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Exciting news: We’re taking another step to making Bluesky an open network for public conversations.

Around the end of this month, we’ll release a public web interface. With this, you’ll be able to view posts on Bluesky without being logged in on an account.

As a reminder, Bluesky is a public social network, so your posts, likes, etc. have always been publicly accessible through the API.

We designed Bluesky with the openness of the internet in mind. You can think of your profile as a blog on the internet.

For more on data privacy, read our user FAQ:

We’ve been working on some new safety tooling — here’s a status report on what you can expect soon and what we’ve recently released: 🧵

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Update: App Passwords no longer have access to your invite codes, to ensure that third-party tools cannot claim your invite codes without your awareness.

Please only login to third-party tools that you trust, and always use an App Password (a temporary solution until we implement OAuth). 🧵

We're rolling out email verification in the latest Bluesky app release (1.52), as part of a larger effort to improve account security and authentication on the network.

Update and verify your email in Settings. In the coming days, you'll also receive an in-app prompt to verify your email.

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📢 Version 1.51 has a bunch of big updates!

• The icon for the feeds tab is now a hashtag, and the tab lists saved feeds and suggests new feeds.
• On Web desktop, your pinned feeds are now in the right sidebar.

(We're working on hashtags too, so consider this a teaser!)

📢 1.53 is now available with some bugfixes (1/2)

General
• Fixed an issue where the invites UI would not show for some users
• The reminder to verify your email will now happen less frequently

Mobile
• Fixed an issue with email changing and verification flows where the interface would get cut off

📢 1.54 is now rolling out with...

• Multiple performance improvements
• On mobile, you can now tap images you're viewing to hide the buttons and caption (aka "alt text")

📢 1.55 is now available. It includes:

• Bugfixes, and
• Performance improvements

That's it, that's the update.

The performance improvements should reduce startup time a bit. We think we can shave a few more seconds off in future updates as well.

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