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Bluesky launched group chats supporting up to 50 people and announced plans for Reddit-style communities with custom handles. The features arrive as growth stalls at 44.8 million users, compared to X's 600 million. X shut down its own Communities feature in April.
Bluesky head of product Alex Benzer announced communities are coming this year. The feature will provide smaller topic-specific spaces within the platform, with custom landing pages and URLs like community-name.bsky.social. Users can create or join communities, post, and receive updates.
Bluesky will launch communities, smaller spaces for shared interests, built on the AT Protocol. Head of product Alex Benzer outlined three privacy levels (public, invite-only, private), each with its own feed and a handle that doubles as a URL. The feature arrives as Threads tests communities and X shuts its version down.
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