What makes Bluesky unique?

For starters, if you’d like, you may make your domain your handle. Verification might be aided by this. After Musk started deleting blue checkmarks from verified accounts that refused to pay a monthly subscription, the matter became contentious for Twitter.

According to the Bluesky Social corporate blog, “A newsroom like NPR could set their handle to be @npr.org.” Subdomains might then be used to designate the handles of any journalists that NPR wishes to confirm to be @name.npr.org. Additionally, brand accounts might use their handle as their domain.

Moderation Moderation is distinct as well. Bluesky already uses automatic moderation, according to another blog post, and includes a community labeling system that is “something similar to shared mute/block lists.”

Although you may control that by following or banning certain accounts, users of many social media sites are seen content from a feed that is chosen for them by an algorithm. But Bluesky aims to offer you the option to choose what you see using a number of different algorithms.

Accounts may be blocked, which goes a step further and means that neither you nor the other account can view or engage with each other’s postings, or they can be muted, which stops you from receiving any notifications or top-level posts from them. Additionally, you may report abusive posts or accounts. Users who were dissatisfied with X’s recent change in blocking behavior could be especially interested in the blocking option.

In order to prevent pile-ons and other harmful conduct, you may disconnect your posts from other users’ posts that quote you and conceal responses to your posts.

Maintaining relationships Even if Bluesky undergoes changes, artists who gain a following on the platform may eventually be able to maintain relationships with their followers.

The third-party Sky Follower Bridge is a free program that looks through your follower list and follows accounts with the same names on Bluesky if you wish to follow the individuals you followed on X. Although there will be many inactive Bluesky accounts and a few false positives, generally we’ve found it to be highly effective.

The rules that dictate how material is sorted and suggested to consumers are known as custom feed algorithms. Custom feeds are a feature offered by Bluesky that lets you choose the algorithm that decides what you view.

“Imagine you want your timeline to only be posts from your mutuals, or only posts that have cat photos, or only posts related to sports — you can simply pick your feed of choice from an open marketplace,” according to a blog entry on the website. More information regarding algorithmic choosing and bespoke feeds may be found in a lengthy article. To add and find new feeds, click the hashtag symbol at the bottom of the app.

The website offers a feed generator starting kit for developers to use to generate bespoke feeds, and it says that soon the tools will be simple enough for the rest of us to use.

Do you want to follow a well picked list of individuals and go straight into Bluesky? You have the option to follow starter packs, which are user-generated lists that are often themed. CNET has a detailed explanation here, but to put it just, they are comparable to what X refers to as lists and are a fantastic method to start a reliable feed that is tailored to your interests.

Read more: Bluesky Makes It Simple to Locate Your Favorites on X (Twitter). How to Do It

Who is it being used by?

The following is a brief list of some of the individuals and organizations who post on Bluesky.

Mark Hamill, star of Star Wars
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rep.
Dionne Warwick, a pop legend
Lizzo, a singer
Ben Stiller, actor; Guillermo del Toro, director
Dril, the X personality (actual name: Paul Dochney)
Senator of the United States for Minnesota Smith, Tina
Stephen King, author, humor website The Original EGOT of Onions George Takei, a 17th-century diarist, and Barbra Streisand, Star Trek star Samuel Pepys, author Colson Whitehead, WWW creator, and web cartoonist Randall Monroe, also known as XKCD Berners-Lee, Tim
Drew Carey is an actor and game-show presenter.
Drew Magary, author and Defector writer
William Gibson, author of science fiction for The New York Times
God
Additionally, one account is not visible on Bluesky.
Neither the National Football League nor any of its individual clubs are currently available on Bluesky.

See also: The Reasons the NFL Won’t Appear on Bluesky

However, that might change. You could see your favorite teams appear there once the league waits to see if it can reach an agreement with the service, according to the Sports Business Journal.