Bluesky teases a roadmap for 2026: better Discover food, real-time experiences and more

Social network Bluesky is laughing its strategy for the year ahead, emphasizing things like improving the algorithmic Discover app feed, giving users better ideas of who to follow, making the app more intuitive, and more.

At the same time, the company admitted that it needs to work on getting the “basics” right, too.

It has been established for people in the early 2024 after the call timeout, other X processes and Threads have finished 42 million usersbased on data taken directly from the Bluesky API for developers.

Although it is distinguished by its social network that feeds its own preferences and adaptive algorithms, Bluesky has not joined its competitors in terms of features, such as private accounts, articles, support for long videos, and more.

Bluesky CEO Alex Benzer acknowledged some of the concerns new post on the company websitewhere he said that “the basics have to be solid” before Bluesky can expect users to stick around.

That word comes after a to use slow down on Bluesky, which saw a 40% year-over-year drop in daily users from October 2025, according to data from market intelligence provider Similaweb, according to Forbes.

In addition to supporting documents, Benzer said that the developer of the program should manage the media, realizing that three-minute videos are not enough, and videos should download quickly. Additionally, he wants Bluesky to support uploading more than four images at once, and he thinks threads should be easier to create, too.

The importance of private accounts has not been addressed, but this will take a long time to realize, Bluesky previously explained. The system and of the basic protocol, AT Protocol (or AT Proto for short), that finally support private accounts. But that will not come soon.

Benzer also pointed to an update to the Discover feed app, which can add topic tags as a way to direct people to posts related to their interests. “Who to follow” views will also be improved, as getting high quality links can improve user experience.

Benzer believes that Bluesky should have a “real-time” feel, whether it’s events like sports, or interesting political moments like elections. The company is developing tools to help its team produce high-quality and timely food for live events, he said. The team is looking for new features within the feed that could make the feed “less like looking at posts and more like visits,” Benzer said. (What that means, we’re not really sure!)

In terms of expanding the ecosystem, which the community has named “Atmosphere,” the company wants to improve communication with other applications that are also built on the AT Protocol.

For example, if you live on Twitch or Open spaceother software powered by the AT Protocol, you’ll see a LIVE badge appear on your profile picture on Bluesky.

Benzer said another such merger is coming “soon.”

Although Bluesky has been successful in increasing users, the real use of Bluesky ebbs and flows, and operations often change on X or times of political crisis. Meanwhile, Meta’s Threads has become X’s next competitor. New third-party data shows that The thread is now more than X for everyday phone users, even the X was still ahead of the Internet.

The main advantage of Threads is that it is supported by technical tools, which allows for high-quality upgrades, easy upgrades, and tons of features. As a result, Threads has been rapidly shipping new products over the past year or so, including things like related areas of interest, well filtered, DMs, long wordsand missing documents. This has helped differentiate X and gain traction among users, including those looking for a network that favors content over politics, which Threads had. to be mocked above until a year ago.