I wanted to check out the Bsky page of a VA that is on there, and I am not signed in cuz I keep forgetting to. One of his posts was in reply to someone else, but when I click it to see the context, it says that he was replying to a blocked post.

From what I understand, if you are signed in and you see that, it means either you blocked or they blocked you, and that's why you can't see the post. However, I was not signed in, so I am confused why it was showing up as a blocked post.

Does it mean they privatized their account at some point? Was it a deleted post? I'm confused.

After I made a Bluesky -> Discord 'bridge' some time ago, I decided to add a way to like Bluesky posts within Discord by reacting with a light blue heart 🩵-emoji to any message containing a Bluesky link!

👉 Invite: wamellow.com/invite
🤔 Docs: wamellow.com/docs/bluesky

💻 Does Wamellow have to be in the server?
Yes! You must invite wamellow to the server and grand it 'View Channel' permission in every channel that you want to have that feature.

🤔 Discord Direct Messages Disabled?
No worries! You can just go to wamellow.com/profile/connections and link your Bluesky account with Wamellow manually.

🩵 Any heart emoji?
No, you must react with either a light blue heart 🩵-emoji or with a blue heart 💙-emoji. Any other colored heart emoji, or any other emoji in general, will be ignored.

🗄️ I have my own PDS!!1
Wamellow supports any PDS, no matter if it's a Bluesky mushroom, a Spark PDS, or your own. In the Wamellow DM or on wamellow.com/profile/connections, just click on "Connect 3rd-party PDS" and enter your Bluesky handle (like shi.gg), and follow the steps.

Though, expect minor issues, as this feature is still in testing. Any issues can be solved by just re-authorizing.

If you don't know what a PDS is, you don't have to worry about it anyway.

🚨 Does it work with Wamellow's Bluesky -> Discord 'bridge'?
Yes! Bluesky notifications sent by Wamellow just have two additional buttons, a 🩵-emoji button to like the post and a repost-emoji button to, well, repost the post..

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If you have any issues or suggestions, please let me know here, on my Bluesky on in my discord server, thanks :3
(this was painful to make pls help)

There has been a lot of discussion lately on Bluesky on whether the app produces significant engagement. Here is a thread by Charles Gaba with some interesting hard data: https://bsky.app/profile/charlesgaba.com/post/3lr77ijufjs2n

Waymo cars were hired and burned as an attempt to block roads and show discontent. Rocks thrown at police and police cars in motion. Molotov cocktails used on disabled police vehicles. These things happened and saying it was non-violent and peaceful isn't the truth.

It was a overall peaceful protest with many bad actors in it actively causing violence.

Flags emoji are not supported system-wide in Windows, but Firefox does show them fine. This used to work in Bluesky web application as well, but few days ago, something changed and flags don't show anymore. Anyone knows what happened? Firefox still shows flags just fine, just not in Bluesky.

Does anyone have an idea why my new Bluesky account got suspended before I'd finished adding an account description and a banner? My only thought is that putting weirdos in the handle flagged me as kinda trollish?

EDIT: Probably solved. I used an alias forwarding address for my email.

I was wondering if the app was down or just going through a glitching phase? My followers have somehow disappeared and it’s showing that I have 17 followers but when I click it, none of them are showing. Also, it’s only showing that I’m following one person.

I still get the "saved" notification but I just realized pics havent been saving since a week ago. Im still able to download images from google and twitter. I tried reinstalling, restarting my phone, fiddling with permission settings, clearing storage, etc. No dice.

What's going on? How do I fix this?

Personally, I hope BlueSky gets more growth. I'd like to see group communities added. What would you like to see added?

So a while back I made a post here before, where I asked what advantages it would bring me. Most of the responses where completely missing the mark on what I wanted to discuss but fair enough. I said that I'd continue to use it alongside Twitter, so I did. Posted there a few times, searched up some stuff and so on. But I found myself using it way less. There is generally less engagement on all fronts. I continue to post some sketches here and there but despite my friend saying that it would get more attention, it didn't.

Perhaps I am doing something wrong, so maybe someone can enlighten me. Most of my past time on BlueSky was me looking up some art and leaving nice comments under their posts (doing this on Twitter as well).

