Glad to see more folks are finally hopping on to the only good large* social network! It’s free, open-source, and federated, but you probably don’t care, so it doesn’t make you care; you’ll never notice unless you go looking for it. It’s ad-free, it’s highly customizable, it’s got an incredible block feature, it doesn’t shove fascism into your eyeballs 24/7 whether you like it or not. And now that everyone sees twitter for what it is–a nazi site for nazis–it’s got a lot of the accounts you know and love, and not just artists, trans shitposters, nerds, and the various intersections thereof.
So I thought I’d share some advice on getting started, plus a few philosophical notes. (Signup link)
After an obligatory cat pic of course. Here’s Momo looking enormous thanks to the power of perspective!
Getting started
1. Deprogram yourself
If you’re coming from twitter, you’re fucked in the head, but it’s not your fault. An aggressive algorithmic feed, tweaked by a white supremacist, that suppresses links and optimizes for ragebait, has primed you for a fight-or-flight response when you open the app. The promotion of nazis to the top of every thread has you looking for nazis around every corner. Social media doesn’t have to be like that–but it might take you a minute to undo ten+ years of billionaires trying to convince you otherwise.
It’s time to take a deep breath, roll up your sleeves, and get to work defining your experience for yourself.
2. Check out lists and starter packs
Bluesky does offer two in-house algorithmic feeds–“Discover” and “Popular with Friends”–but all they do is identify and track what topics interest you and your network, and serve you that content. (Pro-tip on Discover: if you click the … button next to a post you see there, you get “show more/less of this” options you can use to help train it.) But the main feed is just your reverse-chronological following feed. So it’s probably a good idea to follow a few people. To make this easy, bluesky has “starter packs”–lists of accounts that anybody can make, that you can follow with just one click. You can search starter packs here–sorting by “uses” will show you the most popular ones, such as a list of politics posters by lolgop, journalists, and legal experts. And of course, a starter pack of balloon-juice peeps (and other good accounts) by mousebumples! You can also search for starter packs by keyword for any special interests you might have.
I also recommend Joshua J. Friedman, who some call the mayor of bluesky.
Some people also make lists instead of starter packs, but there’s no search engine for them. For example, here’s a list of BJ peeps. The users on the list are under the “about” tab; you’ll notice there’s also a “posts” tab and a big “pin to home” button, which brings us to our next very important feature…
3. Follow lots of feeds and change one very important setting
Feeds! Feeds are super cool. Under the hood, a feed is an application that takes API requests and returns posts–which means that a feed can be anything the feed designer wants it to be. Most of them just pull from user lists or match certain words, #hashtags, and/or emojis, but there are more sophisticated ones, too. For example, this feed uses AI to locate cat pictures for you. You can find more feeds with this search engine. Popular ones include science, booksky, blacksky, astronomy, and birds. I also enjoy timeline cleanse and dream logs. Also a special shout-out to the gardening feed, which shares posts by opted-in users that include the seedling emoji 🌱. Check out this thread to see how to get added.
Feeds, just like user lists, have a big “pin to home” button on them. This adds the feed to the right column of the app (on desktop), or as tabs on top of the app (on mobile).
There is also a very neat setting that injects selected posts from feeds right into your following feed. Settings > following feed preferences > “show posts from my feeds”. Highly recommended!
4. Engage!
Bluesky won’t build your following for you. You’ll need to post and reply to people to make it happen. (Smaller accounts are a lot more likely to read your replies; big ones are more likely to have “priority notifications” turned on.) Humor is almost always appreciated, too, though do remember that the failure mode of “clever” is “asshole”.
Also, you can probably get your posts on a lot of feeds just by including the right hashtag or emoji, so there’s a cheap way to get eyeballs on them. Following What’s Mid can also get your stuff out there; it reposts popular-but-not-that-popular posts of yours.
MazeDancer also notes:
And may I plead, again, that you spruce up before you do that. Post 3 or 4 things. Put up a banner. Otherwise, people won’t know who you are – or if you are even a person – or if they would like to follow back.
5. Stop worrying and learn to love the nuclear block
Bluesky has a “block early, block often” ethos. When you block somebody, all your interactions are obliterated. If they have quote-posted you, nobody can see what they are quote-posting (and vice-versa). Threads involving the two of you will be chopped up into little pieces, making them nearly impossible to follow, for anybody. This is a slightly controversial feature but I like it. If somebody quote-dunks you but you don’t want to block them, you can also “detach” it to mimic the blocked-quote behavior.
