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Bluesky will launch Reddit-style communities this year - Engadget

Like subreddits, communities will provide you spaces to chat about specific topics. "Communities are coming to Bluesky this year," the decentralized social network's head of product, Alex Benzer, has announced. Benzer said that communities will be smaller spaces inside the one big space that Bluesky provides, where you can find and talk to people who are interested in the same topics you are. When the feature becomes available, you'll be able to create your own communities or join existing ones, post in them and get updates on new posts and responses. Every community will have a handle that also serves as its URL, such as community-name.bsky.social or community-name.bsky.space. When you go to that URL, you'll find a custom landing page for it. Community owners will even be able to create custom experiences and add features to their home pages with apps and tools for AT protocol, the open source framework for social apps that Bluesky uses. You don't always have to visit a community's homepage to get the latest posts, though. They will automatically appear either on your Discover feed or a special feed for them, if Bluesky decides to build one instead. Based on Benzer's posts, Bluesk

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Last day to exhibit your breakthrough to 10,000+ tech leaders at Disrupt is on Oct 2. Book Exhibit Table Now. Disrupt doors open Oct. 13. Get your pass and bring someone with you at 50% off. REGISTER NOW. Social network Bluesky launched…

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Last day to exhibit your breakthrough to 10,000+ tech leaders at Disrupt is on Oct 2. Book Exhibit Table Now. Disrupt doors open Oct. 13. Get your pass and bring someone with you at 50% off. REGISTER NOW. Social network…

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Bluesky will launch Reddit-style communities this year - Engadget

Like subreddits, communities will provide you spaces to chat about specific topics. "Communities are coming to Bluesky this year," the decentralized social network's head of product, Alex Benzer, has announced. Benzer…

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Last day to exhibit your breakthrough to 10,000+ tech leaders at Disrupt is on Oct 2. Book Exhibit Table Now. Disrupt doors open Oct. 13. Get your pass and bring someone with you at 50% off. REGISTER NOW. Social network Bluesky launched…

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Like subreddits, communities will provide you spaces to chat about specific topics. "Communities are coming to Bluesky this year," the decentralized social network's head of product, Alex Benzer, has announced. Benzer said that communities…

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