Bluesky has simply made it simpler for anybody to take a look at particular posts. Courtesy of the newest replace to the web site and app, now you can view Bluesky posts with out being logged in or utilizing an account. The brand new functionality rolled out late final week, based on a blog post from Bluesky CEO Jay Graber.

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The one limitation is that you may’t simply browse totally different profiles and posts from the house web page with out being logged in. You have to know the precise profile identify or put up hyperlink that you simply wish to see. Nonetheless, you’ll be able to seek for a selected consumer by full identify or deal with to view their profile and all their posts.

With the brand new possibility, all posts are accessible to anybody. Don’t need your posts to be seen by the general public? Head to the Moderation tab on the web site or within the app and activate the swap for “Discourage apps from displaying my account to logged-out customers.” Doing so will preserve your profile and posts seen solely to logged-in Bluesky customers; nonetheless, different apps might not respect this setting, based on the swap’s description.

A brand new beta characteristic additionally permits you to conceal a person put up if you happen to do not wish to see it once more. Obtainable within the ellipsis icon menu, the “Disguise Put up” command will take away it out of your feeds and put a masks behind it if you happen to go to it straight via a hyperlink.

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With Bluesky nonetheless obtainable solely via invitation or waitlist, the builders want a method to assist folks expertise it with out an account. Although you’ll be able to’t like, repost, or reply to a put up with out being logged in, you’ll be able to nonetheless totally learn a put up and entry any hyperlinks it comprises. Plus, you’ll be able to translate the put up to a different language, copy the textual content of the put up, and duplicate any hyperlinks within the put up.

And there is extra on faucet for Bluesky customers. There’s now an embedded video and music participant for the web site and app that may play video or audio from such companies as YouTube, SoundCloud, Spotify, and Twitch by way of a hyperlink. Simply click on or faucet the Play button to observe or hear.

Lastly, Bluesky has a brand new emblem, particularly a blue butterfly. Why a butterfly? In his put up, Graber referred to as it a logo of change and transformation.

“Early on, we observed that individuals have been organically utilizing the butterfly emoji to point their Bluesky handles,” Graber stated. “We liked it, and adopted it because it unfold. Like a butterfly rising from its chrysalis, we’re beginning to open up. Posts on Bluesky have been public from the beginning via the open protocol, however in the present day we’re making them publicly accessible via the app. We’re unfolding a bit bit at a time, and are excited to deliver you alongside on this journey of metamorphosis!”