6. A word about labelers
Bluesky supports third-party labeling services, which attach labels to accounts and posts. This can be used for moderation, or for fun, or just generally to improve your experience. I enjoy xblock, which lets you put twitter screenshots behind a warning; and yardcrow, which gives accounts compliments. There are many more but I don’t think there’s a centralized repository yet. Once you’ve added one, you can adjust how it works in…
7. Tweak your moderation settings
Settings > moderation. Here you can enable/disable/tweak adult content labels (might have to do on desktop if you have an iphone), and adjust how your labeling services work. You can also mute words and hashtags, temporarily or permanently. Also going to give a shout-out to my “tankies and shit” mute/block list, which is full of authoritarian communists, Hamas supporters, and other assorted miscreants. The button says ‘subscribe’, but that means ‘so you can mute or block all of these people at once’.
And now for something completely different: what’s under the hood?
*(I say ‘large’ because bluesky’s protocol is about broadcasting your actions widely so they can be seen by anybody, whereas mastodon’s is about instance-to-instance agreements for 1:1 communication; a ‘big world’ vs. ‘small world’ approach that they are optimized separately for. I wrote earlier about the key philosophical differences here, as well as how the architecture reflects & supports this.)
Philosophy: The company is a future adversary
That’s part of their mission statement and baked in to the architecture. At a protocol level, most of this has already been realized, though nobody’s built easy buttons for it yet. You own your posts and your social graph; moving everything to a different host is a simple (to me 😛) cryptographic operation that will become friendlier. Already thousands of daily users are hosting their own data. Since the architecture is broadcast-based, the API is by definition free and open, so anybody can build an app without worrying about needing to pay access fees in the future. (People really seem to like deck.blue, a tweetdeck-inspired site/app, though there are several others.) Each primary layer of the open-source protocol has open-source reference implementations, so in the event that Bluesky LLC goes to shit, there will be alternative ways to connect without losing your content, follows, or followers. Team & community members are currently benchmarking independent hosting costs for these and simplifying deployment.
Bluesky is only a couple years old, and does not have a lot of money relative to most services, so the federation isn’t exactly turnkey, but it’s getting there. (The technology was meant to be developed with twitter’s money as a free and open alternative that would eventually be used under the hood, but they got cut off for obvious reasons, and they’ve ended up having to focus on things like “running a social network” at the same time.)
See my earlier links for more details on this than you probably want.
Hope this was helpful!
Old School
Thanks!
I guess all the cool kids are joining Bluesky.
The Audacity of Krope
@Old School: There’s a place I’ve been going only for the most elite cool folk, it’s called IRL.
japa21
Broke down and joined.
ETA: When I first joined Twitter, way back in 2008 or 2009, I posted a lot. Then when Trump won in 2016, pretty much stopped, and just used it to follow some sports writers. Maybe I’ll start posting again,
cain
So, who owns the protocol on which it runs on out of curiosity? I went back to your own links and remembered it was a Public Benefit Limited Liability Corporation.
I’ve worked for a company that was organized into a public benefit liability company in Washington. There are as far as I’m aware any controls on such a class of corporations. The company I was part of continued to scam people. There is no real way as far as the people who complained to the attorney general of Washington to have any leverage.
I hope it works out. I trust the non-profit folks, and I know some of the people who follow me and I follow them who work on the mastodon protocol.
Old School
@The Audacity of Krope: You’ve had better luck IRL than I have. I mostly just hang out with my family.
Oh, and I spend time at a blog.
Baud
Thanks, M^4.
BellyCat
Thanks for the great tips M4!
Kristine
Thanks for the deck.blue tip!
Reminds me of how much I missed tweetdeck when they killed it.
Major Major Major Major
@cain:
The protocol github repos are managed by the company, if that’s what you mean, but also the cat’s out of the bag insofar as they have been published and are in a pretty good place right now for the purpose of microblogging. (You’d need to “extend the lexicon” to build something like Reddit, and make a new kind of service for the AppView layer, but nothing is stopping you.)
But, also, they can change the protocol at any time, and as the flagship implementation they have 800-pound-gorilla privileges.
The Audacity of Krope
@Old School: It took a long time. I went through my teens and early 20s basically friendless. I have trouble relating to others…a lot of the time. Some mild autism spectrum things going on.
