After a whirlwind 2025, we took a pause to reflect on what 2026 might bring, and how Bluesky can help build the sort of future we all want to see online. Check out a few of our predictions, and let us know if you agree: bsky.social/about/blog/0...

bsky.storage is an independent project that automates periodic account data backups to a storage network, and has a UI for PLC identity backup and recovery tools like this give users stronger control of their online future, without needing to self-host an entire PDS

Some days, the good things aren’t easy to find. But if you’re looking, you’ll see plenty around. It’s in the background and out in plain sight. Good things happen all the time. - Layup 🎶

Dr. Anthony Fauci urges Americans not to accept "Normalization of Untruths".

I called Canadian Premiers Doug Ford and Wab Kinew today as we try to find a way through this unnecessary and costly trade war. While the President may not value the partnerships that contribute billions of dollars to our economy, Minnesota does.

Your overwhelm is the goal. The 200+ executive orders in Trump’s first days exemplifies @naomiaklein.bsky.social’s Shock Doctrine using chaos and crisis to push through radical changes while people are too disoriented to effectively resist.

We had to get in on the video action too — Bluesky now has custom feeds for video! Like any other feed, you can choose to pin these or not. Bluesky is yours to customize.

In the meantime, try @bookmarks.bluecanary.dev . You report a post to it to add to your bookmarks, and report again to remove. It exposes a feed of your bookmarks back to you that you then pin to your blueaky feeds lists Works well for me. No silly public pushpin emoji. @bsky.app should promote it

Give me 2 minutes, and I'll teach you how @bsky.app works (not joking):

What a year! Bluesky opened its doors just last February. Since then, we opened federation, launched video, rolled out trending topics, and a whole lot more. Happy New Year, and here’s to a great year ahead! 🎉

Everything you know about wrinkly fingers is probably wrong. Particularly, it is not a physical act of water on the body, it is a neurological effect of the body on itself. People who have fingers with severed nerves do not prune on those fingers.

In the past month alone, over 12M people joined Bluesky, with daily active users growing 10x. We received more reports in two days than in all of last year, and have integrated new systems and quadrupled our moderation team to try and keep up. Sometimes, we have to work quickly to correct errors.

Merry Christmas from us to you 🎄🎁💙 We launched Trending Topics today, and you can find it by tapping the search icon on the bottom bar of the app or the right sidebar on desktop.

Welcome to return to sanity in our echo chamber for thinkers, helpers and doers

#BlackList2024 arrives Tuesday, December 10th at 9AM PT. Follow us on Threads and Bluesky. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WXd...

despite the world becoming scary i still have a perhaps niave but unwaivering belief that a better world is possible

It took a few days to a couple of weeks to get verified on Twitter. On Bluesky, you can self-verify in minutes with your website as your username. Plus, our moderation team is labeling impersonation accounts within days (not weeks)!

The deep goal of bluesky is to decentralize the social internet so that every individual controls their experience of it rather than having it be controlled by 5 random billionaires. Everyone thinks they signed up for a demuskified twitter...we actually signed an exciting and bizarre experiment.

While Bluesky looks like other social apps on the surface, it’s actually quite different. It’s an open network. I blogged about it here:

By popular request, here's how to add Bluesky replies as your blog's comment section! This requires some technical know-how for now, but I'm hoping that we see some no-code solutions for this pop up soon, like Ghost or Wordpress plugins. emilyliu.me/blog/comments

Looking for common ground on which we can plant seeds for the future.

saying “don’t be evil” doesn’t mean anything if we can’t hold them accountable for it *everything* we do is open source — the code for both the protocol & the social app is public. if we ever went rogue, people could take the reins from us easily

the internet is not separate from real life at this point — i’ve spent too many years on various platforms making real friendships, finding jobs, etc to believe that distinction so our social identities & relationships online should be under our own control, not a private company’s

one of bluesky’s mottos is “the company is a future adversary,” so we have to design this service in a way that preserves user choice & freedom users should own their data, identity, and relationships on the social internet, and devs should never get locked out of the ecosystems that they build

Bluesky's firehose is a treasure trove of public data for researchers and developers, and it's completely free. Check out our developer docs: docs.bsky.app

Bluesky explained in 60 seconds!

8. Bluesky is an open ecosystem with an API that is guaranteed to always be open to developers. Developers, we're eager to see what you create! Our API docs are here. docs.bsky.app

6. Custom feeds on Bluesky are the first implementation of algorithmic choice. Instead of using a single black-box For You algorithm, you can create and subscribe to your own. Now, there are over 50k+ custom feeds on the network! Check them out: bsky.app/feeds

2. Here's an image from a presentation I gave to Twitter, representing the Twitter bird freed from a closed platform to fly in Bluesky's open ecosystem.

resolved: people who insist that all social media sites must be places where users are constantly encountering and arguing with people over fundamental disagreement do so because their actual, real lives are echo chambers where they do not encounter any meaningful difference from day-to-day.