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Maybe you’re not ready to commit to adding yet another social media account. No problem — you can still look around on Bluesky without signing up because all posts and profiles are public.You might get a sense of deja vu because the platform’s look and feel are very similar to X. That should be no surprise because Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey was an early Bluesky champion. (Dorsey’s no longer involved with Bluesky, which is owned and run by its executive team as a public benefit corporation.)
If you take the plunge and get an account, you’ll need a username. You’ll notice Bluesky handles are a little bit different because they end by default in the site’s domain, .bsky.social.You can personalize your handle to make it more memorable, by using your own website’s domain or buying a custom one through Bluesky. But it might not be something most newbie users need or want to do right away.Bluesky boasts that it gives users “algorithmic choice” to tailor the content they’re shown instead of leaving it up to the whims of a centralized system.
“Our online experience doesn’t have to depend on billionaires unilaterally making decisions over what we see,”What it means is that you can follow custom feeds set up by other users, or design your own. If you tap #Feeds in the menu on the left, you’ll see some default offerings like Cat Pics and Gardening. My Bangers is a list of your most popular posts by likes and Catch Up shows the site’s most popular posts from the past 24 hours. You can find more by doing a search and tapping the Feeds button.
There’s also the usual “Discover” feed of suggested posts and a chronological feed of accounts that you follow.
To help new users settle in, Bluesky hasA collection of “Star Wars” memorabilia is displayed at Rancho Obi-Wan, a nonprofit museum in Petaluma, Calif., on Thursday, May 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Haven Daley)
“I love a good dad joke as much as anyone, but my God you can take it too far,” Taylor said.In western Germany, a Protestant congregation held a Star Wars-themed service Sunday, German news agency dpa reported. Pastor Samuel Dörr and some of his congregants wore costumes and decorated their church in Bensberg.
The day is being celebrated on a large and small scale this year. Disney+ is launching the“Star Wars: Tales of the Underworld” on the date, and it comes as the second season gets underway for another franchise series,