As I moved into professional life and observed myself interacting much more comfortably with others on a professional basis, I adapted a lot of those skills to my attempts at socializing; smile anytime you meet someone’s eyes, greet, observe needs. Congeniality got me a lot farther than understanding and trying to replicate “cool” behavior ever did.
People came and went and most of that struggle is 20 years in the rearview mirror by now, but I am surrounded by a good cohort of generally supportive people, now. I’d be lying if I even said at this point, though, that more than a couple had any true idea where my head was at most of the time.
Baud
@The Audacity of Krope:
I tried to join, but they rejected my application.
The Audacity of Krope
@Baud: IRL, most of us wear pants at most times in mixed company.
eclare
@Baud:
Hahaha…
Baud
Strange people keep following me on Bluesky. Is that normal?
cain
@Major Major Major Major: Looks like activitypub is ahead there when it comes to extending. Maybe it will catch up.
cain
@Baud: Don’t worry, I won’t! Trust in me ;)
Omnes Omnibus
@Baud: Define strange.
Baud
@The Audacity of Krope:
I’m intrigued by the double use of “most” in that sentence.
The Audacity of Krope
Christ, you folk got me considering going bluesky now. I suppose I ought to familiarize myself with social media if I expect to effect positive change.
Baud
@Omnes Omnibus:
Stranger danger strange.
The Audacity of Krope
@Baud: Well, you see, there are times when we are in mixed company and still don’t wear pants. These moments are rare but I have found them among the most satisfying.
Only strange people follow me on the Xhitpile former known as Twitter.
FlyingToaster
@Baud: I’m not THAT strange.
Oh, wait…
opiejeanne
I’m trying to figure out where the black twitter people are going, the ones that I follow. So far I haven’t seen Chris Evans make a move. There are several that I really like and that I’d like to not lose.
opiejeanne
@FlyingToaster: I thought he was talking about me.
dc
Can Bluesky accounts be followed from Mastodon the way Threads can?
FDRLincoln
I’ll join at some point soon but reading this help post has left me more confused than ever. I hope it will make more sense once I join.
MazeDancer
Yay, M4!
You really do have to follow people to have any sort of life on BlueSky.
And may I plead, again, that you spruce up before you do that. Post 3 or 4 things. Put up a banner. Otherwise, people won’t know who you are – or if you are even a person – or if they would like to follow back.
And, please, if you are on BJ, indicate that. Put something in your bio, so people know they want to follow you back. I added “MazeDancer on certain Top 10,000 blogs” – feel free to use – since my BlueSky nym, same as Twitter, is Fifth House Sun. @fifthhousesun.bsky.social
For those of you who know what this means: darth is on BlueSky. Has been for awhile. Though he is likely to go into hibernation soon. So get it while you can,
Kelly
Jerry Jeff Walker performs Keith Sykes song “I’m not Strange”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APPpXbp9Pxw&ab_channel=JerryJeffWalker-Topic
Major Major Major Major
@cain: Yeah, right now people are focusing on third-party alternatives for the key infrastructure. They made different tradeoffs than the ActivityPub folks did, and it’s a much younger project (tho it’s had more monthly active users for a while now ;)
Omnes Omnibus
@Baud: Steve in the WTF followed you?
Steve Holmes
There are a lot of new people on Bluesky and the people I had follow have been clogging my feed retweeting the new folks. Unfortunately this caused my feed to become disturbingly lefty political and freaked me out. I screamed “Serenity Now”.
Fortunately Bluesky lists work and I moved the worst retweet offenders to a private “political” list, and unfollowed them. If I want to take a peak I can, but my feed is back to baseline again.
MazeDancer
@Baud: Listen to M4 about the benefits of blocking
eclare
@opiejeanne:
My local public utility and zoo are on Twitter, so I’m staying for now. I do not use the algorithm, and I don’t read or make comments, so I don’t see the bad stuff. Also I only follow about a dozen accounts.
Baud
@MazeDancer:
I haven’t had to block anyone yet. But I haven’t been that active.
@Omnes Omnibus:
I’m pretty sure I’ve blocked him in advance.
Baud
What’s the difference between blocking and muting again?
karen marie
I want an apology from everyone on Bluesky who complains that “Mastodon is too complicated.”
Baud
@karen marie:
Should they post their apologies on Bluesky?