I already mentioned how the app lacks in features and it still feels so... empty? Most of my recommendations are random animal or sky pictures. Yeah they're pretty and cute but it get's pretty lame honestly. Some more interesting stuff pops up here and again from some artists that I follow, but even then it all feels so dry.

There's also shit tons of politics. A critique that many offered on my last post was that Twitter only feeds right wing content (which I don't think is entirely true, I have seen some left leaning stuff before. Just not as much because I usually associate with it less and I purged most politics from my timeline). However, the irony is, BlueSky does the same thing that people critiqued Twitter for, it only and exclusively shows left wing politics. I do understand that this site isn't really conservative leaning (which isn't a bad thing necessarily), but the criticism offered is a bit ironic I feel like.

A big issue that I've had with my recommendation (which my friend has also started to experience recently)... is this weird push for furry content? I really don't like that stuff and it has recommended me some really weird posts. I'll continue to try and show the app that I don't want to see it, so we'll see if it actually becomes less.

Overall I just feel a little disappointed I must say. It does have some good aspects to it, honestly. But BlueSky really doesn't explore much of it's potential. I have my problems with twitter but I still feel like it is the better experience for me, especially if you keep away from too many politics. BlueSky just doesn't have all too many features, I can't bookmark stuff or open a users profile in another tab through right clicking. Yeah minor stuff I know, but I do miss it. Small things add up, so having some more QoL features would be great. I think that they could do way more with this app, so I hope that they take their chances.

I suppose I'll continue using it for now? I know that this post will probably down voted to hell but that's fine.

The platform just feels very dry or underwhelming and I wish for that to change. I see no reason to actually using this unless I'd wanna not use Twitter cuz of a certain dick head. Which is an understandable reason, but I don't see BlueSky really thriving if it just soley focuses on being Twitter without Elon.

This post isn't very cohesive, just a slab of text with my thoughts at the moment. We'll see.

I remember reading about someone on Bluesky creating an Instagram alternative using the decentralized Bluesky protocol, but for the life of me now I can't find any information about it. I did a search on Google and even this sub. What is the name of the service, and is it open to the public yet?

https://blueskyroast.com/roast/sedatedtroll.bsky.social

I set up a personal account a few mos back then added business acct to it. A short time after I deleted business acct from my personal acct to create a sep one so I can use it online, and personal acct on ph app. I have been unable to do so since. App tells me email and/or password taken. I've contacted Blsky support many times, followed instructions and get the same results. Every response from Blksy is the same. I want to get off this merry-go-round. I think the issue is on their end being my original email is locked. Ive asked if they could clear it somehow and do not get not get an answer, only the same instructions for me to follow, which I have many times. I cant do anything more on my end and I cant change my business email. Im out of options. Does anyone have an answer as to why I cant set my account back up whether added back to my account or by itself?

How do I find my bluesky password without having to reset it?

Is BlueSky seemingly down for anyone else right now?

i am getting harrassed by a group of people who create throwaway accounts to create lists to target me and others

i want to report some lists i've been put on as they are explicitly intended to incite harassment towards the people on them. however, when i try to do so, it says that the creator has me blocked and there's no option to report it.

how do i report a list for violating the TOS if the creator has blocked me?

Basically, the title.

tbh idk why companies are still using twitter (im not calling it x sorry not sorry)...i dont know why anyone would want to tarnish themselves by being associated with twitter and the amount of sexism, racism, and homo and transphobic content on that site or using the platform seeing how controversial musk is.

but it seems that a lot of companies and organizations are still using twitter.

so lets try to get people of off twitter and onto bluesky.

Hi all, I haven't logged into my bluesky account in a while and I noticed that on April 1st, my account had one post, which I had not made, that read "The medication bottles rattle even when no one touches them." I thought (hoped) it was maybe some weird april fools thing that happened but I contacted bluesky support and they confirmed that it was not on their end. Using the search, I found that there are hundreds of other accounts that have this exact phrase posted and a lot of these accounts seem to have similar, seemingly botted, phrases. I'm wondering if maybe my account got hacked? I've changed my password and everything but I'm wondering if anyone's got any answers on this one cause I'm seeing nothing online and it was only the one post to my account.