Sky-tan

@sky-tan.kawaii.social

6093 Followers 4 Following

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Bluesky Tutorial: How to make your handle kawaii

Follow these steps:
1. Visit kawaii.social in your browser and follow the instructions on the page.

2. They are pretty straight forward but ask in the comments if you have difficulties!

About community handles:
Bluesky uses domains as handles. The default handle
looks like this: @yourname.bsky.social

You can set your handle to any domain you own.
For example, as Bluesky owns the domain bsky.app
they can use @bsky.app as their handle. This automatically acts as a form of verification.

Those who don't own a domain can use
community handles, e.g. @sky-tan.kawaii.social

The user owning the domain kawaii.social allows
other Bluesky users to use it for their handles.
There are a few more community handles such as
swifties.social or army.social.

Please note:
1. You'll have to update links that lead to your old handle
2. If in the future kawaii.social would go down, you'll have
to go back to bsky.social again.

Please consider a donation to the domain owner

Bluesky tutorial
How to make links prettier.

Follow these steps:

1. Log into deck.blue, a third party client akin to what Tweet Deck was for Twitter.

2. Compose a new post by clicking the button on the top left.

3. Copy your link, select text you want to turn into a link and hit paste (CTRL+V)

4. Your links should look this in the composer: [Text](https://link.com)

5. Hit Post!

Bonus tip

Hit "Win + ." in the deck.blue post composer to open an emoji selector. Alternatively you can type ":" and it opens an emoji drop down selector like in Discord.

Question: What's an app password?
Sky-tan answers..
There are many third party clients like deck.blue (think of TweetDeck for Bluesky) that you can use with your Bluesky account.

App passwords allow you to use third party clients without giving full access to your account. So they are always different from you account password!

How to create an app password
1. Go to Settings > Advanced > App Passwords
2. Click on Create App Password to create one.
3. Give it a name and enable access to DMs if you want.
4. You will now get a password that looks like this
xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx that you can use on the
login page of third party clients.

Please note!
You can't view or change this password again.
If you lose it you can just quickly create a new
app password and login with that instead!

Stay safe!

Question: Which custom feeds do you recommend to follow?
Sky-tan answers:
Many custom feeds cater to specific interests. For example Game Dev shows all things game dev, Vtuber Fightclub shows all things vtubers etc. Find feeds for your interests in the Feeds menu!
Recommended feeds for general use are:
Mentions (This feed shows mentions, comments and quote reposts. Basically a way to filter notifications!)
Popular with Friends (Content that your follows like. Good for discovery, especially after following a lot of people.)
Quiet posters (Some follows don't post often. This feed makes sure you see their posts when they do!)
The 'Gram (Only shows pictures by people you follow. Good for those who just want to see art.)
Share your fav feeds in the replies!

Question: Is it true that Bluesky doesn't use algorithms?
Sky-tan answers..
Not quite! Bluesky actually has many algorithmic feeds but it gives you the right to choose and create them! Currently they can be categorized like this: Following (Posts from people you follow in a chronological order without algorithm), Discover (Official feed from Bluesky that acts like a For You page. Can be fine tuned!), Custom Feeds (Feeds created by the community. You can create your own too!)
Bonus tip: In settings > Following Feed Preferences you can enable posts from custom feeds to show up in your following feed!