Bluesky will get a brand new brand. Ricardo Jimenez/Getty Photographs
Bluesky has simply made it simpler for anybody to take a look at particular posts. Courtesy of the most recent replace to the web site and app, now you can view Bluesky posts with out being logged in or utilizing an account. The brand new functionality rolled out late final week, in keeping with a blog post from Bluesky CEO Jay Graber.
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The one limitation is that you could’t simply browse completely different profiles and posts from the house web page with out being logged in. It’s essential to know the precise profile title or publish hyperlink that you just wish to see. Nevertheless, you possibly can seek for a selected person by full title or deal with to view their profile and all their posts.
With the brand new choice, all posts are accessible to anybody. Don’t need your posts to be seen by the general public? Head to the Moderation tab on the web site or within the app and activate the swap for “Discourage apps from displaying my account to logged-out customers.” Doing so will maintain your profile and posts seen solely to logged-in Bluesky customers; nonetheless, different apps might not respect this setting, in keeping with the swap’s description.
A brand new beta function additionally permits you to disguise a person publish when you do not wish to see it once more. Out there within the ellipsis icon menu, the “Conceal Publish” command will take away it out of your feeds and put a masks behind it when you go to it instantly by a hyperlink.
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With Bluesky nonetheless out there solely by invitation or waitlist, the builders want a method to assist individuals expertise it with out an account. Although you possibly can’t like, repost, or reply to a publish with out being logged in, you possibly can nonetheless totally learn a publish and entry any hyperlinks it accommodates. Plus, you possibly can translate the publish to a different language, copy the textual content of the publish, and replica any hyperlinks within the publish.
And there is extra on faucet for Bluesky customers. There’s now an embedded video and music participant for the web site and app that may play video or audio from such providers as YouTube, SoundCloud, Spotify, and Twitch through a hyperlink. Simply click on or faucet the Play button to look at or hear.
Lastly, Bluesky has a brand new brand, specifically a blue butterfly. Why a butterfly? In his publish, Graber known as it a logo of change and transformation.
“Early on, we seen that folks have been organically utilizing the butterfly emoji to point their Bluesky handles,” Graber stated. “We cherished it, and adopted it because it unfold. Like a butterfly rising from its chrysalis, we’re beginning to open up. Posts on Bluesky have been public from the beginning by the open protocol, however in the present day we’re making them publicly accessible by the app. We’re unfolding a bit bit at a time, and are excited to carry you alongside on this journey of metamorphosis!”
