Reposted by Skyangles.comBrendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Welcome to Bluesky. Please familiarize yourself with the following accounts to understand the range of opinions it is acceptable to express 852810346
Reposted by Skyangles.comSimon Owens @simonowens.bsky.social · 26/08/2026X hasn’t won over many mainstream creators simonowens.substack.com/p/x-hasnt-wo...simonowens.substack.comX hasn’t won over many mainstream creatorsPLUS: What was the point of BuzzFeed’s HuffPost acquisition? 021
Reposted by Skyangles.comJay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 23/08/2026This is a big problem because the algorithms are feeding us content we don't want and yet they are hard--or sometimes impossible--to change. We have found that most people want greater control and transparency over what they see on social media: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...journals.sagepub.comPeople Think That Social Media Platforms Do (but Should Not) Amplify Divisive Content - Steve Rathje, Claire Robertson, William J. Brady, Jay J. Van Bavel, 2024Recent studies have documented the type of content that is most likely to spread widely, or go “viral,” on social media, yet little is known about people’s perc... 034
Reposted by Skyangles.comPavel @spavel.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Bluesky community notes would be incredible. All the notes would be like "this post is a distraction from the ORANGE CHEETO in the White House!!!" and have 16,000 votes from resister bots 151263117
Reposted by Skyangles.comNed Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 17/08/2026New Public Comment on the self-interested case for quitting X publiccomment.blog/p/it-is-past...publiccomment.blogIt Is Past Time for You to Quit Elon Musk's XYes, I'm talking to you. 🫵 10606155
Reposted by Skyangles.comKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 18/08/2026This is 100% why people who've been on X for years now get so weirdly bummed out by Bluesky or any other site. It isn't that bsky is a 'bubble', it's that being a shithead in the replies gets you an immediate nuclear-block, rather than immediately rewarded with Skinner-box treats404media.coX's Algorithm Feeds Off Ragebait and Impacts Democrats More, Study FindsX is driving engagement by making users fight in the replies. 6150051342
Reposted by Skyangles.comDavid M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Re: Bluesky influence. I just filed an essay that discusses the Reconstruction Papers published by @liberalcurrents.com. I learned about it via Bluesky. I connected with @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com over Bluesky. Now I'm going to put it in the local paper where non-Blueskiers will read it (maybe) 763865
Reposted by Skyangles.comLindsay Fickas @lindsayfickas.bsky.social · 13/08/2026My conspiracy is that threads is sending paid actors to come on here once a month and start a new “Bluesky is dead!” discourse 1722627
Reposted by Skyangles.comSarah Perez @sarahp.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Bluesky’s active user base is shrinking as its focus expands beyond the apptechcrunch.comBluesky’s active user base is shrinking as its focus expands beyond the app | TechCrunchOver a year following its post-election surge, Bluesky’s mobile app is seeing a continued decline in active users, though its remaining community is still relatively engaged. 409540
Reposted by Skyangles.comKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 10/08/2026I love when people come over to Bluesky to beg us to fight with them on X again. You lost! We’re not playing with you anymore! 974781393
Reposted by Skyangles.comDave Winer on Bluesky @scripting.com · 08/08/2026I'm a web developer so it's part of my religion to help other developers and even platform vendors. They always give me the hairy eyeball because they believe there's an ulterior motive. I guess there is -- my product is interop. Has been for a long time. scripting.com/2021/12/16/1...scripting.comMy product is interopIt's even worse than it appears. 092
Reposted by Skyangles.comWebDesignMuseum @webdesignmuseum.org · 07/08/2026On August 7, 2000, Scott Jarkoff, Matthew Stephens and Angelo Sotira founded an art community portal called DeviantArt. #InternetHistory 21782265
Reposted by Skyangles.comAndrew Lisowski 💻 @hipstersmoothie.com · 02/08/2026Everyone loooooves data ownership until you have to move Don’t believe what big atproto tells you, records are NOT portable 727014
Reposted by Skyangles.comLiz Ahern 🌈🇲🇽🏳️⚧️☮️ @austinmermaid.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Billy, the music loving dog is taken to the music hall filled with musicians practicing and listens for the sound that pleases him the most. It’s the cello. 🎻 He lays down basking in the waves of sounds he chose out of all the others. Music is the universal language. #DogsofBluesky #MusicSky 1515180902
