Bluesky will get a brand new brand. Ricardo Jimenez/Getty Pictures
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 would be able to’t simply browse totally different profiles and posts from the house web page with out being logged in. It’s good to know the precise profile identify or put up hyperlink that you just need to see. Nonetheless, you possibly can seek for a specific consumer by full identify or deal with to view their profile and all their posts.
With the brand new possibility, 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 change for “Discourage apps from exhibiting my account to logged-out customers.” Doing so will hold your profile and posts seen solely to logged-in Bluesky customers; nevertheless, different apps might not respect this setting, in keeping with the change’s description.
A brand new beta function additionally means that you can disguise a person put up in the event you do not need to see it once more. Accessible within the ellipsis icon menu, the “Conceal Publish” command will take away it out of your feeds and put a masks behind it in the event you go to it instantly by means of a hyperlink.
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With Bluesky nonetheless obtainable solely by means of invitation or waitlist, the builders want a means to assist folks expertise it with out an account. Although you possibly can’t like, repost, or reply to a put up with out being logged in, you possibly can nonetheless absolutely learn a put up and entry any hyperlinks it comprises. Plus, you possibly can translate the put up to a different language, copy the textual content of the put up, and duplicate any hyperlinks within the put up.
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 companies as YouTube, SoundCloud, Spotify, and Twitch by way of a hyperlink. Simply click on or faucet the Plus button to look at or hear.
Lastly, Bluesky has a brand new brand, particularly a blue butterfly. Why a butterfly? In his put up, Graber referred to as it an emblem of change and transformation.
“Early on, we observed that individuals have been organically utilizing the butterfly emoji to point their Bluesky handles,” Graber stated. “We liked 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 means of the open protocol, however in the present day we’re making them publicly accessible by means of the app. We’re unfolding a bit bit at a time, and are excited to carry you alongside on this journey of metamorphosis!”