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Starter Guide

How to rebuild your network on Bsky?

Use the Sky Follower Bridge (browser extension) to find your Twitter follows here. https://github.com/kawamataryo/sky-follower-bridge
Check a few relevant starter packs. Start here: https://blueskydirectory.com/starter-packs/all?q=neuroscience
Once you follow a few people, use occasionally the Bsky Network Analyzer, which helps you find people followed by lots of the people you follow (check both “modes”). https://bsky-follow-finder.theo.io/

How to improve your Bsky experience?

Threads
If you always found Twitter threads chaotic, this one is for you:
Go to Settings > Thread Preferences > Threaded Mode > Yes.
Now all replies to a post appear in a threaded view, instead of having to navigate the chaos of random replies.

Useful feeds
- NeuroThreads: Threads discussing recent papers in neuroscience and related fields.
- NeuroPapers: This feed collects recent neuroscience papers from across the Bluesky network.
- Only Posts: to see no quotes/re-posts, only new posts from those you follow
- Follows & Replies: Posts and replies, but not re-posts.
- Popular With Friends: Discover random things your followers recently liked
- Catch Up: most popular posts of the week (from the whole bsky)
- Find other feeds here.

- Turn on "Show Posts From My Feeds" in Settings > Following Feed Preferences.
  This will sprinkle random posts from your feeds into your main Home feed.

Custom feed from list
Create a list of people.
You can then pin that list as a feed to your home tab.
The feed shows the posts of the people on that list in chronological order
Convert starter pack to list: You can use this tool.

Moderation tools
Bsky offers a number of options for escaping spam, bots, hate speech etc.
This is achieved using: Mute Lists, Labelers, and Mute words.
- Useful Mute Lists
  These are automatically updated, so you only need to subscribe once.

- Useful Labelers

- Detach quote
  If someone quotes your post in a way that is unwelcome, simply click the three dot menu on the quote post & click "Detach quote". This removes your post from their quote post.

- Reply Control
  This feature lets authors control who can reply or quote your posts.
  When posting, click on 'Anybody can interact' and choose who can reply (everyone, followers, or no one).

Search
How to search on Bsky? See here.

App passwords
Bluesky lets you create passwords for other apps to use (Settings > App Passwords).
This is helpful if you like to use apps that take advantage of the Bluesky API but don’t want to give them your permanent password.

RSS
Bsky accounts have RSS built in.
Just add “/rss” to the end of any profile page url (e.g. https://bsky.app/profile/nikolaskaralis.bsky.social/rss ) and you can follow them using RSS protocol.

Custom domains
Bsky offers the unique feature of custom domains, allowing users to personalize their handles with their own domain names.

Post embedding
If the embed of a post on Discord etc. doesn't properly work, put a c before bsky in the link before sending link.

Massively delete posts.
If you want to delete many posts (e.g., when testing an automatic tool), you can use this tool.

Other useful tools and info here and here.
Community projects built on the Bluesky API.

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