Before the end of the year, Bluesky will introduce communities. This feature is described as smaller spaces where it is possible to deepen knowledge and spend time with people with common interests. Enough to move away from a single public square model.
How will these communities work?
Each community will have a unique identifier which will also serve as a URL, such as nom-communaute.bsky.social or nom-communaute.bsky.space. This address will lead to a customizable home page.
Product manager at Bluesky, Alex Benzer specifies that creators will be able to host a fully personalized experience using the tools of the AT Protocol ecosystem, the open source framework on which Bluesky is based.
Three levels of confidentiality will be available: public, by invitation only, and private. Community posts may appear in Explorer or in a dedicated feed. A final decision has not yet been made.
An adventure that failed for X
Bluesky’s announcement comes as Meta is currently testing a similar feature for Threads, while X recently abandoned its own version of Communities due to lack of adoption.
Inspiration from the side of Reddit is in any case not hidden. Bluesky will seek to differentiate itself by leveraging its decentralized protocol, and evokes a new structure for all those building in the Atmosphere, namely the AT protocol developer ecosystem. It won’t just be for Bluesky.
A Communities feature could allow Bluesky to revitalize the exposure of content and avoid the reporting of publications that are sometimes very similar.
