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social-app

The Bluesky Social application for Web, iOS, and Android

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What it is

The Bluesky Social application for Web, iOS, and Android

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Where it is used

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Observed mentions: 2023-05-15 22:17:26 UTC to 2026-08-26 18:25:00 UTC.

0510152023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 2 submissions, 2 comments20232024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 13 mentions; 3 submissions, 10 comments20242025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 8 mentions; 0 submissions, 8 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

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20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC808
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303

What Hacker News says

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big_toast·Aug 12, 2026
'show more/less like this' should work[0] with cowboy's for you feed. 'more/less' was proprietary for discover but they've rolled it out to other feeds now[1]. I think it's part of an interactions object passed to the feed operator. You can see what's potentially passed here[2]. [0]:https://bsky.app/profile/spacecowboy17.bsky.social/post/3lxx... [1]:https://github.com/bluesky-social/social-app/pull/8672 [2]:https://endpoints.bsky.app/#bluesky-app/tag/appbskyfeed/POST...
In Bluesky's active user base is shrinking as its focus expands beyond the app
steveklabnik·Apr 21, 2025
> Do they? I didn't observe any breaks when I did my DNS verification. I went to one of my posts and clicked "copy link to post." that gives me an URL like this: https://bsky.app/profile/steveklabnik.com/post/3lndppxy7xc2a If I change my account to `steveklabniklol.com`, then this URL wouldn't work, as that url turns into https://bsky.app/profile/steveklabniklol.com/post/3lndppxy7x... See here for more: https://github.com/bluesky-social/social-app/issues/1221 > People are paying attention to the Display Handle and not the address one I agree, and that's why people don't like changing it. > it doesn't seem like Bluesky's implementation will do this It does.
In A new form of verification on Bluesky
verdverm·Feb 19, 2025
The App View frontend is open source: https://github.com/bluesky-social/social-app Much of the backend is open source as well: https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto/tree/main/packages What is not are the extra services they run to provide a better and faster UX. Even if it was open source, it likely costs 10s of thousands to run per month (they have moved largely to "onprem" hardware instead of the cloud aiui)
In When imperfect systems are good: Bluesky's lossy timelines
nastoy·Feb 15, 2025
Agreed and there's also the problem that on Bluesky, one user blocking another means that the thread of conversation gets broken for everyone else who may read it. See e.g. https://github.com/bluesky-social/social-app/issues/7021 > As it stands, if 20 people are involved in a discussion, and ONE single person decides to block someone, then all of a sudden, the 19 other people in the discussion (+ any other viewers) are now inconvenienced simply because one person had an issue with someone else. > Bluesky does have a bit of a block culture, and as such, this issue is only going to get worse and worse, and threads are going to get harder and harder to read and follow as more and more people get blocked. Trying to create a Reddit-like experience around this limitation would be very difficult, as the thread breakage is done server-side so the
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clients don't even get enough info to reconstruct the conversation.
In Show HN: I Built a Reddit-style Bluesky client – still rough, but open to ideas
nastoy·Jan 19, 2025
You have misunderstood. The way Bluesky blocking works is not just about controlling who else can interact with your posts, it affects the posts of others too, and applies to every other user whether they like it or not. See https://github.com/bluesky-social/social-app/issues/7021 for more detail. A relevant comment from that issue: > As it stands, if 20 people are involved in a discussion, and ONE single person decides to block someone, then all of a sudden, the 19 other people in the discussion (+ any other viewers) are now inconvenienced simply because one person had an issue with someone else. > Bluesky does have a bit of a block culture, and as such, this issue is only going to get worse and worse, and threads are going to get harder and harder to read and follow as more and more people get blocked. > Just the other day I got a notif
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ication, and I clicked on it, and once again, the post they were replying to was "blocked", not because of me, but because the person who made the post blocked the person they were responding to. I was trying to make sense of their post, but now I couldn't as I had no idea what the hell they were replying to... then I think I found the post they replied to; it showed "1 reply", but when I clicked on it, no replies were shown. > Now, this functionality was probably done with good intentions - but you know what they say, "The road to hell is paved with good intentions". Another comment explaining the problem: > This is working as intended but I agree it should be reassessed. For example: > 1. In a popular thread, User A posts some nonsense > 2. User B replies to that reply explaining why it's nonsense > 3. User A blocks User B > 4. Now User A has successfully hidden the rebuttal to his comment from everyone. The only defense against this is if the thread OP happens to block User A. > This is a pretty serious downside of the "nuclear block" system imo. It creates an escalation ladder of blocking where the first user to hit "block" is advantaged. On the other hand it causes me personally to avoid blocking where I otherwise would, because I want the conversation to still be visible for others. > There should at least be a "show reply" button on posts that are hidden for this reason IMO. Otherwise you've given every user the unilateral power to hide a reply, for everyone, permanently. If I hide a reply the normal way, it's not deleted for everyone! There is a "show hidden reply" button! The effect of hiding someone else's reply should be consistent across these two ways to do it.
In We need to protect the protocol that runs Bluesky
Retr0id·Dec 9, 2024
For now! The bluesky URL contains "itch.io" (their handle), and under atproto, DNS name resolution is actually an integral part of handle resolution. It will start 404ing if/when relevant caches expire. This one uses the "DID", not the handle, and will not 404: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:oy37ivqnriw6nx3lrbcht2u3/po... (cc dang) Open issue regarding making bsky URLs less fragile while also not looking ugly: https://github.com/bluesky-social/social-app/issues/1221
In Itch.io Taken Down by Funko
consumer451·Nov 13, 2024
Bluesky is growing at around 10 accounts/second as of an hour ago. This has put their iOS app [0] in the top position under free apps, [1] in the USA and UK App Stores. The app is MIT licensed open source. Others and myself are wondering, is their #1 position in the iOS free app category a first for an open source app? (please note that this is all apps, not just social media) [0] https://github.com/bluesky-social/social-app [1] https://imgur.com/gallery/gHuwrrw
In Ask HN: Bluesky is #1 in the U.S. App Store. Is this a first for open source?

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