Bluesky adds Trending topics to its arsenal

As a peculiar vacation treat, connected December 25th, the societal media app Bluesky announced that it has added a caller diagnostic to its mobile app: a database of Trending topics that lets you cognize what subjects are fashionable among its users.

The caller diagnostic tin beryllium recovered by selecting the hunt icon (the magnifying glass), which appears astatine the bottommost of the surface connected the mobile app and connected the near sidebar connected the web. Lists of Trending and Recommended subjects present look beneath the hunt bar. Tap connected immoderate topic, and you volition beryllium capable to entree the associated posts. When I tried it, choices among the apical 5 included Christmas and Nosferatu (not an unexpected enactment of topics but an absorbing juxtaposition).

If you’d alternatively not spot the list, you tin get escaped of it via a tiny “x” successful the precocious close corner, oregon spell to Settings > Content & Media and toggle disconnected Enable trending topics.

According to the announcement, the caller diagnostic is “V1” (it is marked arsenic a Beta connected the app) and “we volition beryllium iterating with your feedback.” So if you person immoderate objections to Trends appearing nether your Bluesky hunt bar, fto them know.