Bluesky lifted its ban on heads of state signups

When Bluesky instituted its heads-of-state coverage, the location was nonetheless in its showing-everyone’s-ass part, and its moderation strategy wasn’t in place, but. So as a substitute of the various levels of managed chaos that social networks are, Bluesky was stuffed with, nicely, plenty of unsettlingly horny footage of the cat-eating alien puppet star of the Nineteen Eighties sitcom Alf, which The Verge’s Elizabeth Lopatto identified final 12 months. It didn’t appear able to handle world leaders together with the likes of notorious shitposters like Dril.

The positioning additionally launched different options this week, together with hashtags in profile bios and the flexibility to long-press a hyperlink to share them.

As Bluesky updates its coverage, world leaders are already on different platforms, together with, type of, Mastodon. US President Joseph Robinette Biden’s account began utilizing Threads’ restricted fediverse integration earlier this month, for example. For the time being, it doesn’t appear to be Biden has joined up, so there’s no Commander-in-Skeets fairly but.