I have essentially moved all of my social media activity to Bluesky. This has had some downstream effects.
Gifs
For example you cannot upload your own animated gifs. So this cool animated gif:
Gets dumbed down to a static image
To work around this I have been exporting slides as short movies and uploading them to my YouTube channel and then embedding them into a Bluesky post like this
and this:
I like this better because audio!
Bookmarks
Bluesky does not have bookmarks. The best work around is to reply to a post with an emoji of your choice. Many people use 📌. Then when you want to look at your book marks, just go to the search panel and enter “from:me 📌” Consider bookmarking the results so you can get back there quickly.
There is no reason you need to use the push pins, and you can use multiple emoji to get organize you bookmarks. If you want to look at other people’s bookmarks replace “me” with their username. Here are Swap’s pins: from:hswapnil.bsky.social 📌
Search
This page with search tips for Bluesky is useful.
Import
I imported my posts from Twitter into Bluesky using BluueArk.app. It worked great. A lot of my posts did not dome, but a lot did and it makes my Bluesky profile feel more fleshed out.
The imported tweets came in to bluesky recently but they are still ordered chronologically with a date created tag. So this post from 2018 was imported just a few weeks ago.
So this has resulted in a few of people replying to years old tweets which is simultaneously confusing and delightful.
What tips do you have for using Bluesky?
