Bluesky is now tracked, with growth curves from day one

Bluesky is the ninth network we track, and the first one in a while that needed no browser extension at all. Its public API answers our servers directly, so discovery runs unattended on a schedule, the same way RSS does. Reddit blocks datacenter traffic and has to be captured from a logged-in browser. Bluesky does not.

What that means in practice is that you do not have to do anything. Posts show up on their own.

What you get

• A Bluesky page in the sidebar with the same grid, filters and sorting as every other network.
• Bluesky posts merged into the Trending Radar next to the other eight networks.
• A Bluesky box on the dashboard, under "trending by network".
• source=bluesky in the public API, so your agents can pull it like any other network.

Growth curves, not just a snapshot

Every post gets re-measured on a schedule, and each measurement is recorded. The little chart on the card is that post's real history. Hover any point and it tells you the value, how much it gained since the previous measurement, and when it was taken.

You can also sort by Fastest growing, which ranks by measured gain instead of raw size. A post that arrived at 30,000 likes and never moved ranks below one that went from 200 to 9,000.

Hashtags and categories

Bluesky posts carry their hashtags. We read them from the modern rich-text format and from plain #word in the text, because older clients only ever wrote the second kind and reading just one of them loses half of them without saying so. Tags are clickable on every card and they feed a hashtag filter.

Categories reuse the ones you already curate for Reddit instead of starting a parallel list. Add the relevant hashtags to a category and Bluesky posts file themselves under it, in the app and in the Radar's category filter.

How posts are found

Bluesky's "What's Hot" only shows what is peaking right now, which misses two whole categories of viral content: posts that built slowly, and proven accounts whose newest post has not caught fire yet. So discovery runs in three layers.

• A catalogue of feeds, built from Bluesky's own directory of custom feeds. There are hundreds, not the fifty a single request returns, and we rotate through them so a day of runs covers the long tail instead of re-reading the same handful.
• Accounts that have already gone viral once get read directly, so their next post is caught before any feed ranks it.
• Curated feeds like SkyFeed's Catch Up, which ranks a whole day instead of the last few minutes and surfaces exactly the slow-burn posts the hot feed drops.

Images are kept

Thumbnails are copied to our own storage instead of hot-linking Bluesky's CDN. When a post gets deleted or the CDN expires its copy, the card in your board still has its picture.

We also published a directory of Bluesky feeds out of the same data, if you want to browse which custom feeds are worth following.