Bluesky will soon add a dislike button, enhanced toxicity detection, and reply context
As it just hit 40 million users, Bluesky has outlined a set of upcoming updates that seek to create healthier interactions, improve conversation quality, and give users more control over their environment. As part of this initiative, the platform will soon test a private dislike option, letting individuals indicate which posts they prefer to see less often. This feedback will inform content personalization in Discover and other feeds, as well as lightly influence reply ranking by reducing the visibility of lower-quality responses. Dislike signals remain private and primarily adjust the user’s own experience, with some effect extending to their immediate social circles.
Building on these controls, Bluesky will map emergent “social neighborhoods” by tracking natural interaction networks. By elevating replies from people closer to these neighborhoods, the platform aims to make conversations more relevant and minimize misunderstandings. At the same time, Bluesky has upgraded its moderation model to better detect and down-rank toxic, spammy, off-topic, or bad-faith replies within threads, search, and notifications, ensuring problematic content is less prominent but still visible for context when needed.
Following these moderation changes, the reply button on top-level posts will now lead users to the full conversation before allowing a response, encouraging informed participation. Additionally, a redesigned reply settings menu and a new composer prompt will help users control who can reply to their posts, making these tools easier to find and use.
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External links
- Progress Update: Building Healthier Social MediaBluesky • Official source
- Bluesky hits 40 million users, introduces 'dislikes' betaTechCrunch
- Bluesky Will Test a ‘Dislike’ Option. It Could Help Fix a Huge ProblemGizmodo
- Bluesky experiments with dislikes and 'social proximity' to improve conversationsEngadget
- Bluesky is Testing a Dislike Button and Smarter Replies to Tackle Toxic CommentsBeebom
- Bluesky Introduces Dislike Button, Hits 40M User MilestonePCMAG
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Letting people dislike things is always good, now we need a community notes system like Twitter.
How about they try adding some type of predator detector? Or better scanners for illegal content? I was one of the early beta users but got banned almost immediately for my political views. But over the past 2 years, I have seen dozens and dozens of complaints across X, reddit and YT of people claiming Bs is a cesspool of not just toxic, but also illegal and potentially illegal content. Idk maybe they were lying, but given the demographic of their userbase, I dont doubt it. If you are not very tuned in to the inconvenient truths around this topic, then you may still be believing the propaganda that denies how rampant this issue is. Just do some research. Theres a reason its true. That dont make it ok, and you may not like what you learn, but regardless, theres a direct reason why predators are disproportionately represented in leftist/activist/libertarian and lgbt communities. Call me a bigot but it doesnt make my claim untrue. 🤷♂️
Predators were there in mass well before activists moved in. I do not like Bluesky activists, but they did not bring that behavior to platform.
"I got banned for my political views because the filter is busted" and then proceeds to write the most queerphobic and ultra conservative piece of propaganda.
Predators wear uniforms, they hide among the people you would trust without much thought. They are the ones you would feel safe around, willingly entrusting your children, and women comply to their requests, not knowing what awaits them. They hide their intentions behind their role as protectors, and justify their actions with seemingly reasonable excuses.
Police officers, teachers, priests, doctors, and more. The most vulnerable are little girls and women, as statistically the vast majority of predators are heterosexual men.
Men in power, like Epstein, Trump, prince Andrew, user their cult of personality and their power to build a reputation. Epstein got caught and processed only because he became inconvenient for other powerful men.
You fell for yet another one of the many lies they feed you, a population is much easier to control when they fight and hate each other, rather than rise up and fight injustice.
Bluesky is a leading toxic app right now. So decreasing toxicity option was needed yesterday.
It is twitter for reddit users, so it is going to be echo chamber and toxic(or Is), I don't use twitter these days but from what i heard you can still say any thing you want in there.
All social networks are toxic. Twitter is an ironic prime example, and Nolly doesn't realize it abuses shadow bans and content rating not merely to suppress content, but also to craft certain opinions in people. Never trust any big tech.
One of their employees expressed how Bluesky doesn't want to truly moderate the space Instead, one should just use all the tools Bluesky offers to get a clean timeline I think all of these updates are done to do that
I think Bluesky just does not get enough money to hire hundreds or thousands of moderators. Major part of its budget are donations. So getting some tools to moderate based on keywords/hashtags/tags/topics is probably a more doable, cheaper option.
I always like features that help preserve my echo chamber. How dare people think they can share alternate opinions.
hard to say these could be good features after seeing what bsky's ceo is like and how she's not Too different from musk in some aspects