Bluesky’s New ‘Anti-Toxicity’ Features ⇥ bsky.social

Paul Frazee, on Bluesky’s blog, announced a set of new “anti-toxicity” features. This one seems particularly good:

As of the latest app version, released today (version 1.90), users can view all the quote posts on a given post. Paired with that, you can detach your original post from someone’s quote post.

Quoted posts are a good feature, says someone who writes a website largely built around quotes from others, and I appreciate the benefits they provide. But there are also times when someone could be inundated with hostile mentions because they were quoted by someone with a large audience. This is a good way of allowing them to back out while retaining the feature.

Bluesky continues to do some really interesting stuff — from new things like Starter Packs, to rethinking established norms of social media platforms. I hope it succeeds.