Welcome, new Bluesky users! Please check out the thread below for tips on setting up your account, making your feed more interesting, finding old Twitter friends, search, privacy, stats, and more (and please ask questions if you have them)

October 26, 2024 - 18:35 UTC

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Thank you Joshua! Just followed you after reading your post of the injunction regarding the treasury department. Thanks for keeping us informed I’m sure the majority of us are worried about our private information being taken by the coup perpetrator Musk!!
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Thanks for all the info! My curiosity and skill levels don’t always match up, so it’s nice to have a guide:)
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Please create an AI filter so that any user name with Elon in it gets reviewed . The fake Elon accounts on threads is untenable.
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A question! I unequivocally enjoy this platform. The one thing that worries me is what the story is with Donk and Brittney and why they were blocked? Personally I sensed that they were spam, but their followers adore them and want them back, and there is no explanation. Will there ever be one?
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Absolutely love this essential thread! Thank you!
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Is there a way, as a user, to add someone's starter pack to a list I've created, but not add them to my follows? Since creating a new account I've decided to go with lists more than follows and I'd like to add complete starter packs to my lists, but not necessarily follow. Is this possible?
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Yes! Third-party tool here:
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Thsnk you!
I especially want to try and find old T friends!
I’m only a small acct there but over 8 yrs carefully culled the chaff from the grain and don’t want to lose some.
BUT definitely do NOT want to continue to support elmo
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Thank you!
I DO feel welcome ☺️
What a lovely change , not stumbling across so much toxicity despite “blocking” or “muting”
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Hey @ericadeleye.bsky.social check this out and def follow Joshua.

And others, please welcome Erik, an incredible photographer and artist.
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I saw Eric but it posted Erik???
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I 💙 Butterflies!
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Thanks Friedman, said Friedman.
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Whoa no ads haha nice!!
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I see a lot of my contacts with invalid handle. Maybe put out a note on how to correct that?
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Hi! Is there a way to link 2 accounts so you can easily toggle between them? I set up this acct, but would like to link it to my main account so I can go back-and-forth without logging in and out all the time. Is there a better way to set them up?
Thanks.

@carolebell.bsky.social
@jaz.bsky.social
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Thanks!
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I’m relatively new here. Is there a way to hold your place in the timeline? Every time I click away it defaults to the top. Thanks for all the helpful tips!
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I hope that you will also follow back many of your followers. It’s how we all make this work.
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I don't know who you are...but I am following you. Because. Bluesky.
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Love this! & so uplifting seeing your posts about meeting others irl!
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Everybody is, and one day at Blue Sky, will be discovering my songs with Steve Moran!
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New here! Tyvm😃
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I noticed an uptick in this type of text since…

www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/chinese-hack-us-telecoms-compromised-more-firms-than-previously-known-wsj-says-2025-01-05/

Seeing as the Pentagon has been told not to fight Russian Cyber Attacks i expect much more of this shit,
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Thank you so much! I was ready to leave social forever. An I'm an old one... this platform gives me hope. May it maintain it's integrity.
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How do you post on the feeds though I see the cat ones but how do I post cats on them?
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bsky.app/profile/joshuajfriedman.com/post/3l7nqtvt3ku2r
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Thank you for this wonderfully positive welcome!

It feels so fresh.
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So you are the guru? When a starter pack comes up, when I try to repost, the pack doesn't forward. Do you know why? Also, some of my posts don't post. Why is that if I am following the person? Thank you!
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Hi! Is it quote-posting a starter pack that isn't working? For some reason you can make your own post with the starter pack preview or repost someone else's, but you can't see the preview image when you quote-post.

Can you explain what you mean by "my posts don't post"?
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Not a new user, but these tips are really helpful. Is there a way I could not see anime type art? I've been muting the users. Bless their hearts, I'm sure they are very talented, but I just scroll past and would rather not have to. Thanks!
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I'm not sure... but you could try putting that word in search and finding the most prominent posters of that kind of art, and blocking them.
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Same here. Too much of that. There must be more art styles!
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This is an incredibly helpful guide, thank you for putting this together! It really demystifies the onboarding process.
For someone who has the basics down, what's one advanced or underrated feature of Bluesky you think more people should be using to enhance their experience?
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@andrewrsorkin.bsky.social
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YOU NEED MORE FINANCE & BUSINESS PROFESSIONALS!
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I’d like to move my groups here from the other site #2.

