Rose 🌹

@rose.bsky.team

COO of Bluesky 🦋 - hiring https://bsky.social/about/join!

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We are at a time where a few online kingdoms are trying to centralize control of attention. Meanwhile, more people can build than ever before and this is the biggest threat to the current kings. Our bet is on the future builders.

App creation on atproto is accelerating, and the constraint on every builder is the same: they need data and users. We have both, and the ability for data and services to be composable and remixable, encouraging collaboration across apps and experiences. We’re solving many pain points for builders, such as moderation, notification delivery, etc. We have 46 million accounts’ worth of social data on the open web, and the userbase we’ve built is disproportionately made up of very online people building the next forms of media, games, communities, and experiences. The Bluesky app is how they find each other and discover what’s happening in other spaces, on- and off-platform. Our goal has always been to build an open ecosystem: a new generation of apps and experiences built on top of open social data, with an open distribution channel for builders at a moment when platform economics on closed ecosystems are moving against them.
@rose.bsky.team

Wow this is such a cool, sane, and social way to stay up to date with midterms!!

Graze Social@graze.social

We've been hard at work behind the scenes the last few weeks to prepare for this - a 52-feed deep dive on the state of the election, run by *you*, the community that depends on this information. We've also partnered with some great folks in the ecosystem. Let's take a quick tour.

@toni.bsky.teamReposted by @rose.bsky.team

A little scoop before Oct 7, when ICANN publishes 1,000+ applications for new top-level domains: one of them is .bsky! It's a long road (18 to 24 months), but if it goes through, handles like alice.bsky become possible.

@darrin.bsky.teamReposted by @rose.bsky.team

We want to make it easier for creators to link out and attract financial support, so we're exploring a new feature that lets you add links on your profile. They show up as buttons under your bio.

@bsky.appReposted by @rose.bsky.team

Welcome to the ONLY event about Apple happening today, as far as we know. We'll be running this as an AMAAA (Ask Me Anything About Apples). Ask your biggest Apple questions in the replies to this post and one of our Apple Geniuses will be with you shortly. 🍎

@bsky.appReposted by @rose.bsky.team

Now you can opt out of having your posts shown to non-followers in the Discover feed. We know not everyone wants to go viral. Sometimes you're just posting for your followers. This is one of a few updates we're working on to give you more control over your experience and help you find your people.

Instructional image titled "Hide your posts from non-followers in Discover" accompanied by a screenshot of the "privacy and security" options from the Bluesky settings menu. "Ask apps to hide my posts from algorithmic recommendations" is toggled to the "on" state.
@alexbenzer.comReposted by @rose.bsky.team

thread numbering badges now show up on posts in feeds!

to see them, make sure you have beta features enabled. you can do that here: bsky.app/settings/bet...

once that's enabled, you should see them on posts in feeds like in the photo below.

let us know what you think!

A demo showing where the thread number badge appears on posts in feeds.
@bsky.appReposted by @rose.bsky.team

Big video update! You can now post videos up to 10 minutes long, and they'll upload 2–3x faster. That's on top of the recent increase in maximum file size to 300MB.

We can’t wait to see what you’ll create!

NOW PLAYING: "Rent Control," by @shing.bsky.social and @jayackley.bsky.social

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The first four minutes of The Last Fifteen Minutes, a marionette musical short film by @shing.bsky.social and @jayackley.bsky.social.

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