HinTN
@Baud: We knew you to be the bot you are. 🍾
Major Major Major Major
@karen marie:
These are all optional features. If Mastodon had these I’d be ecstatic. If you want to replicate the mastodon experience, just follow people and use the chronological feed.
And since you’re really trying to replicate the mastodon experience, make sure to get decision fatigue before you’ve even created your account, and click around randomly a bunch before you follow somebody, then hide all the posts they made before you followed them.
@Baud: the people who (rightly) find mastodon too complicated are definitely not going to be posting them on mastodon.
The Audacity of Krope
@Major Major Major Major: Ooh, shots fired…🔫🔫🔫
HinTN
@The Audacity of Krope: I remember John Aravosis asking, in a serious way, how anything limited to 140 characters was going to be of any import. I’ve never tweeted, certainly never xitted, and ain’t about to start whatever Blue Sky calls their communiques. I respect what that medium is and can be but my time ain’t long and I’m not spending it there.
/grump 😘
dc
@karen marie: I don’t find Mastodon complicated at all. This BlueSky explanation seems complicated to me. However, I don’t try to do virtual somersaults over there and wouldn’t on BlueSky. I’m happy with Mastodon, I would like to be able to follow accounts on BlueSky the way I can follow accounts on Threads though. I read (on Mastodon) that there is a way to do it, but the BlueSky account has turn some option on.
FlyingToaster
@karen marie:
No.
Major Major Major Major
@dc:
Yes, kinda. It’s opt-in. I’m bridged both ways. Here’s a write-up: https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/05/bluesky-and-mastodon-users-can-now-talk-to-each-other-with-bridgy-fed/
The original implementation was opt-out, i.e. a mastodon user’s posts could be bridged to bluesky without their permission, which led to an absolutely hilarious github issues page with mastodon people calling the dev a rapist and worse. My favorite was “TransCommunist69” accusing him of wanting to create a list of vulnerable people that the nazis on bluesky could go harass (never mind that TransCommunist69 would have had a great time there).
HinTN
@Omnes Omnibus: I am upvoting this for a rotating tag.
Major Major Major Major
@The Audacity of Krope: I actually think mastodon is swell, though the newer activitypub implementations are a lot better. It’s just that mastodon isn’t twitter, and likes it that way. And that’s fine! But people who want more of a twitter-style experience, which is most people, will bounce off it.
The Audacity of Krope
@HinTN: Too inside ball?
opiejeanne
@eclare: On Twitter I have a carefully curated group of about 300 that I follow, and I rarely run into trolls first-hand, plus I’m not afraid to mute or block idjits even if I’ve never interacted with them. Usually someone else takes them on, and Chris Evans can be very entertaining.
FlyingToaster
@Baud: Blocking is public. Blocking is done at bsky.app (or somewhere upstream of your server, whether you’re on one of bsky’s servers or your own). Blocking means that you never see that toad again, and they never see you again.
Muting is private. Nobody but you knows. They can see you, but you don’t have to deal with them, unless you scroll down to the end of the thread and toggle to view the muted responses. It’s less in-your-face hostile.
twbrandt
@Baud: muting means you won’t see their posts, but they will see yours. blocking means you won’t see theirs, and they won’t see yours.
ETA: what FlyingToaster said
cain
@Major Major Major Major: Mastodon people are having a debate about bluesky. But many are queasy because of this press release:
https://bsky.social/about/blog/10-24-2024-series-a
where Blockchain Capital is giving them a lot of money. The press release claims that here will be no NFTs or what not and they have the same vision as Bluesky. (they also have a large stake in substack)
I would proceed with caution..
It could also be sour grapes by mastadon people, dunno.
Baud
@FlyingToaster:
@twbrandt:
Thanks.
opiejeanne
@Baud:
Never mind, everyone else explained it.
HinTN
@The Audacity of Krope: Never
dc
@Major Major Major Major: Are you on Mastodon or do you have your BlueSky account set to accept follows from Mastodon?
The Audacity of Krope
@HinTN: I’ve hated on Twitter since its inception and only joined somewhat recently because a long distance boyfriend I tried to maintain a few months showed me that it is useful for exploring obscure (not necessarily extreme) fetishes.
@Major Major Major Major: Understood.
cain
@Major Major Major Major:
Yikes that some toxic shit from mastodon people. They should know better.
FlyingToaster
@cain: That was the bad actor I couldn’t remember yesterday.
