On December 11, 2025, I received a verification mark from Bluesky as a researcher. I'm grateful for this recognition. But the mark isn't why I started calli…
Who Owns Bluesky? - Nightflight
Rethinking Bluesky's "Decentralization": An Assessment as of January 2026 - Nightflight
January 19, 2026
What Is Bluesky?—A Landscape Revealed by the Diffusion Experiment - Nightflight
Explore the ATmosphere — internect.info
Find technical information about a Bluesky account from its handle or DID.
Paper Skygest: Personalized Academic Recommendations on Bluesky
We build, deploy, and evaluate Paper Skygest, a custom personalized social feed for scientific content posted by a user's network on Bluesky and the AT Protocol. We leverage a new capability on...
2025 Transparency Report Overview - Bluesky
In 2025, as Bluesky grew from 25 million to 41 million users, we improved the trust and safety infrastructure to better enable our mission. Here's what that looks like in plain language.
Studying the "Air" of Bluesky: Proposing a New Research Field Called Network Perception in ATmosphere - Nightflight
Bluesky is doubling down
I’m currently in Vancouver for ATmosphereConf 2026, surrounded by people who care deeply about things like data portability and unparalleled seismic activity on the Alaskan coast. If that sounds weird, don’t worry. All you really need to know is that this conference is nerdy, it’s niche, and
Mezzanine: An Information Network Built on Bluesky's Cashtags - Nightflight
Am I Shadowbanned on Bluesky?
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SkySpace: A Place For Friends (Who Miss 2005)
Check out your profile on SkySpace, a nostalgic way to explore Bluesky. Who will you put in your Top 8?
Bluesky SSH Authentication #2
Addressing the glaring omissions from yesterday’s proof of concept, such as the fact that you could sign in as any user, you couldn’t revoke access, all hosts had the same users, and there was no mapping between Bluesky handles and POSIX users, I have updated mtelvers/bluesky-ssh-key-extractor and newly published mtelvers/bluesky-collection.
Impressions from my first week at Bluesky
It’s deeply fun and energizing to be back in an operating role. The team has been very welcoming and impressive. I spent my first week meeting lots of people and soaking up information, both …
Shouting at Stars: A History of Interstellar Messages
Möwe #7 — The First Room Was a Discord - Möwe
August 24 – September 1, 2026 Observation The point of Bluesky is that anything you write can be read by anyone. Two tools for giving that up arrived on t…