Reposted by Skyangles.comJim Ray @jimray.bsky.team · 31/07/2026"As a Bluesky user, you own your data and have greater control over the algorithms that serve you content. Also, the platform is extremely publisher friendly and aims to ... be a quality partner to high-quality news sources." Love to hear it, @sf.gazetteer.co sf.gazetteer.co/reflections-... 827257
Reposted by Skyangles.comNitish Pahwa @nitishpahwa.com · 30/07/2026"Twitter is not real life"—Narendra Modi decodemail.boomlive.in/p/bjp-s-mach... 0112
Reposted by Skyangles.comCasey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Bluesky is actually really fun if you block the right 27,000 people 1568669
Reposted by Skyangles.comCedichou @cedichou.bsky.social · 30/07/2026[recycling an old joke about mansplaining] How did the bluesky commenter drown? It was in a well, actually 021
Reposted by Skyangles.comSarah Jones @sarahjones.bsky.social · 30/07/2026I love Bluesky, the website for people who like to make your own point at you, but more pedantically 1649647
Reposted by Skyangles.comCross-laminated Tinder @nickhasthoughts.com · 29/07/2026wow a real bluesky poster on Family Fued 0153
Reposted by Skyangles.comCasey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 11/07/2026On Bluesky I expect to receive bad replies, so I post less than I might otherwise. Not necessarily mean/offensive replies, just annoying slop. Would love to see the platform find a way to incentivize smart/funny/surprising conversations 161124
Reposted by Skyangles.comGennifer Hutchison @gennhutchison.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Love when an innocuous 300 char post that could not possibly contain the full breadth of subtlety and exploration even the most mundane aspects of life possess is accused of intentionally eschewing that exploration and endorsing every element, good or bad, housed within the subjects of that post. 1222
Reposted by Skyangles.comMolly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Bluesky knew the strait of Hormuz, Graham Platner, and AIPAC democrats were all cooked months before the experts did. Meanwhile Twitter was convinced Spencer Pratt would win and the Odyssey would bomb. Which site is the not-real-life echo chamber again? 8687791674
Skyangles.com @skyangles.com · 22/07/2026It's a decent bet you don't know the half of it...blog.skyangles.comWho are my biggest Bluesky followers? - Skyangles.comIt's a decent bet you've never seen a complete list of your Bluesky account's top followers. Skyangles makes the discovery process easy. 000
Skyangles.com @skyangles.com · 18/07/2026Give it a try!blog.skyangles.comWho are my biggest Bluesky followers? - Skyangles.comIt's a decent bet you've never seen a complete list of your Bluesky account's top followers. Skyangles makes the discovery process easy. 000
Reposted by Skyangles.comNathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 15/07/2026I glance back at Twitter periodically and a funny thing I've started noticing is people making fun of Bluesky for... being like old twitter. Even though those same people all agree that "old twitter" was massively better. Also the classic "I looked up the accounts I hate,turns out, still hate them!" 0392
Reposted by Skyangles.comRick CarBOOso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Bluesky is both the sports app and the Catholic schism app, everything you’d need in one place 422331315
Reposted by Skyangles.come.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 01/07/2026I don't understand why bsky needs to know my age when simply posting here proves that I'm 38 years old 262125433
Skyangles.com @skyangles.com · 30/06/2026If you posted on Bluesky today, you're in the elite.blog.skyangles.comMost Bluesky accounts post rarely - Skyangles.comAn analysis of 5598 Bluesky accounts found that 27% of Bluesky users posted in the last week, but 50% of users have not posted in the last month. 000
Reposted by Skyangles.comKate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 14/06/2026Our research team is ramping up for coming midterms. Looks like we'll be busy. If you're interested, here's an interactive graph (thanks to Stephen Prochaska) showing how X influencers re-ran the "rigged election" narrative during/following the CA primaries. faculty.washington.edu/kstarbi/Cumu... 8652275
Reposted by Skyangles.comVikram Bath @vikrambath.bsky.social · 06/06/2026The top 2026 X accounts gives insight into the lie that X is the town square. These people are niche celebrities and their influence on X does not represent influence elsewhere. Your participation is not going to change this graph www.natesilver.net/p/social-med... 32949751446
Reposted by Skyangles.comCharles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 03/06/2026blue26.org/26/06/01/blu... I cross post my Dem fundraising links to Bluesky, Twitter, Threads, Mastodon and Spoutible at the same time every time. 23% of what I've raised has come via Bluesky posts. 7.5% via Twitter/X posts. 1.9% via the other 3 combined. 1295
