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This change adds a Bluesky social share link option. Note I've added CSS to bootstrap-social for Bluesky, using appropriate colors derived from the Bluesky guidelines. I'm not sure if the local copy of bootstrap-social is the correct place to be adding these really, but given upstream hasn't see any updates in years (and obviously predates Bluesky), it seems unlikely that any future conflicts are going to be introduced here.

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I appreciate the effort and your initiative, but I prefer not to add Bluesky to this very exclusive list. Bluesky is a much much less popular social network, it looks like it has less than 30M users (that's actually less than what I thought!). So in the interest of simplicity, I prefer not to add it. If/when it becomes a big player, I will happily revive this PR :) I hope you understand!

@daattali daattali closed this Mar 15, 2025
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Fair enough, though I will say from my perspective it seems like it already is a big player. Maybe it depends what country you're in, but for example in the UK I regularly see TV programmes advertising for audience engagement on Bluesky alongside the usual FB/Instagram/Twitter networks; I appreciate this is anecdotal to some extent. On the other hand you do see users with a large following on both Twitter and Bluesky claim that engagement levels are greater on the latter, the theory being that while Twitter has an objectively larger user base, a significant fraction of this are inactive accounts and/or bots. We've also got heads of state such as the Prime Minister of Canada using it, so it's not like it's some niche thing.

Anyway, no worries, I understand, just seems like it's something that people would want sooner or later, if not already.

(I also discovered issue #1440 while adding this btw; I think that probably needs attention.)

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I did a bit more research, it does look like the UK has the highest users per capita, which would explain why you see that! But it's still a very insignificant number of users relative to social media (every list of soical media platforms I looked at shows that Bluesky is way way down the list in # of users). But it also looks like it has explosive growth in the last half year, so maybe if it keeps going, it'll become globally relevant. But for now, while the absolute number is still very low, I'll stand by my decision :) But I'll reopen this issue so that I'll remember to revisit this later.

@daattali daattali reopened this Mar 16, 2025
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