Yo.
Everybody bluscoing?
No follows. You still hear the talk.
blusco is a Bluesky client that doesn't use follows.
No follows. You still hear the talk.
blusco is a Bluesky client that doesn't use follows.
You hear the people at the next table. You don't talk to them. Run into them enough, and one day you're talking. blusco puts that on the screen.
Follows split people into insiders and outsiders. blusco has no follows. So there is no inside and no outside. Familiar faces get the same bubble color as everyone else. The icon is a Klein bottle: a bottle with no inside and no outside.
Timelines lost their time order. They became stages for recommendations. blusco windows run in time order. Replies line up as conversations. Other people's talk drifts over from the next table.
You don't ask someone to be your friend. So blusco has no follows. Combine people, keywords, and feeds into windows of your own. Nobody sees who you read.
Each post is split into bubbles of four lines, stacked a little off-center. The same post always gets the same shape. Long posts and threads read as one person chatting. English posts are set in a comic-book hand.
Long posts join into one puffy cloud.
No hearts. A blue dot instead. One press makes a river pebble. Eight make a cut sapphire. No numbers. The shine tells you.
1pebble
2+cloudy crystal
4+rough shard
8+cut gem
youbrightestScroll, and a Klein bottle puffs up in the corner. Scroll back, and it fills with ink. Tap it: one hour back. It fills in 24 hours and starts over in the 25th. No inside, no outside. Nothing spills.
In a Kyoto townhouse, the room facing the street is the mise. The old word means a shelf for showing things. Windows are for looking. Shops are for showing. A podcast. A new song. An app you made. A drawing. Shelve your posts, or anyone's. Up to three shops each. No rankings. Small shops stay visible.
blusco started on October 4, 2026. We used it every day. We fixed what felt wrong. Six rules came out of that.
No like counts. No follower counts. See the amount in the shine of a stone and the number of faces. Numbers make you compare.
A bubble is a voice. A frame is something shown. Speed lines: a post carried in. A cloud: replies closed. Dots: a call nobody has answered yet. You know before you read.
Everyone else lines up on the left. Eyes start from the left. So you see who is talking before you read what they say.
Add someone to a window. Visit a shop. Nobody is notified. Your posts don't record which window you wrote from.
The dock never changes. One icon opens one place. We tried a dock that changed with context. We dropped it.
A blue dot is a like. A poll answer is a reply. People without blusco can join the same conversation.
ATProto OAuth. blusco never sees your password.
No signup. The iPhone and Mac versions are in development. Not released yet.
Fix a post within five minutes. The link stays the same.
Answers are replies. People on the official app can answer too.
A window for the people you keep running into. Up to 50.
Pick either. Posts in other languages are translated on your device.
blusco nano is a small window for posting from the Mac. Press ⇧⌘B in any app, and the composer comes forward. The bottle on the right is a character meter: it fills at 300. Click it, and what you wrote joins the stack as a bubble. Click it with an empty field, and the stack goes out as a thread.
Needs macOS 14.2 or later. It is not signed or notarized, so the first time, click Open Anyway in System Settings.
A Bluesky account is all you need. No signup.