That is literally the biggest issue with BlueSky — some of their funding is from those (*^&)(&^%#@#.
Major Major Major Major
@FlyingToaster: To be a bit more specific…
Blocking is public. Blocks are events made by you and broadcast by you at the lowest level of the stack, which is necessary so that all implementations can see and honor them. Under the current network architecture it is more or less impossible to circumvent the nuclear block’s quote- and thread-blocking features unless you’re running your own AppView, which nobody really is yet.
Mutes are not broadcast to the network, but Bluesky LLC knows about them.
DMs are also managed by Bluesky LLC, so they’re as private as DMs most anywhere else, (and 50% more private than on mastodon), though they’re not encrypted yet.
The Audacity of Krope
@HinTN: I just think if an outsider comes for the first time and sees the rotating tags, they should have a chance at getting the joke. Some may disagree; not to be abbreviated as SMD, I quickly realized.
FlyingToaster
@Major Major Major Major: Thanks for clarifying, this is not an area where I’ve spent any time under the hood.
cain
@Major Major Major Major: I would never trust DMs on mastodon exactly because it isn’t encrypted. Hopefully will be fixed soon.
dc
I treated twitter the way I do Mastodon. I still have my account on Twitter (I need to download my tweets, then delete it) but I haven’t opened it since shortly after the Musk takeover. I “froze” it or “closed” it, but when I used Twitter I never used the algorithm, I only saw tweets and retweets of accounts I followed. And based on retweets, I would find more accounts worth following. I blocked any mention of Trump and Musk and that kept their mugs out of retweets. Though if someone was retweeting them a lot I stopped following them, I didn’t even want to see their criticisms or jokes about those assholes. On Mastodon, you can follow hashtags and also use the “explore” or “live feeds” functions to find more accounts. I follow the #FAFO hashtag and that way get more Ukraine content. I used to follow the #caturday hashtag, but the numbers were overwhelming.
Major Major Major Major
@cain: A lot of the activitypub community has been deranged about bluesky for two years. I really don’t get it. There’s some reciprocity, but not at the same level (the devs are fans), and not with the same vitriol. Personally I think mastodon is perfectly good at being mastodon, though Misskey/CalcKey are much better at it. It just doesn’t happen to be what I’m looking for.
The latest VC round did cause a bit of a stir, but the simplest explanation is that (like the rest of the board and most of the early backers) the fund believes in cryptographically-self-certifying decentralized technology.
And again, if the bsky.app implementation of the atproto AppView turns to shit, your data is yours, and people can keep the party going by running their own AppView.
cain
Personally, it is great that Bluesky is around – I rather not have Mastodon be the one true community square. Happy to just let Bluesky take that.
Being #2 is always a good thing, provider a somewhat lesser target to assholes, scammers, and bots.
twbrandt
@cain: masto can be really weird, but you can easily tune out the weirdness. i am active on a small instance where most of us know each other irl. very cozy.
Baud
@cain:
I actually like the Mastodon interface. But Bluesky seems to be where most folks are.
Major Major Major Major
@cain: iirc mastodon “DMs” are just posts with visibility limited to one other person. So security comes down to how posts are handled and stored and stuff. Is E2EE in the works for them?
dc
Can we share Mastodon accounts here? I’m @[email protected]
Mousebumples
@FlyingToaster: I was doing a lot of muting around Election Day. Maybe people will chill (maybe not) but I didn’t want to nuclear block someone who was having a tough time. (I get it! It sucks, but I wasn’t posting through it…)
I might still block some of them, but muted works, and I can unmute and refollow more easily.
Nukular Biskits
Excellent resource!
Ohio Mom
I haven’t joined Blue Sky yet, just lurking as the various people I follow on Twitter have announced their move to Blue Sky, and bookmarking those new addresses.
This may sound trivial, but Blue Sky much easier on these old eyes of mine than Twitter. And I am not dodging right wingers anymore or being sucked into reading ads.
It’s been interesting watching the trickle turn into a flood. Just one question, since there are no ads, who is paying for everything?
FlyingToaster
@Mousebumples: I’ve had a couple that I’ve gone and unmuted a month or two later.
Usually it’s the people who want you to address their edge case, right now. Um, no. Please go do your thing until you’re past whatever it is.
The judgemental little shits and the NAZIs, just fucking block already. They’re not gonna change. Quit giving them oxygen.
