Hacker News with Generative AI: Bluesky

Realtime bot block list on Bluesky (morphic.pro)
A Bluesky bot that automates a block list of accounts that spam follow. 🚫 Blocking 11056 accounts

Social Media, Bots, Anti-Spam, Bluesky

6 points by joshchernoff 8 days ago | 1 comments

Russian disinformation campaigns discover Bluesky (heise.de)
With the growing popularity of the Twitter alternative Bluesky, this network is also becoming increasingly interesting for disinformation campaigns. Currently, the pro-Russian influence operations "Doppelganger" and "Matryoshka" are apparently expanding their activities to Bluesky.

Disinformation, Social Media, Russia, Twitter Alternatives, Bluesky

7 points by doener 10 days ago | 0 comments

Bluesky's Most Popular Feeds in 2025 (bskyinfo.com)

Social Media, Trends, 2025, Bluesky

20 points by laimingj 10 days ago | 0 comments

What other communities do you use apart from HN? (ycombinator.com)
For example: apart from HN, I take part in Reddit and Bluesky. Facebook and Instagram ane inertia. Twitter/X is never more.

Social Media, Online Communities, Reddit, Bluesky, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram

60 points by stanislavb 17 days ago | 70 comments

Ask HN: Are you on Bluesky or Mastodon? (ycombinator.com)
Just wondering which (if any) of these two social networks HN users frequents and why that choice.

Social Media, Social Networks, Mastodon, Bluesky

10 points by Gooblebrai 23 days ago | 14 comments

Trying to use Bluesky without getting burned again (chrisholdgraf.com)
I see a lot of individuals and communities in my network moving their primary social media presence over to BlueSky in the last few weeks.

Social Media, Bluesky

269 points by ianrahman 31 days ago | 538 comments

So, Bluesky Has an Extortion Problem (tedium.co)
Bluesky, until now, has had a reputation as being a more moderation-friendly alternative to X, Threads, Mastodon, and other social networks.

Social Media, Censorship, Moderation, Bluesky

36 points by coloneltcb 42 days ago | 4 comments

Re: Re: Bluesky and Decentralization (dustycloud.org)
A few weeks ago I wrote How decentralized is Bluesky really?, a blogpost which received far more attention than I expected on the fediverse and Bluesky both.

Social Media, Decentralization, Bluesky

11 points by davexunit 43 days ago | 0 comments

Ask HN: Who's building tools for Bluesky? (ycombinator.com)
With the rapid growth of the user base, I've seen dozens of tools being built, like analytics, directories, extensions, etc.

Social Media, Bluesky, Tools, Community

10 points by leonagano 51 days ago | 3 comments

Show HN: Grow Bluesky – A curated collection of the best tools for Bluesky users (growbluesky.com)
Collection of tools to help Bluesky users get followers, track analytics, and connect with others easily

Social Media, Bluesky, Tools, Growth Hacking

54 points by skaplich 51 days ago | 15 comments

Bluesky Starter Pack Directory (blueskystarterpack.com)
Over 42,063 Bluesky starter packs to help you get started on Bluesky. Find and follow amazing accounts based on your interests!

Social Media, Bluesky, Community, Startups, Web

6 points by mooreds 54 days ago | 0 comments

A Personally Significant Bluesky Moment (scalzi.com)
Today marks a significant day in my personal history of social media, because today’s the day the Bluesky officially became the site where I have the largest number of followers I’ve ever had on any social media site: 206,700 as of this morning. Not Taylor Swift or John Cena numbers, but a perfectly respectable number for a nerd who writes science fiction.

Social Media, Personal Experiences, Bluesky, Science Fiction

19 points by akuchling 57 days ago | 4 comments

Show HN: Get notified when added to starter packs/block lists on Bluesky (bsky.app)

Social Media, Bluesky, Tools

7 points by dom96 59 days ago | 0 comments

Journalists flock to Bluesky as X becomes increasingly 'toxic' (nbcnews.com)
Journalists are finding more readers and less hate on Bluesky than on the platform they used to know as Twitter.

