Bluesky

Bluesky PBLLC

About this app

Bluesky is the social app built for better conversations. Find your people, follow what you care about, and have fun online again — without ads or engagement traps.

JOIN THE MOMENT

See what people are talking about right now. From breaking news to big cultural moments, jump into conversations as they unfold and be part of what's happening.

EXPLORE FEEDS

Choose from thousands of community-built feeds covering news, art, pets, science, fandom, investing, culture, and everything in between. Stay updated with people you care about in your Following feed, or dive into new perspectives and trends in Discover.

CONTROL YOUR SCROLL

Use powerful moderation tools and content filters to shape exactly what you see. Hide what you don't want, follow what you do, and decide who can interact with you.

JUMP RIGHT IN

Starter Packs help you get going fast. Follow curated lists of interesting people with one tap and start building your community instantly.

AVOID THE BILLIONAIRES

The internet is too important to be controlled by a handful of powerful people. Bluesky is building an open, community-driven foundation for the social internet. With one account, you can use the Bluesky app and take your identity anywhere on the growing ecosystem of apps built on the same protocol.

Ratings and reviews

Need a way to remove unwanted followers since blocking doesn't do it (which it should), there's no way of making your account private (which there should be), and the spam accounts are really starting to roll in. Needs to stop refreshing feed and jumping to the top/most recent posts if away from the app for a bit. Should always pick up where you left off. You have the capability to refresh to the top of the feed if you want; forcing it is why I don't engage with FB and Instagram.

When the app works, it's great. But when it DOESN'T work, which is 80% of the time, I keep experiencing freezes, crashes, profiles not loading no matter how many times I back out and reopen it, and overall, the app just straight up doesn't work. It needs SEVERAL bugfixes before I would ever recommend using this over the website. At least the website functions more often than not compared to the app.

The app developers and execs tell us there are no algorithms, but after several friends have told me they don't see my posts in their feeds due to a certain subject material, I strongly disagree. Beyond this, the app does not function well at all. I follow a few hundred profiles, but when I go to see specific ones, they don't appear in my "Following" list. And they don't clear out the spam bots, so even though it shows I have over 10k followers, only a few hundred of them are actual people.

What’s new

We have a big update for you this week!

Group chats are here.

You can now start a private chat with up to 50 people. Make an invite link, drop it on Bluesky, share it anywhere. Your group, your people.

We also added a new share button to your profile. Tap it to get a personalized QR code that links straight to you. Stick it anywhere and people can scan it to find you on Bluesky.