{"id":24810,"date":"2024-04-14T04:59:49","date_gmt":"2024-04-14T04:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/6ef3b5b0-7cda-4a60-b8a8-74c2366bad7912"},"modified":"2024-04-14T04:59:49","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T04:59:49","slug":"bluesky-now-allows-heads-of-state-to-join-the-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/bluesky-now-allows-heads-of-state-to-join-the-platform\/","title":{"rendered":"Bluesky now allows heads of state to join the platform"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/bluesky-now-allows-heads-of-state-to-join-the-platform.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Now that Bluesky has opened itself up to the public and <span class=\"waslinkname\"><ins>introduced some new moderation options<\/ins><\/span>, the team\u2019s decided it\u2019s finally time to allow world leaders on board, too. A post from the official <span class=\"waslinkname\"><ins>Bluesky<\/ins><\/span> account on Friday notified users, \u201cBy the way&#8230; we lifted our \u2018no heads of state\u2019 policy.\u201d The policy has been in place for the last year as Bluesky worked through all the early growing pains of being a budding social network.<\/p>\n<p>Bluesky remained an invite-only platform from its launch in February 2023 until February of this year, when it finally ditched the waitlist. <span class=\"waslinkname\"><ins>Bluesky<\/ins><\/span> had said last May that it wasn\u2019t ready for heads of state to join, and even asked users to give its support team notice \u201cbefore you invite prominent figures.\u201d It\u2019s since grown to more than 5 million users, <span class=\"waslinkname\"><ins>gaining roughly a million<\/ins><\/span> alone in the day after it stopped requiring invite codes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that Bluesky has opened itself up to the public and introduced some new moderation options, the team\u2019s decided it\u2019s finally time to allow world leaders on board, too. A post from the official Bluesky account on Friday notified users, \u201cBy the way&#8230; we lifted our \u2018no heads of state\u2019 policy.\u201d The policy has been &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24811,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"hashtags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24810"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24810"},{"taxonomy":"hashtags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtags?post=24810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}