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head of product @bsky.app

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kinda love this

06.03.2026 18:19 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

shoutout to @ds.bsky.team for adding inline translation to the app.

Bluesky is international. people who speak any language should feel welcome here, and easy translation helps make that happen.

05.03.2026 21:37 πŸ‘ 85 πŸ” 16 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 1

shoutout to @thepope.dev for this update β€”Β we've been wanting to simplify this for a long time

custom feeds are part of what make Bluesky unique. lots more we can improve here, and we will!

05.03.2026 21:32 πŸ‘ 92 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 4

OTA update rolling out now, we should be all good shortly!

05.03.2026 20:20 πŸ‘ 34 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1

today's app update introduced a bug that is causing some posts to not show up. we're working on a fix now.

05.03.2026 19:35 πŸ‘ 132 πŸ” 38 πŸ’¬ 17 πŸ“Œ 17

heads up devs:

04.03.2026 18:33 πŸ‘ 25 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

linger time is gonna skyrocket

03.03.2026 03:17 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

yep, would be great to share more as we ramp up

@iwsmith.bsky.social wrote a great post last week on some of the ML team's work

bsky.app/profile/iwsm...

02.03.2026 22:39 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

we hired the mayor

welcome @joshuajfriedman.com!

02.03.2026 22:36 πŸ‘ 82 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

it's being rebuilt piece by piece, not all at once.

our second ML eng joined last week and we're working on more, so i'm hopeful improvement will ramp up.

02.03.2026 22:33 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

For You is already featured and better feed discovery is already planned, but there are plenty of other discovery surfaces that are not in a good state and need to be fixed, which we're doing.

lots of hiring and investment also going into Discover itself. moving as fast as we can.

02.03.2026 19:19 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

awesome!

02.03.2026 15:46 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Summer and Butterfly, 1989 β€”Β Yayoi Kusama

Summer and Butterfly, 1989 β€”Β Yayoi Kusama

Butterfly, 1982 β€”Β Yayoi Kusama

Butterfly, 1982 β€”Β Yayoi Kusama

A Butterfly, 2009 β€”Β Yayoi Kusama

A Butterfly, 2009 β€”Β Yayoi Kusama

Butterflies, 2003 β€”Β Yayoi Kusama

Butterflies, 2003 β€”Β Yayoi Kusama

can we give Yayoi a board seat

01.03.2026 18:09 πŸ‘ 28 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

always appreciate your feedback, and yes we def want to improve video quality

26.02.2026 19:45 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Permissioned Data Diary 2: Buckets The second in a series of posts building up a solution to permissioned data on atproto. We introduce buckets: a new protocol primitive for creating a shared social context.

new blog post on permissioned data in atproto! this one introduces "buckets", the protocol-level primitive for shared access control. I walk through two approaches that don't quite work and land on something that I think does

let me know your thoughts!

26.02.2026 18:12 πŸ‘ 285 πŸ” 58 πŸ’¬ 19 πŸ“Œ 22

yep, actively working on this. it’s taking a bit longer because we are replacing the entire system behind it, not just applying band-aids. more soon. cc @iwsmith.bsky.social

26.02.2026 16:14 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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Practical Decentralization The point of decentralization is to guarantee the rights of individuals and communities on the Internet. Pulling that off is a balancing act between practicality and ideology.

New blogpost about atproto

It's not federation, it's not a p2p mesh. It's a secret third thing: practical.

www.pfrazee.com/blog/practic...

25.02.2026 17:13 πŸ‘ 566 πŸ” 139 πŸ’¬ 32 πŸ“Œ 33

see how @iwsmith.bsky.social's improving the Discover feed

23.02.2026 23:20 πŸ‘ 40 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

thanks to @ihatemornings.com for the early work on this integration with Bandcamp

23.02.2026 20:17 πŸ‘ 48 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
DAPHNI - Waiting So Long (feat. CARIBOU)
DAPHNI - Waiting So Long (feat. CARIBOU) YouTube video by Caribou

live feed of bsky team today:

23.02.2026 20:09 πŸ‘ 56 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

lmk what other features you'd like to see here :)

21.02.2026 17:36 πŸ‘ 150 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 26 πŸ“Œ 0

def. working on this

20.02.2026 23:25 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

working on this

20.02.2026 19:38 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

search is getting an upgrade soon.

if you could fix or change something thing about it, what would it be?

20.02.2026 00:43 πŸ‘ 184 πŸ” 51 πŸ’¬ 145 πŸ“Œ 12

def interested in extending this to more apps, Germ is the pilot β€”Β though we haven't landed on timing for that yet

20.02.2026 00:25 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

they had an outage β€”Β should be back up now

18.02.2026 03:32 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

should have at least 4 hours overlap in the workday with PST, so CET is not ideal

17.02.2026 17:31 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

form is up! have another look

17.02.2026 17:29 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Bluesky Jobs Bluesky Jobs

we're hiring a senior product designer at Bluesky.

you'd be designer #2. no design-by-committee, no six-month review cycles. just ship great stuff to millions of people.

come level up this app with us! apply here: jobs.gem.com/bluesky/am9i...

17.02.2026 16:59 πŸ‘ 352 πŸ” 117 πŸ’¬ 36 πŸ“Œ 19

woah

16.02.2026 04:45 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0