Buttondown Documentation
Skeeters, rejoice! Buttondown lets you connect your Bluesky account to your newsletter in Buttondown. This lets you automatically cross-post your newsletter emails to Bluesky. This function is powered by our automations feature.
To automatically cross-post your newsletter emails to Bluesky, you have to complete two steps:
First, you must connect your Bluesky and Buttondown accounts. This requires two steps:
Bluesky requires you to generate an app-specific password for each app/integration that you connect to your account. This is different than your account password.
To generate this app-specific password:
You will not be able to view the app-specific password after you dismiss the screen in Bluesky. When you are prompted to copy the app password, copy it and save it somewhere secure.
Now you can use the app-specific password you created to connect to your Buttondown newsletter. Here's how:
The app-specific password is NOT your Bluesky account password.
To share your newsletters to Bluesky, you can create an automation that posts your newsletters to Bluesky whenever you send them. To do this, create a new Automation, or just click the Automation banner below:
The simplest and most common use case is to create an automation that posts your newsletters to Bluesky whenever you send them. Here's how:
To enable the new automation, either click Unpause in the automation panel, or click to enable the automation's toggle in the Automations page.