As Threads deprioritizes politics, Bluesky’s CEO touts custom feeds and user choice in social media

Image Credit: TechCrunch. Article by Sarah Perez. TechCrunch – February 14, 2024.

Meta is in hot water after announcing plans to remove politics from its recommendations across Instagram and Threads, its new Twitter-like app for text-based posts. That leaves a window of opportunity for the startup Bluesky, whose CEO Jay Graber recently explained that Meta’s decision is emblematic of the types of problems that could emerge when you have “one algorithm run by one company,” and how Bluesky’s app is different. […]

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