Major Major Major Major
@Ohio Mom:
Investors, for the foreseeable future. They’re working on proposals for premium features right now (e.g. “you can upload higher-quality videos” not “everybody has to see your posts”), but it’s possible there could be adds on the official implementation some day.
FlyingToaster
@Ohio Mom: They sell and set up domain names, which then give you a verified Bluesky handle. (You can also use your own existing domain, ala @scalzi.com, but they don’t get paid for it.)
As BlueSky becomes more feature-rich, they expect to have paid accounts for enhanced features — videos longer than 60 sec, for instance.
Right now they just went through a funding round and are spending the $ on adding servers. I think Jen* said they were currently provisioned for 20Mil, so they want the next bunch of servers running before the next EME**.
*Jen is the CEO.
** Elon Musk Event
Mousebumples
@FlyingToaster: 100%. And I love my block and mute lists! Numb.comfortab.ly has a bunch that are great, that I can link if there’s an interest.
Zelma
To demonstrate my absolute cluelessness, how does one get on Bluesky? I didn’t join Twitter until the Ukraine war and I maybe tweeted 3 times since then. I never saw any of the craziness on X because I had a carefully curated feed and I never clicked the “For You” icon. I got off X after the election. (At least I think I did). I kind of miss the immediacy of Twitter but I’m not sure I’m up to embarking on a new adventure. My excuse is that I’m almost 82 years old and am therefore a dinosaur.
Major Major Major Major
@FlyingToaster: CEO is Jay. I was very impressed with how well the servers handled the load of every Brazilian joining at once.
@Zelma: Go to https://bsky.app/ and click ‘sign up’ on the left.
FlyingToaster
@Major Major Major Major: But the poor 3rd party feed servers got hammered…
The latest round was much better:
BlueSkyFeeds got behind, 2 hours on 11/6, 5 hours on 11/7, and back to caught up on 11/8
SkyFeeds went down hard on 11/7. Back up by 11/8.
I saw several feeds running an hour or two behind up through 11/9, but they’re all back to normal now, AFAICT.
Not bad for picking up 100K+ daily since 11/5.
BlueSkyStats
Major Major Major Major
@FlyingToaster: oh nice
AnthroBabe
I’m on BlueSky and I used the BJ starter pack to follow all you jackals! If you see some rando called CMK Vaccinista follow you, that’s ME! :) Right now I am getting a lot of nature, bird, and cat content, which I appreciate! Have to look up old Twitter peeps in the coming days
To John: you are so close to me now, in Tempe…might we think of an Arizona/Phoenix meet up soon (before the damn snow in the north)?
dc
@Zelma: I think you just go here: https://bsky.app/
And click on sign up.
slybrarian
I’ve been on Bluesky for a couple months now, and I’ve found the vibe better and the site much easier to use. Thanks to moosebumples for putting together that starter pack.
Misterpuff
I have been on Bluesky for a while (since one of the FPers were giving out invites) and I enjoy it. It is not as intimate as this site but is so much more laidback than x-twitter (even before Elon submarined it).
Now that the influx has happened I used to the Starter pack to follow fellow jackals and have used the Block function to hose the Nazis.
Mousebumple, can you add me to the Starter pack so I can meet and greet the newbies from BJ?
And it’s a Skeet (you get use to it)!
Tenax
I’m only a lurker here, but I thought I’d toss in one of my favorite feeds: a feed of gift article links for various paywalled news media. I hope you find this useful.
Congratulations on everyone finally migrating off Twitter, or at least considering the escape hatches! Please respect the furries, trans-folk, and sex workers, as many of them have been there since pretty early on.
The return of Mo Salad
@Mousebumples: Please add me to the starter pack. markwade.bsky.social
Tony G
Nobody in my close family and none of my actual friends have a right-wing ideology, so I’m lucky that way. I have a few Trumpers in my extended family, but I normally see them only a couple of times each year and we’re careful to avoid politics in our conversations.
Mo MacArbie
My basic question is how people sign up. Are you you there? Do you use your usual email account? Do you use your actual birthday?
Major Major Major Major
@Mo MacArbie: You can lie about your birthday. And yeah it needs your email address. You can then verify your account with a text message or by completing an anti-bot workflow. Sign up button is on the left https://bsky.app
David Anderson
I’m over at Blue Sky at https://bsky.app/profile/dmaanderson.bsky.social