So I noticed a lot of people start joining BlueSky. Notably after the election. I decided to join just to see how it is. I definitely enjoy getting my fill of memes on Twitter — or X — or whatever it’s called these days.

One cool feature is the ability to create these “starter packs” which helps people figure out who to follow as you might imagine people that already have a well-established and long used Twitter account, might find it difficult to start from scratch. Hello? Was that 2006 calling? Here is a Starter Packer for HashiCorp Ambassadors that I am a part of:

https://bsky.app/starter-pack/marko.social/3l7v45brppo2v

Here is a directory of Starter Packs for Micrsoft:

https://bluesky.ms/starterpacks

A colleague of mine, Merill Fernando, also started a pretty slick self-managing Starter Pack using GitHub pull request process to help get Microsoft MVPs and FTEs into a directory on the platform. Search bluesky.ms

https://bluesky.ms/

After smashing a few of these Starter Packs I am already up to 374 people that I am following! Pretty crazy. Definitely enough to get you started!