Robb. Knight.

I've been helping getting MacStories setup on Bluesky this weekend and I came across a few handy sites. There are loads of interesting Bluesky-related links in this awesome-bluesky list on GitHub, below is just the ones I happened upon and found useful.

ClearSky allows you to see which lists (starter packs) you're in, who you've blocked and who's blocked you. As an aside, the blocking data being public and having no way to opt out of a starter pack shows a complete lack of consideration for how this could be abused but that's not the point of this post. Less important but why is seven the minimum for a starter pack this makes me very sad.

I found two tools for resolving DIDs which you need for various API-related things. A DID is a "persistent, long-term identifier for every account." and they look something like this: did:plc:b3i7xuqiybecdpm3lkywmlwv.

• Bluesky DID Resolver
• Bluesky DID Generator - confusingly named as a "generator"

To use Bluesky in Mastodon clients like Ivory, you can use Skybridge. I doubt I would ever check Bluesky if I couldn't use Ivory. I setup my own install of this with Coolify. Deck Blue is a nice web client though.

Finally SkyLink is a Chrome extension similar (although not as advanced) to Streetpass.

You can see all the MacStories team and podcast accounts in the MacStories starter pack and I'm there as @rknight.me.