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Bluesky

Available on theStandard plan.

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:

  1. Connect your Bluesky and Buttondown accounts
  2. Posting newsletters to Bluesky

Setting up your Bluesky integration

First, you must connect your Bluesky and Buttondown accounts. This requires two steps:

  1. Generating an app-specific password in Bluesky
  2. Connecting your Bluesky account to Buttondown

#1. Generating an app-specific password in Bluesky

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:

  1. Log into your Bluesky account
  2. Navigate to Settings → App Passwords
  3. Click Add app password and follow the prompts to create a new password.
  4. Copy the newly generated app password and save it somewhere secure.
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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.

#2. Connecting your Bluesky account to Buttondown

Now you can use the app-specific password you created to connect to your Buttondown newsletter. Here's how:

  1. Log into your Buttondown account
  2. Navigate to Settings → Integrations.
  3. Find the "Bluesky" integration option and click Configure. The Bluesky configuration panel opens.
  4. Enter your Bluesky username in the appropriate field.
  5. Paste your generated App-specific password in the appropriate field.
  6. Click Save changes.
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The app-specific password is NOT your Bluesky account password.

Sharing your newsletters to Bluesky

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:

Click to use
Automatically post to Bluesky
This automation will automatically post new emails onto Bluesky
When an email is sent
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Post on Bluesky

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:

  1. Navigate to the Automations page and click New. The "New automation" panel opens.
  2. (Optional) Give your automation a human-readable "Name."
  3. Set the Trigger to when an email is sent.
  4. Set the Action to Create a Bluesky post.
  5. (Optional) Configure any other fields to customize the automation. If you leave these fields blank, the automation will post to your Bluesky account as soon as you send a new newsletter email.
  6. Click Save changes.

To enable the new automation, either click Unpause in the automation panel, or click to enable the automation's toggle in the Automations page.