In 2026, @bsky.app is focused on what’s next for open social: bringing together users for conversations around live events, creator and platform monetization, and private state, giving users truly private data while preserving ownership and portability at the protocol level.

the bsky design team is working on communities and looking for feedback. one core idea we have is builders should be able to create apps and websites for their communities. they shouldn't only show up on bsky. community builders: would you want to create a separate custom app/site?

Bluesky is the only mainstream social media platform on the planet where an independent individual can permissionlessly create their own custom algorithmic feed, host it on their own equipment, and have it be responsible for 4% of the entire network’s post views

ohh I love this direction of activity-specific views! There could also be a "research" view for activity from @margin.at @semble.so etc - would be cool to think how to get the research related bsky activity, maybe from Lea @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social @mariaa.bsky.social

I think one of the most valuable things that bsky can do for the atmosphere is leverage its position as the only app with a large audience and heavily promote "high quality" ATProto apps in-app. The live indicator and profile buttons are cool, but it's really limited and discovery is spontaneous.

Bluesky is a dominating presence in microblogging on ATproto, I just posted from both Mu and Blacksky and they’re both still using app.bsky.feed.post records. But what if there was a community driven standard for microblogging the same way we have one for long-form posting with @standard.site?

Hello world! We are building *personalized* feeds to help you make sense of research discussions on BlueSky! Pin our first feed below, which shows posts about papers from accounts you follow! Follow this account for more updates! bsky.app/profile/paper-feed.bsky.socia…