Reposted by Skyangles.comPaul @pawlbologna.bsky.social · 03/06/2026I've worked in Democratic digital comms for a long time and pay attention to campaign metrics across platforms. Increasingly I'm seeing Dems who crosspost on X, Bluesky, and Threads get better engagement on Bluesky even with far fewer followers. Here's @jamestalarico.bsky.social's clip last night: 1113345726
Reposted by Skyangles.comMike Potter @wthr-mike.bsky.social · 03/06/2026Press release says they used "social listening" to check how every state feels about the teams in the NBA finals. The fact they think Indiana prefers the Knicks over the Spurs tells me... that social listening failed. 121
Reposted by Skyangles.comMae Nick Phra Khanong @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 25/05/2026The way you know Bluesky is not a representative sample is several people are livetweeting their reading of an encyclical 221203194
Reposted by Skyangles.comDave Winer on Bluesky @scripting.com · 24/05/2026Elon Musk’s X has a full writers text editor. I just tested it, wrote a post telling Bluesky they should pay attention. In the post I use links, styling, the post has a title, edited it, and you can read it in X. x.com/davewiner/st...x.comDave Winer on X: "X has nuked the limits, time for Bluesky to follow suit" / XX has nuked the limits, time for Bluesky to follow suit 354
Reposted by Skyangles.comBen Werdmuller @werd.io · 24/05/2026Yeah, man. Bluesky sucks. You know what's better? All those other social media networks. Like, famously, man. They all rule. 3272
Reposted by Skyangles.comJeff (Hot Type) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 21/05/2026So who says Bluesky isn't important? Bluesky Says Kremlin Is Hacking Its Platform to Spread Propaganda www.nytimes.com/2026/05/21/b...nytimes.comBluesky Says Kremlin Is Hacking Its Platform to Spread Propaganda 88735
Reposted by Skyangles.comFaiz Siddiqui @faizsays.bsky.social · 13/05/2026A little-noticed X account in India was struggling to reach 100 followers when it announced: "Sit tight and have a view while I am working my way up the ladder." Two years later, it's the account Elon Musk interacts with the most. It lavishes praise on Musk and spreads his ideas. wapo.st/4nqjRYk 13116
Reposted by Skyangles.comJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 12/05/2026Not sure it's the fault of Bluesky or anyone on it that some people/institutions chose to stay on the fascist hellsite long after they should have, sensibly, left it. Likewise I don't particularly care if the rest of the world acknowledges this place exists, I'm here for the hangout with my pals. 753107260
Reposted by Skyangles.comdarth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 13/05/2026i was hibernating when jamelle posted this great thread but agree with it completely tbh 231767152
Reposted by Skyangles.comDr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 13/05/2026If you think Bluesky sucks, you are not using it correctly. I have curated my feed to be full of DeliciousWeirdos™️ and KingShitposters™️ which means endless nerdiness (complimentary), bangers, and really insightful threads. Sorry you aren't having fun you aren't playing right. Try harder! 1014308574
Reposted by Skyangles.comSimon Owens @simonowens.bsky.social · 11/05/2026It’s pretty notable that some of the most successful independent news creators today were originally cast off from their legacy media motherships — people like Mehdi Hasan, Joy Reid, Chris Cillizza, Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, Jim Acosta, and Don Lemon.thewrap.comDon Lemon Expands Independent Media Company's Newsroom and Operations TeamsDon Lemon announced Sunday that his independent media company Lemon Media Network (LMN) is expanding its newsroom and operations teams. According to a release from LMN, the network has amassed more th... 041
Reposted by Skyangles.comBen Werdmuller @werd.io · 11/05/2026WordPress is the most popular publishing platform in the world. It wants you to publish and be heard - and that means supporting conversation. werd.io/wordpress-po...werd.ioWordPress powers 47% of the web. Now it's more social, tooWordPress is the most popular publishing platform in the world. It wants you to publish and be heard - and that means supporting conversation. 181
Reposted by Skyangles.comJeff (Hot Type) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 11/05/2026The latest from @hankify.bsky.social is wonderful. I found prominent folks who were following me but I didn't know it and now I'm following them. Connections made. skyangles.comskyangles.comSkyangles - Bluesky Network AnalyzerDiscover Bluesky's local networks. 175
Reposted by Skyangles.comMaria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 08/05/2026It's happening. 419534
Skyangles.com @skyangles.com · 07/05/2026New Skyangles feature: word cloud based on search result bios: skyangles.com/s/3vsa6g2mskyangles.comWhat are the biggest Bluesky accounts following @nytpitchbot?Fans include @georgetakei, @maddow, @atrupar, @gtconway, @mollyjongfast — Skyangles 010