Connect Bluesky

Bluesky is the only channel here that doesn’t use a permission screen. You give Publiz an app password instead, which is a separate, revocable password you generate yourself. It is also the channel with the tightest limit, 300 characters.

Connect it

1. On Bluesky, go to Settings then App passwords (bsky.app/settings/app-passwords) and make a new one. Tick Allow access to your direct messages if you want your DMs in the Inbox. Copy it, it looks like xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx.

2. In Publiz, open Settings then Connected Accounts and press Connect Account.

   

3. Pick Bluesky. Instead of sending you to Bluesky, Publiz asks for two things right there: your handle (alice.bsky.social) and the app password you just made.

4. Save, and the account appears with its display name and avatar.

An app password is not your Bluesky password

Never put your real Bluesky password in here. An app password is scoped, you can make as many as you like, and revoking one from Bluesky’s settings cuts Publiz off without touching your account. If you ever want to disconnect for good, revoke it there as well as disconnecting here.

What Bluesky allows

• 300 characters per post, counting hashtags and your signature. Go over it and the Bluesky version becomes a thread, one post after another.
• Up to 4 images per post, and each one has to be under about 1 MB. This is Bluesky’s limit, not ours, and it is small. A photo straight off a phone is usually over it, so Bluesky gets a shrunk copy when the post goes out. The other channels still get the full-size image.
• Video up to about 100 MB. If a post has both a video and images, the video wins.
• Posts can be removed from Publiz, which deletes them on Bluesky too.

Options worth setting

• Who can interact — Everybody, Mentioned only, Followers only, People you follow, or Nobody.
• Allow quote posts — on by default.
• Languages — defaults to English. It tells Bluesky’s feeds who to show the post to, so it is worth setting if you post in Indonesian.
• First comment — posted as a reply from your account right after the post goes live.

Comments and DMs

Read, reply, delete, and like. Bluesky has no way to hide a comment, so deleting is the only way to take one down. Replies to your posts land in the Inbox alongside everything else, and a reply can carry up to four images.

Your DMs come in too, checked every few minutes, and you answer them from the same place. That needs the app password to allow direct messages. If yours doesn’t, make a new one with the box ticked and reconnect with it.

When it doesn’t work

A post went out with fewer images than you attached. Bluesky skips an image over its 1 MB limit rather than failing the post. Images are shrunk to fit first, but a very large one can still miss. Resize it yourself and repost.

Bluesky is red in the composer and you can’t publish. One post in the thread is empty, or still over 300 characters once its number, hashtags and signature are added. Fill it in, trim it, or add another post.

The interaction settings didn’t stick. If Bluesky refuses the permission record, the post still goes up but with default permissions rather than failing outright. Check the post on Bluesky and set it there if it matters.

You’re asked for the app password again. Publiz normally refreshes its Bluesky session quietly in the background, and pressing Reconnect tries that first. Being asked for the password means the session is too old to renew, or the app password was revoked on Bluesky. Generate a new one.