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Rikesh Mistry
@rikeshmistry.bsky.social
#Designer | #Actor | #Developer

Creative Entrepreneur at RikeshMistry.co

Business Mentor ~ Enterprise & Specialist Events Lead at The King's Trust

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🐦 Twitter.com/Rikesh_Mistry

🗺️ London & East Anglia
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👋 Bluesky is an open social network that gives creators independence from platforms, developers the freedom to build, and users a choice in their experience. We're so excited to have you here!

We share Bluesky updates & news from this account. A quick orientation thread: 🧵✨
October 17, 2024 at 7:06 AM
Bluesky now has over 10 million users!
October 10, 2024 at 3:20 PM
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this morning we crossed THREE MILLION new users!

that brings our total size to over 9 million people. welcome everyone! we're so glad you're here 🫶 (and yes, video is coming soon)
September 6, 2024 at 10:14 PM
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Now available: DMs! Start a private conversation with a friend directly on Bluesky within the Chat tab. 💬

Update to the latest version of the app (1.83) or refresh on desktop to start chatting!
May 22, 2024 at 6:57 PM
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By default, only people you follow can message you. You can change this to everyone or no one in your DM settings.

Read more about how to use DMs, privacy and safety, and planned improvements in this blog post:
Just shipped: Bluesky Direct Messages! - Bluesky
You can now send direct messages (DMs) to people on Bluesky! Say hi to a friend, colleague, or a crush.
bsky.social
May 24, 2024 at 5:31 PM
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In case you missed it, DMs are now available on Bluesky. 280k+ DMs have been sent already! 📬📈

Make sure you're on the latest version of the app (1.83) or refresh desktop to see DMs. ✨
May 24, 2024 at 5:31 PM
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HELL YES I GOT IT HOLY SHIT 🔭
April 8, 2024 at 8:07 PM
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Eclipse over Lake Memphremagog from Newport, VT yesterday. Incredible luck being able to get right on the water and the park was full of cheering crowds. Just an incredible experience.
April 9, 2024 at 5:56 AM
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📢 App Version 1.73 is rolling out now (1/3)

Introducing community labelers, a new tool for users to run independent moderation. Watch the video below for a quick overview, or read the blogpost from last week: bsky.social/about/blog/0...
Labelers on Bluesky
A quick tour of how to use Labelers on Bluesky.
youtu.be
March 20, 2024 at 6:18 PM
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We just crossed 5M people total on the network! 🎉
February 22, 2024 at 8:04 PM
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📢 App Version 1.69 is rolling out now (1/3)

We’ve improved dark mode and dim mode. Dim is now lighter, and dark’s contrast is now higher.

You can choose between these in your settings.
February 26, 2024 at 11:52 PM
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Today, we’re excited to announce Bluesky’s Head of Trust and Safety. Aaron Rodericks, who has over a decade of experience in defending platforms at global scale, is leading our moderation team in cultivating a healthy space for public conversation on Bluesky.

Learn more:
Bluesky announces Aaron Rodericks as Head of Trust and Safety
/PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Bluesky, the open social network, has appointed Aaron Rodericks as its new Head of Trust and Safety. Rodericks brings over a decade of...
www.prweb.com
February 28, 2024 at 6:13 PM
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📢 App Version 1.70 is rolling out now (1/6)

Hashtags! You can now use #hashtags in your posts. When you tap them, you’ll get a menu with lots of handy options:
February 28, 2024 at 11:52 PM
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👋 Hello to the 260+ self-hosters that have joined the network over the last week! (Notice how nothing has changed about the in-app experience? 😎)

Developers, in case you missed it, we enabled federation for self-hosters last week. Read this guide to learn how to set up your own server!
Early Access Federation for Self-Hosters | Bluesky
For a high-level introduction to data federation, as well as a comparison to other federated social protocols, check out the Bluesky blog.
docs.bsky.app
March 1, 2024 at 7:26 PM
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One million new users since we opened Bluesky yesterday!

Welcome to Bluesky!!! 🎉
February 8, 2024 at 5:45 AM
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Welcome all 240k newskies that have come in so far today — see you tomorrow! 🦋
February 7, 2024 at 6:07 AM
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We just passed 100k users in a day!

When we first passed 100k total users last May, our tiny team was fighting hard to keep the servers online. It’s exciting to be at a point where we can open up the network.
February 7, 2024 at 12:58 AM
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📢 App Version 1.67 is rolling out now (1/3)

You can now select text on posts in mobile!
February 6, 2024 at 10:03 PM
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Developers, build in an open ecosystem that will never lock you out 🛠️

Check out tutorials, starter templates, and a project showcase for the Bluesky API on our new docs site here!

docs.bsky.app
Bluesky Documentation | Bluesky
Explore guides and tutorials to the Bluesky API.
docs.bsky.app
February 6, 2024 at 3:21 PM
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Hey everyone, we had an outage for the past couple hours that put the network into a read-only mode. We're seeing a lot of new signups and some servers hit their limits.

We believe we've resolved the issue. Thanks everyone for hanging with us!
February 7, 2024 at 8:42 AM
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You can now sign up for Bluesky without an invite! 🎉

bsky.social/about/blog/0...
Join Bluesky Today (Bye, Invites!) - Bluesky
Sign up for Bluesky! No invite code required.
bsky.social
February 6, 2024 at 2:09 PM
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What’s New in Bluesky 🦋

Thank you all for using our free scheduling tools & @atproto.com for letting us build♥

After adding alt text and auto link cards, today we have more updates for the @bsky.app community!

Now, you can schedule spreadable threads & customize your RSS feed posts!

See details:
New Features for Bluesky Just Launched with Better Threads and RSS Support
Can you schedule to Bluesky? Can you schedule Bluesky threads? Yes and yes with Fedica! Now you can schedule and crosspost your thread across time and more!
fedica.com
January 24, 2024 at 6:26 PM
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📢 1.65 is rolling out (2/7)

The post composer will now detect the language and suggest tagging your post with that language. We’re still tuning the detection so you might get some false positives, but we hope this makes things easier for folks that jump between languages often.

Thanks @mary.my.id!
January 16, 2024 at 11:39 PM
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🎉 The Bluesky network is now 3M users and thriving! 🎉

More confident than ever that we users will be able to control the internet going forward. Which will make it possible to fix the problems caused by the misaligned incentives that have caused us so many problems.

More big things coming soon!
January 9, 2024 at 3:44 PM
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📢 1.63 is rolling out now (4/4)

Also:

• More app translations (Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish, Korean, Ukranian). Again, thank you to our contributors for these.
• Updates to the alt-text input to make it easier to use.
January 9, 2024 at 11:49 PM