I can’t find this feature.

I have created a custom feed but it doesn’t quite scratch the itch.

Does this exist and I haven’t found it, or is it in the works?
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Hi! What do you mean when you say "groups"? What feature are you looking for? Bluesky doesn't yet have the ability to create small private groups where you can communicate without other users seeing that content, if that's what you mean—but it's on the developers' to-do list!
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I was given an invitation here from a very generous person. I would like to do the same. How do I get that?
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Four women and a guy who found his #balls
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Thank you so much for the tips! Really appreciate you looking out for us newbies
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My pleasure, and welcome! Please ask if you have any questions
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💕💕💕💕💕🍀🌟🌟🌟🌟💫💫👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🔔🔔🔔❣️ 🦋 🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋
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Please watch and cover! We need to have a national conversation and a campaign started about this.

youtu.be/AWSWqn7UHYM
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Thank you for the notes...I will look into it.

I also just signed into Bluesky for Arts History. I am sharing this with colleagues in the US and overseas in Europe. They are artists and galleries. Ideal. (I am a collector so I do know who to share this with. Thanks.)
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Thanks for this post and the quoted post. Opening up an account here to see what the newsletters scene is all about in here. As one might guess in X it's pretty dead.
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Welcome! Here are a couple feeds of people's posts about their newsletters, FWIW
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I've been here a while, n still found this useful, i'd missed the pin feed, thanks!
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Heyy youlld love to visit the Antarctic ice ?
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It feels more like facebook just no ads, and u don't have to be friends with someone to see their stuff without looking them up
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Is there a settings menu?
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Found it. Sigh. I didn’t look very hard. Ha
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Hi Joshua, Would you mind adding us to the Art History Starter Pack? We are independent researchers producing films about Italian Renaissance art and more - thanks! Info here: ideasroadshow.com/
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Hi! That starter pack really belongs to some art historians—I just helped them build it. But I'll pass along your note to them!
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Thank you, Joshua!
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Hi Joshua;
I'm having issues with the bluesky app for Android. I've submitted a bug report and am wondering if it's a known issue that has a fix: when I bring to the app on my phone & attempting to sign in, my virtual keyboard disappears.

Please advise if you're able.
Thanks!
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Same thing is happening to me! Not a great situation considering the current mass-exodus from the former bird site.
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Oh, I'm sorry to hear that's happening! @hailey.at, do you happen to know if there's a fix coming for this?
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Didn't Trump boast he NEVER uses a teleprompter? Like constantly during campaign? Well, he clearly did tonight...he used a very complicated word like "spectacular" and "obliterated" ..Trump does know, or use, those words. On final note, he called Israel's PM "Bibi" Netanyahu....who the hell is that?
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Should a third-party monitor have been required due to the pace of firing and the level of access provisioned without regard for sensitivity? How about ensuring adequate retention of log files for over seven years? Why do lawyers think they know both IT and Cyber Security?
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bless you Joshua 🫶
I’m gonna need help 😅
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Hi new people!! Welcome! If anyone wants a good political Starter Pack, I put this somewhat journalist-focused one together for my client, @waytowinus.bsky.social.

go.bsky.app/RXHJ7oo
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A lot of us will only read the tips when we are stuck and feel like we broke the internet.
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Hi there!

Is there a way to transform a list into a feed? And the opposite, transform a feed into a list?

