bsky.app

Bluesky

Who runs Bluesky, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest microblogging social network alternatives.

Who’s behind it
Not stated
Online since
Unknown
Trackers
Prices
No pricing page
Last price change
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Closest alternative
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01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs Bluesky

Bluesky bsky.app

Social media as it should be. Find your community among millions of users, unleash your creativity, and have some fun again.

Wikidata: American social networking service

Company
No imprint we could read
Online since
Not in the Internet Archive
Audience

02 · Privacy

What Bluesky tracks

What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.

trackers that follow visitors

None of the 14 alternatives below has fewer; 7 have more.

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Cookie banner
None found

We found no trackers, ad pixels or third-party embeds on Bluesky’s homepage.

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to Bluesky

Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Bluesky, thumbs down if it isn’t.

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  1. 01
    Threads threads.com Top 1K

    social networking site operated by Meta Platforms

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  2. 02
    mastodon.social Top 10K English No trackers

    Mastodon.social

    The original server of Mastodon, operated by Mastodon GmbH for the common good.

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  3. 03
    twitter.com Top 100

    American social networking service founded in 2006

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  4. 04
    x.com Top 100

    American social networking service founded in 2006

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  5. 05
    Tumblr tumblr.com Top 1K English 1 tracker

    Tumblr

    Tumblr is the place you go to be yourself on the internet. No performance, no perfection. Just you, and the people who get it.

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  6. 06
    Farcaster farcaster.xyz English No trackers

    Farcaster

    A decentralized social network

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  7. 07
    joinmastodon.org English No trackers

    Mastodon - Decentralized social media

    Learn more about Mastodon, the radically different, free and open-source decentralized social media platform.

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  8. 08
    Weibo weibo.com Top 1K

    Chinese microblogging website

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  9. 09
    AT Protocol atproto.com English No trackers

    AT Protocol

    social networking protocol

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  10. 10
    Instagram instagram.com Top 100 English No trackers

    Instagram

    Create an account or log in to Instagram - Share what you're into with the people who get you.

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  11. 11
    Mixi mixi.jp Japanese 1 tracker

    ソーシャル・ネットワーキング サービス [mixi(ミクシィ)]

    mixi(ミクシィ)は、日記、写真共有、ゲームや便利ツール満載のアプリなど、さまざまなサービスで友人・知人とのコミュニケーションをさらに便利に楽しくする、日本最大規模のソーシャル・ネットワーキングサービスです。

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  12. 12
    Habr habr.com Top 10K English 4 trackers

    Publications / My feed / Habr

    collaborative blog

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  13. 13
    Reddit reddit.com Top 1K

    American social news aggregation website and discussion portal

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  14. 14
    Pikabu pikabu.ru Top 1K Russian 1 tracker

    Горячее – самые интересные и обсуждаемые посты | Пикабу

    Пикабу – это уютное информационно-развлекательное сообщество, где любой желающий может опубликовать пост. Истории из жизни, свежие шутки и мемы, познавательные статьи, забавные фото и видео, интересные комментарии. Если другим пользователям понравится ваша история, ее увидят сотни тысяч людей.

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  15. 15
    mstdn.social English No trackers

    Mastodon 🐘

    A general-purpose Mastodon server with a 500 character limit. All languages are welcome.

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  16. 16
    LiveJournal livejournal.com Top 1K

    Russian social networking service

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  17. 17
    kwai.com Top 10K English No trackers

    Make Everyone Shine

    Kwai is a social network for short videos and trends. Discover funny short videos. Contribute to the virtual community with recordings, videos of your life, playing daily challenges or likes the best memes and videos. Download the app to share your life with short videos and choose from dozens of magical effects and filters for them.

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  18. 18
    VK vk.ru Top 1K English 1 tracker

    VK.com | VK

    social networking service from Russia

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  19. 19
    GREE gree.jp Top 10K Japanese 1 tracker

    GREE(グリー)

    ソーシャルゲームプラットフォーム「GREE(グリー)」は、人気ゲームが盛りだくさん!スマホから無料ソーシャルゲームを楽しむならGREE。

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    Главная - прикольные картинки, мемы, комиксы, гифки на JoyReactor

    Главная страница JoyReactor - это смешные картинки, арты, игровой юмор и гифки (с котами). Но стоит копнуть чуть глубже, и можно найти больше постов и разделов, интересных именно вам, и подписаться на них. Полезно каждый день поглядывать в разделы Тренды и Наши любимые теги на главной странице, можно повстречать много неожиданного и, как минимум, занятного.

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Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Bluesky’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Bluesky uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.

04 · History

No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Bluesky adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.

05 · Details

How we measure

Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.

The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 4 technologies
Neighbours
k = 20
Sites searched
9,192
Vector
384-d
Query
48 ms

Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to Bluesky’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.

similarity × popularity

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