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The best VPNs for BlueSky (and how to use a VPN with BlueSky)
Want to bypass BlueSky social media blocks? BlueSky is a popular new social media platform based in Seattle, USA. As with other Western social media services, such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, it is restricted in some countries around the globe. This guide explains how to use one of the best VPNs for BlueSky. This will help you regain access…
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Use Bluesky Directory to Find the Best Starter Packs of People to Follow
If you’re tuned in to digital culture news at all, it’s been impossible to miss the chatter about Bluesky over the past month. The fledgling social media site—which looks and acts a lot like Twitter did a decade ago, long before Elon Musk bought it and renamed it X—is exploding in popularity, doubling in size over the past two months…
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Yes, There Is a TweetDeck for Bluesky
A lot of the once bird app’s flocks appear to be migrating from X (formerly Twitter) to Bluesky. A big wave of people have finally left Elon Musk’s social media app, hoping to regain some of the magic of old Twitter. While the official app and website are a great place to get started with Bluesky, there are a whole…
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How to Moderate Your Own Feed on Bluesky
Quick Links Your Home Page, Just How You Like It Mute (or Block) the Noise One of the most remarkable features of Bluesky is its approach to the home page. Forget about the deluge of sponsored posts mixed in with algorithm-optimized engagement bait that you’re used to seeing—in Bluesky, you’re in control of what you see and how often you…
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Use ‘Bridgy Fed’ to Connect Mastodon and Bluesky
The Great Twitter Exodus of 2022 is still happening. It’s just a little…fractured. A lot of X power users migrated to Bluesky early on, which paved the way for a flood of folks to join that service in 2024. Meanwhile, a lot of technically inclined individuals are still hanging out on Mastodon (at least, that’s where I hang out). Bluesky…
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Croissant Is an iPhone App That Posts to Mastodon, Threads, and Bluesky at Once
Social media has been weird—well, weirder—ever since the death of Twitter. Those of us who have moved on from X have been forced to search out our friends on on some combination of Bluesky, Mastodon, and Threads, and while there’s some hope that all these services will eventually be joined together in the Fediverse, right now they’re only kind of…
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How to Use Bluesky: A Complete Beginner’s Guide
Recently, X (previously known as Twitter) received a lot of criticism for its decision to allow blocked users to see your posts while also using your data to train their AI. As a result, many people have joined Bluesky, a new decentralized platform that looks and feels similar to the good old Twitter. So, if you’re departing the X ship…
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How to Find Your X/Twitter Followers on Bluesky
So you’ve finally decided to quit X. If the boosting of paid blue checks and monetized hate didn’t do it, and the stupid name change didn’t do it, maybe the recent announcement of plans to essentially eliminate blocking was the last straw to get you to ditch the former Twitter. That seems to have been the case for at least…
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Brazil’s X ban is sending lots of people to Bluesky
X is currently banned in Brazil following an order from a Supreme Court justice, and Brazilian users seem to be turning to Bluesky, an alternate social network, in droves. “Brazil, you’re setting new all-time-highs for activity on Bluesky!” the official Bluesky account says in a post. “There will almost certainly be some outages and performance issues,” Bluesky developer Paul Frazee…
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