HivePosh started working with Bluesky recently, so the attention of many Hivers, including myself, is riveted to this social network. I've spent some time researching it and here's what I've discovered.
My first impression was that Bluesky was a copy of old Twitter which made my initial experience smooth. However, as it has turned out, it also has an original feature at its core: feeds.
There are two default feeds on Bluesky:
When a new user publishes a post, he/she gets views and likes from these two feeds. But there are many more of them. For example:
How about this:
What is more important:
Feeds Often Play the Role of Subreddits or Publications
For example, these are the Bluesky's top 3 cat feeds (from goodfeeds.co):
Other popular feeds:
These are screenshots from goodfeeds.co, a Bluesky feed searcher.
Anybody can create a feed, for example, on blueskyfeedcreator.com.
The degree of moderation of feeds varies greatly.
How to get included? Feed settings let you create a closed club for chosen authors or an automatically generated feed based on a specific hashtag. You should try one to know for sure.
How to Optimize Bluesky Posts
To get into the moderators' field of vision, your Bluesky post (for example, Hive link share) must have relevant terms. By terms, they mean:
- a hashtag #
- an emoji or series or emojis
- regular words or phrases (and that means that the longer your Bluesky post is, the better chance to be spotted by mods of feeds).
From feed moderation dashboard on blueskyfeedcreator.com with my examples of terms
Every feed chooses its own terms. For example:
Yes, emojis work as hashtags on Bluesky:
Each feed also chooses what areas to scan for terms:
- Post text
- Alt text (an image description)
- Embedded link
If your post has a hashtag, emoji, or words chosen by a feed as terms, it will often only send your post to that feed's approval queue. Therefore, posting good content and keeping your account neat is crucial for getting accepted by the best feeds.
Feeds can whitelist and blacklist users. So users with spammy-looking accounts have chances to never get access to some feeds.
I guess that, when you have a decent thematic account, you can contact relevant feeds to ask them to consider adding you to their list of allowed users:
From feed moderation dashboard on blueskyfeedcreator.com
The rest settings are:
From feed moderation dashboard on blueskyfeedcreator.com
Sharing Hive Links on Bluesky
There are two possible strategies for sharing Hive links on Bluesky:
- Link dropping. A quick link sharing with minimal effort, resulting in relatively limited attention from Discover and Following feeds. If you don't have time and interest in anything serious on Bluesky, that's your way.
- Genuine account building on Bluesky. That will open access to feeds and hearts of a broader audience on Bluesky. Rare sharing links to the best Hive content will be more fruitful in that case. That's your way if you want to establish a strong account on a growing social media.
An Idea of How to Onboard from BlueSky to Hive
- Create a feed on Bluesky
- Ask Hivers to support it with likes for better ranking on goodfeeds.co and other feed searchers.
- Run regular contests with prizes in HBD / $HIVE to make the feed more popular on Bluesky and make Bluesky users sign up for Hive front-ends
The more likes a feed has, the better it is ranked on feed searchers like goodfeeds.co. "Like" means you bookmark the feed (it'll be available on More Feed) and "Pin Feed" means you'll have access to the feed from your account's Home page"
I hope this has been a helpful read. Please share your thoughts on Bluesky and how your user experience was there!
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You're always sharing us a good guide @x-rain 💜 I create my account yesterday but with this guide I have it more easy 😆
Btw, it was more easy for me to share a link there 🤣 so it's a very good start. But I still warming my reddit account to do that 👏🏽
Greetings and have a nice weekend 🥳
Glad you've found the post useful!
Terms and feeds are super intriguing, I'll be testing them to see whether it is possible to get a good boost with their help.
Glad to hear this!
Have a lovely weekend too! 🌞
Thanks for sharing.
Had registered there long time ago, but did not use it realy.
And you don't have to. HivePosh will work with many social media in one or another way so Bluesky is just another small step. I personally like Bluesky because it's not too overcrowded - it's easier to get attention and stand out there without paying money. If Bluesky becomes a real Twitter #2, even better for those who joined early.
Good stuff, will dive into that over the weekend
Thank you! You can find accounts of Hivers in the comments section here https://peakd.com/hive-197333/@acidyo/posh-x-bluesky People follow back
cheers mate
Beautiful guild Bluesky is very strict when it comes to posting how do one know what or how to post without offending the system and tagging it as spam.
I can only say: share only those posts that are truly worth sharing. And don't share links too often. Engage.
Hmmm ohhk noted with thanks
Excellent guide, blusky seems kinda complicated if you want to use it deeply than just drop a link
Sure, it takes a lot of time and effort when you are serious about a social media. So each of us can focus on 1-2-3, not more. Happily, all accounts, with link dropping only or even empty, are going to be helpful when HivePosh starts doing boost-other-Hiver things (that's planned).
Instagram could be good, lot of people there
For me it's a bit difficult, but for others I think it will be very useful. 👍
Thank you for promoting and attracting new users! 🙏
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Hope so.
Thank you for the comment!
This is elementary information. The feed is too intriguing. Somewhat complex, but not complicated.
I didn't know about the communities part. I liked it because it is an orientation on how to use the account. The recommendations are good.
Thank you! Yes, not complicated.
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STOPThis is a great overview of Bluesky and how it works,especially for those of us who are new to the platform.I found the information about feeds to be particularly helpful,as it's a key feature that sets Bluesky apart.I also appreciate the tips on how to optimize posts for better visibility and the ideas for onboarding Bluesky users to Hive.This is a valuable contribution to the HivePosh community,and I'm looking forward to seeing how you continue to explore the potential of Bluesky.Thanks for sharing your insights!
Thank you for this feedback!
My pleasure @x-rain
So I guess all of us are doing things wrong on Bluesky at the moment. Cause most of us just poped in on BlueSky ans started posting Hive links when we should choose a nieche we like and focus on it by just writing long posts with same category hashtags.
Maybe. I am not sure what is better. Maybe, a decent versatile account is enough.
I guess this approach won't be too fruitful but many people have no time for Bluesky so... dropping links can be the way for them. As for me, I'll try to build a strongish account there.
I guess we will be focusing on technology/blockchain and some Fun and posting our Podcast related content. I see that Crypto/Blockchain is not yet a big thing on BlueSky so maybe we are all just in time.
I see that Art is quite popular and maybe something for @eve66 / @nftshowroom
Also, I see Feeds like Communities on Hive :P