Bluesky is on a roll and recent stats published by the company show how it continues to soar in terms of usage and popularity.
Amid all the success comes new plans for the future and one of those includes a personalized platform for payments. The company’s COO shared the news through an interview where she delineated the power of monetization for users.
As per Bluesky, if users aren’t making money through the app then it shouldn’t be either. Therefore, to facilitate ease of financial transactions and align the different incentives of its users including the creator and developer community, it’s laying down plans.
The new payment system in development would ensure payments are done through the app and also across different platforms so the entire ecosystem can work as one and reap the benefits. Bluesky cleverly added that while most users are the ones gaining the majority of the funds, they’ll just take out their share in the form of a transaction fee.
The plans are set to come into action next year but no date was revealed. This is also the same time we expect the app to roll out planned subscriptions which come in early 2025.
Many commented on how they feel it would be an interesting aspect to combine monetization and decentralization in one place. However, others were wary about the news and felt the app should focus more on the likes of keeping the platform safe.
In other news, Bluesky just rolled out some exciting updates, one of which has finally fixed a major issue related to impersonation. Users get the chance to verify their identity on the app using their own domains. This means you don’t have to wait for the app to free the old .bsky.social username.
Before, we saw the entire authentication process make the above username available so that means users need to keep signing up to secure older handles if they aren’t keen on impersonators.
The app has long been busy working to fix these errors about verification for quite some time now. It became a huge issue after the service showed a large rise in users in the past few months.
Meanwhile, alarming results shared in research by Cornell Tech analyzed the entire userbase and they found 44% of the leading 100 most followed accounts featuring doppelgangers. For this reason, the company knew the only solution had to include taking an aggressive stand.
The app also shared more on prohibiting issues like identity churning where users would begin as impersonators to get more followers and then alter the identity later to prevent enforcement actions.
Other than reserving old handles, the new Bluesky platform features another tab in the notifications section called Mentions. It makes it all the more simpler to search for answers in the posts. As mentioned by The Verge, it’s a great new button where users' replies pop up. This way, they can select them in a linear fashion or through threaded discussions.
So as you can see, the app is really making waves in terms of building a stronger platform with the best features. This combined with monetization could give it the edge it needs to succeed in 2025.
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Amid all the success comes new plans for the future and one of those includes a personalized platform for payments. The company’s COO shared the news through an interview where she delineated the power of monetization for users.
As per Bluesky, if users aren’t making money through the app then it shouldn’t be either. Therefore, to facilitate ease of financial transactions and align the different incentives of its users including the creator and developer community, it’s laying down plans.
The new payment system in development would ensure payments are done through the app and also across different platforms so the entire ecosystem can work as one and reap the benefits. Bluesky cleverly added that while most users are the ones gaining the majority of the funds, they’ll just take out their share in the form of a transaction fee.
The plans are set to come into action next year but no date was revealed. This is also the same time we expect the app to roll out planned subscriptions which come in early 2025.
Many commented on how they feel it would be an interesting aspect to combine monetization and decentralization in one place. However, others were wary about the news and felt the app should focus more on the likes of keeping the platform safe.
In other news, Bluesky just rolled out some exciting updates, one of which has finally fixed a major issue related to impersonation. Users get the chance to verify their identity on the app using their own domains. This means you don’t have to wait for the app to free the old .bsky.social username.
Before, we saw the entire authentication process make the above username available so that means users need to keep signing up to secure older handles if they aren’t keen on impersonators.
The app has long been busy working to fix these errors about verification for quite some time now. It became a huge issue after the service showed a large rise in users in the past few months.
Meanwhile, alarming results shared in research by Cornell Tech analyzed the entire userbase and they found 44% of the leading 100 most followed accounts featuring doppelgangers. For this reason, the company knew the only solution had to include taking an aggressive stand.
The app also shared more on prohibiting issues like identity churning where users would begin as impersonators to get more followers and then alter the identity later to prevent enforcement actions.
Other than reserving old handles, the new Bluesky platform features another tab in the notifications section called Mentions. It makes it all the more simpler to search for answers in the posts. As mentioned by The Verge, it’s a great new button where users' replies pop up. This way, they can select them in a linear fashion or through threaded discussions.
So as you can see, the app is really making waves in terms of building a stronger platform with the best features. This combined with monetization could give it the edge it needs to succeed in 2025.
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