Bluesky now permits heads of state to affix the platform

Now that Bluesky has opened itself as much as the general public and , the workforce’s determined it’s lastly time to permit world leaders on board, too. A submit from the official account on Friday notified customers, “By the way in which… we lifted our ‘no heads of state’ coverage.” The coverage has been in place for the final yr as Bluesky labored by way of all of the early rising pains of being a budding social community.

Bluesky remained an invite-only platform from its launch in February 2023 till February of this yr, when it lastly ditched the waitlist. had stated final Could that it wasn’t prepared for heads of state to affix, and even requested customers to present its help workforce discover “earlier than you invite distinguished figures.” It’s since grown to greater than 5 million customers, alone within the day after it stopped requiring invite codes.