, similar to subreddits.

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The Verge

Bluesky announces a new 'communities' feature, functioning as smaller spaces built on the AT Protocol, set to launch this year.

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CNBC

Bluesky COO argues teen social media bans may entrench Big Tech dominance, advocating for regulation that protects smaller players.

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The Verge

Bluesky COO Rose Wang tells CNBC the company is moving away from the 'public square' model and is inspired by Reddit, focusing on video parity.

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eMarketer

Analysis of Bluesky's declining engagement and pivot towards Reddit-style communities, with implications for brands.

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The Press (thepress.net)

An article analyzing Bluesky's strategy, suggesting it aims to emulate Reddit's community model rather than being a direct Twitter competitor.

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City A.M.

An article on Bluesky's strategy to challenge X and Meta, featuring comments from COO Rose Wang about open protocols and community-driven growth.

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Yahoo Tech

Bluesky COO Rose Wang criticizes X and Facebook at SXSW London, promoting Bluesky's open social model.

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The Hollywood Reporter

Coverage of Bluesky COO Rose Wang's SXSW London talk, where she criticized X and Facebook and discussed Bluesky's growth and vision.

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TechCrunch

Bluesky integrates with Standard.site to allow long-form articles, expanding beyond microblogging, as a competitor to X's Articles feature.

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heise online

Russian actors hijack Bluesky accounts to spread propaganda, according to researchers and the company.

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heise online

A new official WordPress plugin allows blogs to connect directly to the Bluesky protocol, enabling cross-posting and replies.

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The Independent

Russian hackers hijack hundreds of Bluesky accounts to post disinformation, Bluesky and researchers say.

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The Verge

Bluesky reports that Russian hackers are hijacking accounts to spread disinformation, as detailed by The New York Times.

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Platformer

The article examines recent usage data from Apptopia showing declines in daily active users for Bluesky, Threads, and X, questioning the health of these text-based social networks.

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DataCenterDynamics

A fiber cut causes a partial Bluesky outage while the platform experiences record traffic from users leaving X.

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Dave Karpf's Substack

An opinion piece arguing that Bluesky is like a record store - a niche cultural institution, not a dominant social network.

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TechCrunch

Indigo is a new app that unifies Bluesky and Mastodon feeds, allowing cross-posting and a unified timeline.

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Bluesky

Bluesky provides an update on service stability after DDoS attack, no data breach found.

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TechCrunch

Bluesky confirms a sophisticated DDoS attack caused continued app outages, with no evidence of data breach.

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The Verge

Bluesky experiences a DDoS attack causing intermittent service interruptions, with no data breach.

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