Quora vs Bluesky

U.S. and Canada users generally must resolve disputes through binding individual arbitration and waive class actions, which limits the ability to sue in court or join group cases. There is a 30-day opt-out window, which slightly reduces the impact.

You keep ownership, but Quora gets a very broad worldwide, transferable, sublicensable license to use, modify, distribute, and promote what you post. In practice, this gives Quora wide freedom to reuse your content across its platform and partner channels.

Deleting answers or your account may not fully erase copies already shared or syndicated outside Quora. Questions may also be edited or deleted by other users or Quora, reducing your control over posted material.

Your posts, profile details, and activity can be publicly visible, indexed by search engines, and shared beyond Quora. This makes participation potentially long-lasting and discoverable by employers, acquaintances, or the public.

Quora collects browsing, device, and engagement data, including via cookies, pixels, and embedded technologies on third-party sites, to personalize and measure ads. It also says it does not honor browser Do-Not-Track signals.

The service is provided "as is," Quora disclaims many warranties, and its liability is generally capped at the amount you paid in the prior 12 months. If something goes wrong, your practical remedies may be very limited.

Depending on location, users may have rights to access, correct, delete, restrict, object, port data, withdraw consent, and opt out of targeted advertising. These rights are clearly listed with contact methods for making requests.

Quora provides settings to manage profile discoverability, search indexing, messages, comments, and notifications, and account deletion removes content from public visibility. This gives users more practical control than many social platforms.

Users can opt out of having their answers, posts, and comments used for large language model training. This is a notable user-protective control that many content platforms do not clearly offer.

Quora keeps personal information while you have a relationship with it and then for unspecified periods for audit, legal, and claims purposes. Because no concrete time limits are given, data may persist long after account use ends.

Quora may add, remove, or change features without notice and may suspend or terminate accounts for any reason. This gives the company broad unilateral control over access and service stability.

Quora says it does not sell personal information to third parties, which is a meaningful privacy commitment compared with many ad-supported platforms. This does not eliminate targeted advertising or other sharing, but it narrows one risk.

Direct messages are not end-to-end encrypted and may be accessed for trust and safety purposes. Users should not treat Bluesky DMs as highly confidential communications.

Posts, profile, likes, follows, and blocks are public by design. This makes social graph and activity data broadly visible rather than private by default.

Even if you delete your account, copies of your content may remain on other services using the AT Protocol. In practice, deletion across the decentralized network may not be fully enforceable.

Most disputes must go through a 60-day informal process and then binding individual arbitration instead of court. This usually makes it harder to bring claims publicly or use normal court procedures.

Users generally cannot participate in class or representative actions against Bluesky. That reduces leverage for small-value claims that are impractical to pursue individually.

Bluesky says it does not sell or share personal data for targeted advertising. That's a meaningful privacy-positive commitment compared with many social platforms.

Depending on location, users can request access, correction, deletion, portability, restriction, objection, and review of automated decisions. These are substantial privacy rights, especially for users in stronger-regulation jurisdictions.

You keep ownership of what you post, but grant Bluesky a worldwide, royalty-free license to reproduce, adapt, distribute, display, moderate, and promote that content. This is broad enough to cover product use and marketing uses.

Bluesky keeps data while your account is active and may retain it longer for trust and safety, disputes, audits, legal compliance, and claims. The policy does not give firm deletion deadlines for many categories.

If something goes wrong, Bluesky's financial liability is generally limited to US$100, except in narrow cases like fraud, gross negligence causing death or personal injury, or non-waivable statutory rights.

The terms explicitly say you can delete your account at any time in settings. A built-in deletion flow is more user-friendly than requiring manual support requests.

If your account is suspended or restricted, you can appeal using an in-app tool or email within two weeks. EU/EEA users also retain access to out-of-court review and local courts.