Thank you in advance
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Hi! Will you say a little more about why you'd like to convert a list into a feed and vice versa? There are third-party tools to convert a starter pack into a list and vice versa. But lists and feeds, if you're happy with their outputs in their original forms, are already practically identical.
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And don't be a dick.
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The question I have is will you still make me feel like everything is ok even when it’s not ok?
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Megan!! All I can promise is that I will repost soothing photos of people’s pets and archival ephemera to ease the pain (I’m so happy to see you here!)
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Josh — can you point me to how to make lists or feeds of followers ? For example, I follow some folks who post sparingly and I miss posts in the sea of heavy-posters. I can do that, correct? And it will show in the way pre-made feeds do? Just starting to get the hang of things enough to try. Thanks!
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My favorite sort of question! Absolutely, you can do this, and I rely on such lists/feeds for the same reason. Actually, there's already a great feed called Quiet Posters that shows you posts from people you follow who don't post often. /1
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Pleeeese can anyone tell me the proper pronunciation of Bluesky? Is it like it looks, or does it rhyme with brewski?
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It's pronounced "blue sky"
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Thank you!
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It's nice to meet a fellow Bluesky user like you.
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Like the school teacher in Idaho, Bluesky says EVERYONE IS WELCOME.
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Thank you! I’m new on here and this was very useful.
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Judge Nelson repeatedly references alleged presidential findings and determinations that there's no evidence in the record Trump ever made.
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But the facts that the district court judge (who is physically in Portland, less than 2 miles from the ICE facility) were clearly erroneous despite the record support!
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A Nation is Not a Business
Who ever said running a country like a business was a good idea?
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Thank you. Just arrived and am excited to be here..
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I’m suspicious of followers with no bio and no posts.. bots to me so I’m blocking.. what say you ??
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Any suggestions on helping me deactivate my Twitter.. keep getting this 3 days now
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Do you happen to have a computer that you could try to deactivate from? My understanding is that that sometimes works when it isn't working in the mobile app.
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New user here. Question: Is there a way to quickly toggle between two accounts? Over on Twitter I had two separate accounts—one for political content and one for sports. Twitter let me go between them quickly. I don’t want to bore my NBA followers with politics and vice versa.
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Yes! If you make additional accounts, you can switch between them quickly at the top of the Settings screen
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You didn't mention that you are the mayor of bluesky
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Is there an issue with the "Following" feed? I see posts from people I don't follow and I miss posts from people I follow.
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I've heard occasional reports of a bug that causes the "Following," "Discover," etc. tabs at the top of the screen to become effectively disconnected from the feeds below them, so there's a chance you're looking at Discover without realizing it. I'd close and reopen the app to see if that helps.
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Responses count are unintuitive. The count of top most message should reflect the sum of all messages in all sublevels. I often have to go to skythread to be able to follow a thread. It shouln't be like this.
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I was trying to verify my email account and noticed it was wrong (.con instead of .com). How do I change that?
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Hi,
Recently joined Blue Sky, new user READING posts. Slowly gaining courage to post. Today, for first time, tried to post in response to White House treatment of Zelensky. Tried to post Ukraine flag, hit repost, then new post buttons, did it wrong, now am labeled as Spam. Please help me! I goofed
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For those joining recently, and those creeping in from earlier. Many folks MADE this platform, you better fucking be good or you'll have a VERY bad time here.

*To add, sex workers also made this platform and puritanical fuckery WILL get you fucking flogged to pieces.

bsky.app/profile/thedaybooks.bsky.social/post/3lg4bql5x5s2j
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On alt-text: Go into settings and FORCE IT in settings, but bear in mind that it doesn't happen with gifs.
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When you see questionable accounts.......immediately just block them ! Just do it! Take em out NOW!! FUCK ELON!!🖤🙏🏼
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@bagoflazers.bsky.social very helpful over here
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Thank you!🙏
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Was there another sizable eXit or are you merely (admirably!) fulfilling your mayorial duties?
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No new major event! Just trying to repost it periodically for new followers
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Sup, Josh!
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@siemsek.bsky.social here are some helpful tips to start with
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Hello Joshua. Bluesky user, new of this parish. How are ya?
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Still on my to-do list.
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Attn @effinizzy.bsky.social
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Sorry, meant to put some little up arrows there. Up two from here for info you might be looking for
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Thanks, passing that on to a new friend.
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How do I post a picture to the timelime cleanse feed?
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You just use the words "timeline cleanse" in the post or in the alt text!
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Any idea why my handle is showing as invalid today? I see some others are having the same problem.
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Wow, it’s amazing, you’re some kind of Bluesky grandee! I knew you when… :)
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lol, so nice to see you, Sasha! I think of myself as more of a docent
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