Bluesky
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Decentralized social network built on the AT Protocol, whose co-founders unveiled the Claude-powered Attie assistant for building custom feeds.
Serving the For You feed
A Bluesky power user scaled a custom "For You" feed to 70K users on a gaming PC for $30/month, exposing the massive over-engineering baked into mainstream social platforms.
Everyone Wants Servers And Nobody Wants Servers
DDoS attacks expose the resilience paradox: Bluesky's centralized architecture crashed (99% downtime) while Mastodon's distributed server topology (tens of thousands of independent nodes) weathered the same attack with ~30% impact, showing that network fault isolation—not decentralization ideology—determines survivability.
Bluesky now supports better quality photos
Bluesky v1.121 doubles photo uploads to 2MB, adds 4000px resolution support, and switches to a swipeable carousel to match feature parity with Threads and X.
Hands on with X’s new AI-powered custom feeds
X launches Grok-powered custom feeds for Premium subscribers, using real-time AI understanding to curate 75+ topic timelines instead of keyword matching—deepening xAI's integration into X's core product.
Mastodon says its flagship server was hit by a DDoS attack
Decentralized social networks Mastodon and Bluesky face a pattern of DDoS attacks, signaling coordinated targeting of distributed platforms vulnerable to infrastructure disruption.