Social Media, Journalism, Twitter, Bluesky

16 points by aspenmayer 59 days ago | 0 comments

Guardian audience editor says Bluesky delivering more traffic than X (pressgazette.co.uk)
The audience editor for Guardian Australia has said that its posts to the new social network Bluesky delivered more referral traffic to theguardian.com in its first week on the platform than its posts to X have in any week in 2024.

Social Media, News, Journalism, Traffic, Bluesky

13 points by aspenmayer 60 days ago | 4 comments

From X/Twitter to a Bluesky: Import all tweets (github.com/marcomaroni-github)
Import all tweets exported from X/Twitter to a Bluesky account.

Social Media, Twitter, Bluesky, Data Migration

10 points by behnamoh 62 days ago | 0 comments

Bluesky Is Booming in Japan (japantimes.co.jp)
Japanese social media users are quickly taking to Bluesky and other X alternatives, with data suggesting the start of a durable trend.

Social Media, Japan, Trends, Bluesky

30 points by belter 63 days ago | 43 comments

Reply on Bluesky and Decentralization (whtwnd.com)
This is a reply to Christine Lemmer-Webber's thoughtful (and widely read) "How decentralized is Bluesky really?" blog post.

Social Media, Decentralization, Bluesky

43 points by Kye 63 days ago | 36 comments

I tried out this extension to bring my followers from Twitter to Bluesky (techradar.com)

Social Media, Migration, Bluesky

7 points by dgudkov 65 days ago | 0 comments

Meta loses ground to Bluesky as users abandon Elon Musk's X (ft.com)
Meta loses ground to Bluesky as users abandon Elon Musk’s X

Social Media, Competition, Elon Musk, Meta, Bluesky

11 points by JumpCrisscross 66 days ago | 9 comments

Bluesky seems to be caching the DNS TXT result indefinitely (github.com/bluesky-social)
I previously had an account with the handle @vagasprajr.com.br, but I deleted it. Now, I'm trying to use the same domain for a new account's custom handle, but Bluesky keeps using the old TXT record settings.

Social Media, DNS, Bluesky

6 points by ismaildonmez 66 days ago | 0 comments

Meta loses ground to Bluesky as users abandon Elon Musk's X (ft.com)

Social Media, Competition, Elon Musk, Meta, Bluesky

19 points by belter 66 days ago | 6 comments

The X (Twitter) to Bluesky Exodus (forbes.com)
X (formerly Twitter) users are leaving in droves to the social media site Bluesky—here’s why they’re leaving, and why they might not stay away.

Social Media, Twitter, Bluesky, Migrations, Social Networks

11 points by alex_suzuki 67 days ago | 4 comments

Using Bluesky Labelers to Show Campaign Funding Data (hipstersmoothie.com)
So lately I've been making a lot of things for Bluesky.

Social Media, Data Visualization, Bluesky

20 points by patak_dev 67 days ago | 1 comments

Bluesky Is Turning into a Strong X Alternative (nytimes.com)
After an hour or so of scrolling through Bluesky the other night, I felt something I haven’t felt on social media in a long time: free.

Social Media, Alternatives, Twitter, Bluesky, User Experience

20 points by howard941 67 days ago | 16 comments

Private School Labeler on Bluesky (simonwillison.net)
I am utterly delighted by this subversive use of Bluesky's labels feature, which allows you to subscribe to a custom application that then adds visible labels to profiles.

Social Media, Privacy, Social Networking, User Experience, Bluesky

40 points by tosh 67 days ago | 13 comments

How decentralized is Bluesky really? (dustycloud.org)
Recently due to various events (namely a lot of people getting off of X-Twitter), Bluesky has become a lot more popular, and excitement for its underlying protocol, ATProto, is growing.

Decentralization, Social Media, Bluesky, ATProto

87 points by todsacerdoti 68 days ago | 16 comments

Bluesky chief doesn't know age limit for users (bbc.com)
The chief executive of the social media network Bluesky - which has exploded in popularity in recent weeks - was unable to give the correct age limit for users on the platform in an interview with the BBC.

Social Media, Bluesky, Age Restrictions

3 points by colinprince 68 days ago | 1 comments

Bluesky Tech Starter Pack (github.com/stevendborrelli)
A list of tech-related Bluesky starter packs compiled by Steven Borrelli https://bsky.app/profile/stefanoborrelli.bsky.social.