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

Meta is in hot water after announcing plans to remove politics from its recommendations across Instagram and Threads, its new Twitter-like app for

“It’s sort of a black box, the company can do whatever they want, and users don’t really have a choice,” Graber said, in response to a question about Meta’s censoring of politics, in an interview on the Techmeme Ride Home podcast. “Two people using the same Bluesky app could — one be having a very cozy, quiet experience, no politics, just seeing their friends’ posts and maybe like, pictures of moss and cats,” Graber suggested. Unlike with centralized platforms, like the Meta-operated Facebook, Instagram, and Threads, or even the Elon Musk-run X, (formerly Twitter), Bluesky presents a different approach to social media.

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