Helpful Guides & Tutorials
Simple, practical guides to help you create, edit, organize and share your work.
How to Plan a Bluesky Content Calendar
A simple way to plan a week or month of Bluesky posts in advance, so you're never staring at a blank composer trying to think of something to post.
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How to Set Up a Custom Domain Handle on Bluesky
How to turn a domain you already own into your Bluesky handle, using the DNS TXT record method or the well-known file alternative, plus common fixes.
How to Choose a Bluesky Scheduling Tool: What Actually Matters
Bluesky has no built-in scheduler, so the tool you pick shapes your whole routine. What to compare — time zones, publishing reliability, media support, pricing and focus — before you commit.
SkyyCast vs Buffer for Bluesky: Which Scheduling Workflow Fits You?
Buffer schedules to eleven networks; SkyyCast does Bluesky and nothing else. Where each one fits, so you can pick the workflow that matches how you actually post.
SkyyCast vs Metricool for Bluesky: Focused Publishing or All-in-One Analytics?
Metricool pairs multi-network scheduling with deep analytics; SkyyCast keeps to Bluesky publishing with a lighter set of numbers. Where each one fits.
Why Your Photos Look Blurry on Social Media — and How to Fix It
Social platforms recompress every upload. Here is why photos come out soft, and how dimensions, source quality, sRGB colour and file format change the result.
The Social Media Pre-Publish Checklist: What to Check Before You Hit Post
The mistakes that make you cringe later are almost never strategic — they're a broken link, the wrong handle, a missing alt text. Here's a ninety-second check to run before anything goes live, grouped so it feels like a habit rather than paperwork.
Bluesky Follow Limits and Rate Limits, Explained
Bluesky has no hard cap on how many accounts you can follow and no daily follow limit. What it has is a shared hourly rate limit — a few thousand actions — that a person using the app never reaches. Here's the real mechanism and which numbers to ignore.
Bluesky Lists vs. Starter Packs vs. Custom Feeds: When to Use Each
Lists, starter packs, and custom feeds all group accounts, so people mix them up. They do three different jobs: organising your reading, recommending people to others, and collecting posts by rule. Here's what each one does, where they overlap, and which to reach for.
Content Pillars: How to Pick 3–5 That Actually Work
Content pillars aren't a list of topics you're allowed to cover — they're a decision about what you'll stop posting. Here's how to derive 3–5 from what you already publish, test each one for breadth and difference, and weight them without turning your feed into a quota.
Do Hashtags Work on Bluesky? How to Use Them Well
Yes, hashtags work on Bluesky — but mainly to make posts findable in search and eligible for keyword feeds, not to boost reach. Here's how they actually function, when they help, how to choose them, and what they can't do.
How Often Should You Post on Bluesky? A Practical Answer
Bluesky has never published guidance on how often to post, and there's no frequency study to cite. Here's what the platform's chronological feed and rate limits actually imply, what experienced accounts tend to do, and how to settle on a cadence you can keep.
How to Add Alt Text on Bluesky (and Why It Matters for Reach)
Bluesky makes alt text quick to add and its community expects it. Here's exactly how to add it to images and video, the setting that forces you to, the mistake you can't undo, and an honest look at what alt text does and doesn't do for who sees your posts.
How to Do Audience Research on Bluesky
Bluesky's network is public, so audience research doesn't need paid tools — it needs a method. Here's how to find the accounts your intended audience follows, read the replies and feeds for recurring questions and gaps, and turn it into a short brief you can post against.
How to Get Added to Bluesky Starter Packs
Starter packs are one of the fastest ways to get followed on Bluesky, but you can't add yourself — a curator has to include you. Here's how starter packs work, how to make your account an obvious pick, and how to ask without spamming.
How to Get Your Posts Into Bluesky Custom Feeds
On Bluesky, custom feeds do the work a recommendation algorithm does elsewhere. Here's how feeds decide which posts to include, and concrete steps to get your posts in front of the right ones.
How to Optimize Your Bluesky Profile for Followers
Visitors decide whether to follow you in a few seconds, from your display name, avatar, bio, and first post. Your Bluesky profile isn't a ranking factor — it's a first impression. Here's how to make each part clear, plus a five-minute audit.
How to Schedule a Bluesky Thread (Step by Step)
Bluesky has no native scheduling, so a thread you want out at a set time has to run through a third-party tool that builds the reply chain and posts it for you. Here's how thread scheduling works, which tools support it, and the checks that keep a scheduled thread from posting out of order or half-finished.
How to Turn a Blog Post Into a Bluesky Thread
A blog post and a Bluesky thread are different formats, and pasting one into the other works badly. Here's a repeatable way to adapt an article into a thread that holds attention, plus the Bluesky mechanics — the 300-character limit, the native thread composer, reply controls — that shape how you write it.
How to Use Bluesky Trending Topics for Content Ideas
Bluesky's Trending Topics panel shows what the network is posting about right now. Used with a filter, it's a source of timely post ideas; used without one, it drags you into commenting on things you can't add to. Here's how the feature works and how to mine it.
What Bluesky Analytics Can (and Can't) Tell You
Bluesky has never shipped an analytics dashboard, and the data it exposes leaves out the number every other platform shows first: how many people saw your post. Here's what you can actually measure on Bluesky, what no tool can give you, and which metrics are worth your attention.
What the AT Protocol Actually Means for Creators
The AT Protocol is the open system Bluesky runs on, and its pitch to creators is ownership of your identity and audience instead of renting them from an app. Here's what that actually delivers today, what's still unfinished, and what a creator should do about it — minus the engineering.
Bluesky's 10-Minute Video Limit: What It Means for Creators
Bluesky raised its video limit from three minutes to ten. Here's what the longer allowance actually lets you do, what it doesn't change about reach or revenue, and how to post a long video that people will watch.
Do Links Hurt Your Reach on Bluesky? What's Actually True
On X, posts with links were throttled, and many creators carry that fear to Bluesky. Here's what Bluesky has actually said about outbound links, what publisher traffic data shows, and how to share links without losing reach.
Bluesky Attie: What Creators Need to Know About Its AI-Powered Feeds and Research Tools
What Bluesky's AI assistant Attie actually does, what's still only a plan, and what its custom feeds and research tools could mean for getting discovered.
How to Schedule Bluesky Posts (Without Losing Momentum)
A practical walkthrough of scheduling a Bluesky post ahead of time, and why that one habit makes it easier to keep posting.
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