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:
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.
To get into the moderators' field of vision, your Bluesky post (for example, Hive link share) must have relevant terms. By terms, they mean:
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:
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
There are two possible strategies for sharing Hive links on Bluesky:
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"
The drawing was generated with PeakD AI: https://peakd.com/ai
