When Bluesky instituted its heads-of-state coverage, the location was nonetheless in its showing-everyone’s-ass section, and its moderation strategy wasn’t in place, but. So as an alternative of the various levels of managed chaos that social networks are, Bluesky was stuffed with, properly, a lot of unsettlingly attractive footage of the cat-eating alien puppet star of the Eighties sitcom Alf, which The Verge’s Elizabeth Lopatto identified final yr. It didn’t appear able to handle world leaders together with the likes of notorious shitposters like Dril.
The positioning additionally launched different options this week, together with hashtags in profile bios and the flexibility to long-press a hyperlink to share them.
As Bluesky updates its coverage, world leaders are already on different platforms, together with, form of, Mastodon. US President Joseph Robinette Biden’s account began utilizing Threads’ restricted fediverse integration earlier this month, for example. For the time being, it doesn’t seem like Biden has joined up, so there’s no Commander-in-Skeets fairly but.
