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The Bluesky Social application for Web, iOS, and Android

28 mentions on Hacker News by 24 people: 5 stories, 23 comments · first 2023-05-15 · latest 2026-08-26

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  1. …need a phone number to verify. That requirement might have been replaced by a captcha according to: https://github.com/bluesky-social/social-app/issues/2762 But I didn't try to create an account recently, maybe they went back to requiring…
  2. It's pretty easy to find the PR considering the entire app is OSS https://github.com/bluesky-social/social-app/pull/9637
  3. …passed here[2]. [0]: https://bsky.app/profile/spacecowboy17.bsky.social/post/3lxx... [1]: https://github.com/bluesky-social/social-app/pull/8672 [2]: https://endpoints.bsky.app/#bluesky-app/tag/appbskyfeed/POST...
  4. …on CJK Windows. This PR to Bluesky has more recent discussion about it and offers workarounds: https://github.com/bluesky-social/social-app/pull/6139
  5. …of older projects haven't moved over yet. 2FA exists but only for emails right now, more to come. https://github.com/bluesky-social/social-app/issues/1071
    comment by steveklabnik · 2025-04-22 · in A new form of verification on Bluesky
  6. …url turns into https://bsky.app/profile/steveklabniklol.com/post/3lndppxy7x... See here for more: https://github.com/bluesky-social/social-app/issues/1221 > People are paying attention to the Display Handle and not the address one I agree,…
    comment by steveklabnik · 2025-04-21 · in A new form of verification on Bluesky
  7. The App View frontend is open source: https://github.com/bluesky-social/social-app Much of the backend is open source as well: https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto/tree/main/packages What is not are the extra services they run to…
  8. …means that the thread of conversation gets broken for everyone else who may read it. See e.g. https://github.com/bluesky-social/social-app/issues/7021 > As it stands, if 20 people are involved in a discussion, and ONE single person decides…
  9. > There's a ton of friction to interact with X without an account. That's the case on Bluesky too: https://github.com/bluesky-social/social-app/blob/355c50fc0f... https://github.com/bluesky-social/social-app/blob/355c50fc0f...
  10. …affects the posts of others too, and applies to every other user whether they like it or not. See https://github.com/bluesky-social/social-app/issues/7021 for more detail. A relevant comment from that issue: > As it stands, if 20 people…
  11. …RSS on all profiles, but less excited to see that there's nothing in the content and title fields: https://github.com/bluesky-social/social-app/issues/3384 https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:3nfshkzomgboapasu6amkhui/rs... Obviously I can see…
  12. …(cc dang) Open issue regarding making bsky URLs less fragile while also not looking ugly: https://github.com/bluesky-social/social-app/issues/1221
    comment by Retr0id · 2024-12-09 · in Itch.io Taken Down by Funko
  13. …Content warnings: currently only for posts with media; hopefully this gets addressed at some point: https://github.com/bluesky-social/social-app/issues/5341
  14. …a first for an open source app? (please note that this is all apps, not just social media) [0] https://github.com/bluesky-social/social-app [1] https://imgur.com/gallery/gHuwrrw
  15. https://github.com/bluesky-social/social-app
    comment by stuckinaloop · 2024-10-25 · in New Architecture is here
  16. …at Bluesky's client. The app performs decent on all supporting platforms and has single codebase. https://github.com/bluesky-social/social-app
    comment by SoKamil · 2024-05-18 · in Gio UI – Cross-platform GUI for Go
  17. …https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto Complete React Native Android/iOS/Web app: https://github.com/bluesky-social/social-app Go libraries: https://github.com/bluesky-social/indigo PDS distribution:…
  18. …by tying accounts to some messaging protocol or services. Apparently, DMs are low priority: https://github.com/bluesky-social/social-app/issues/1114
    comment by notthemessiah · 2024-02-23 · in Bluesky announces data federation for self hosters
  19. Feature requests opened since 2023-07-24: GIF support: https://github.com/bluesky-social/social-app/issues/1047 Audio/video support: https://github.com/bluesky-social/social-app/issues/1052
  20. …other and share development techniques all the time. Also, the official app has a Github repo ( https://github.com/bluesky-social/social-app ) that accepts issues and PRs. I opened an issue recently as some icons were wrong in a particular…
  21. yeah please do https://github.com/bluesky-social/social-app/
    comment by pfraze · 2024-01-16 · in Bluesky has launched RSS feeds
  22. …here: 1. AT Protocol (atproto) is documented here: https://atproto.com 2. App Web/Android/iOS app: https://github.com/bluesky-social/social-app 3. API (AppView) and PDS (Personal Data Server): https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto 4.…
  23. https://github.com/bluesky-social/social-app https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto