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Bluesky now has over 20M people!! 🎉 We've been adding over a million users per day for the last few days. To celebrate, here are 20 fun facts about Bluesky:

1. The name Bluesky was originally a placeholder for the project started by Twitter to build an open social protocol. Purely by coincidence, my mother gave me the name Lantian, which translates to "blue sky."

2. Here's an image from a presentation I gave to Twitter, representing the Twitter bird freed from a closed platform to fly in Bluesky's open ecosystem.

6. Custom feeds on Bluesky are the first implementation of algorithmic choice. Instead of using a single black-box For You algorithm, you can create and subscribe to your own. Now, there are over 50k+ custom feeds on the network! Check them out: bsky.app/feeds

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How many mushroom types can you actually use? Must start struggling after 20... I love naming systems so id love to know how many you were able to decide on.

Yeah cause hedgehogvM, does that count? Or Honey? Destroying Angel is two words so i feel like its a bad codename? Is 'cap' too generic? Do you have cap but also powdercap and fibrecap? I feel like theres a line somewhere.

I am currious if "always open to developers" will still be around after getting to be a big tech company. So far they all started with the dream of net neutratility, only to create enclosed commercial chambers. Anyways, thanks so far.

What I want is this. Say follow somebody I have followed for years now and have high respect for, Suzie. What I want to be able to do is, to manually push a button and then this happens: Every User the Suzie has blocked, the blocked users get blocked on my account also. Add it to UR list ha-ha

does this mean i can connect my Readway app to Bluesky and our community can post both to Readway and Bluesky? I'm heading into docs. i am very excited. and the reason is that i share your ideas: decentralization, community, people choosing for themselves. it is going to be a sleepless night 🖐🏼

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Hi Jay. If I promise to hang here for lots of years and lots of Blue Sky "tweets" and use the app all the time can you promise to never become a racist megalomaniac who endorses bigoted small-minded con artists? That would be a deal breaker for me.

10. The three largest countries on Bluesky are the United States, Japan, and Brazil, and these countries were early adopters since our invite-only days as well. Thank you for being here! 💙

Hi Jay and crew, I really hope you keep up with the principles you started with. For me no more X, no no more F. But what can you do about unwanted followers? Like this...

Is there an easily accessible place on the front page of the app where the guts of BlueSky's tech privacy policy can be accessed? I don't love that META and Stripe just sent me warnings for 2025 policy changes re: AI and my content. Considering a full jump to this platform...

I know that nothing is private anymore. However, I have already seen posts by developers who want to integrate AI into this platform much like Meta has with Facebook. My issue with AI is the lack of consent. I work in accounting, and security is a major concern. Will bsky become an AI platform too?

glad to hear that... why isn't there a toggle to opt out of blueskys telemetry (events.bsky.app), statsig, etc?? congrats on your well deserved success, glad your hard work finally paid off! 💙 🦋 🎉 please just don't forget where you came from! choice and privacy DO matter, and always will.

yes please please please someone to create files and folder like i had litteraly 100's while i was used to work with on Twitter ! that would be great! also i know it's coming but same for bookmarks ! last it would be great to have lists of distribution (to send spec files to spec groups) Cheers!

Does 'open' mean free in this context? Or that there will always be some way for devs to get access? I realize in the LLM-era unfortunately this is no longer something that can easily be promised, so I was hoping you could clarify. Thank you

The more I think about the underground network of mushrooms/fungi and how Bluesky has been developed, the more I see how brilliant this idea was! #kudos 🍄💞

That’s too cool! I love the amount of mushroom buddies I’m connecting with here. I just shared another one to my profile from the archives!

Matthew Cicanese@matthewcicanese.bsky.social

Two mushrooms grow from the top of a decaying log at #MountMitchell, NC. The ethereal glow from the #LongExposure reveals their beautiful gills, emerald green #moss covering the log, & an azure sky peeks in from the background forest canopy. #FungiFriends #Mushroom #Fungi #Macro #NaturePhotography

i didn’t know about this until rn!!!! This is a badass and UNIQUE feature. my standard feed is a combo of my interests/engaged topics , & I can also find specific feeds if I wanna hone in on one type of content at that moment 🙌🏻🙌🏻

Now if you could fix a way for those of us who used an email to sign up that has stopped functioning, so that we can change into a new email, that would be hugely appreciated. Right now a confirmation mail goes to my old dead email... Sigh...😪

Thanks for that very important reminder, I was so focused on finding the best info-sources, I nearly forgot to balance out the comedy, music, science and art. Can recommend the "UK Comedy" starter pack, for those who like that sort of thing. Some excellent comedians in there already

I’d suggest algorithm choices as well, for both Following and Discover. Something like: [x] Likes [ ] Comments [x] Only count those I’m following … Basically the same stuff you already debate, but as simple choices.

Q: Does the feedback I provide or custom feeds I follow impact and/or update my home experience? Example - most custom feeds are very tailored, but I'd love if my home experience also pulled content from or influenced by those feeds