What is trending on Bluesky right now
- 1Cooling offBluesky adds pronouns to profiles
A merged code change in the Bluesky app lets users display pronouns on their profile pages.
1,522 postsrunning 4.9 hscience-techMicah and 4 more in the conversation - 2Cooling offState and local ballot measures
Early returns come in on initiatives in Colorado, Seattle, Providence, Arkansas, and elsewhere.
1,293 postsrunning 25.4 hpoliticsGovernor Tim Walz and 4 more in the conversation - 3Cooling offBluesky's first cultural decree
Users jokingly propose national rules, like fursuits for all and Diddy Kong Racing over Mario Kart.
768 postsrunning 4.6 hcultureEric Haywood and 4 more in the conversation - 4Cooling offTexas Democrats' full control bid
Democrats seek Texas government control, with plans to redraw GOP maps and expand voting access
2,818 postsrunning 23.9 hpoliticsjamelle and 4 more in the conversation - 5Cooling offOcarina of Time remake reviews
Critics praise the visuals of Nintendo's Switch 2 remake of the Nintendo 64 Zelda classic.
1,127 postsrunning 17.1 hentertainmentshar and 4 more in the conversation - 6FadingPlaying Deadlock
Gamers share how hard and fun the hero shooter is, and praise its characters and lore.
11,917 postsrunning 871.4 hentertainmentPecu's Cave 🔞 and 4 more in the conversation - 7FadingBob Dylan meets Pope Leo XIV
The American singer-songwriter had a private audience at the Vatican, soon after Patti Smith's visit.
867 postsrunning 11.6 hculturePBS News and 4 more in the conversation - 8FadingRight-wing Anakin Skywalker posting
Conservative users recast Star Wars villain Darth Vader as a hero in viral edits and memes.
1,919 postsrunning 78.6 hcultureMark McPherson and 4 more in the conversation - 9FadingBluesky traffic surges to double
The platform reported 200% of its usual data load, hitting 35.8 Gbps on a busy night.
382 postsrunning 23.4 hscience-techKat Tenbarge and 4 more in the conversation - 10FadingEuropean supermarket freezers hacked
Cyberattacks hit refrigeration at ICA and Coop stores in Sweden and Belgium, following similar attacks in France.
2,179 postsrunning 65.9 hscience-techBill and 4 more in the conversation - 11Cooling offUnion battle songs after election
Southern organizers object to Civil War Union anthems being used around their recent union ballots.
677 postsrunning 25.8 hpoliticsJoel and 4 more in the conversation - 12Cooling offUkraine reportedly hits Russian bot farms
Users credit Volodymyr Zelensky with strikes on Russian data centers and fewer trolls online.
438 postsrunning 15.6 hpolitics𝕕𝕠𝕘𝕤𝕒𝕣𝕖𝕤𝕠𝕔𝕠𝕠𝕝.𝕓𝕤𝕜𝕪.𝕤𝕠𝕔𝕚𝕒𝕝 🪬 and 4 more in the conversation - 13Cooling offColom's "bless her heart" reply
Scott Colom answered a question about Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith claiming victory with a Southern quip.
2,735 postsrunning 25.4 hpoliticsBill Grueskin and 4 more in the conversation - 14FadingGratitude to Black women voters
Users thank Black women and other voters of color for their turnout in the election.
181 postsrunning 9.3 hpoliticsAveta👾🇭🇹 and 4 more in the conversation - 15FadingTexas education board election
Election for control of the Texas State Board of Education, which shapes textbooks nationwide.
726 postsrunning 8.1 hpolitics𝙽𝚊𝚜𝚑 𝙸𝚜 𝙷𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝙵𝚘𝚛 𝙸𝚝 and 4 more in the conversation - 16FadingStandout election night moments
Users share the results that stuck with them, from Texas governor's race to Ohio and the South.
117 postsrunning 3.4 hpoliticsneuse river hag and 4 more in the conversation - 17FadingOnion headline on Abdul El-Sayed
The satirical site jokes about impatient demands over El-Sayed's campaign promises.
1,133 postsrunning 20.4 hpoliticsIlhan Omar and 4 more in the conversation - 18FadingEarly 2028 election speculation
After the midterms, people weigh possible White House runs by Ron DeSantis and Gavin Newsom.
201 postsrunning 9.1 hpoliticsBerny Belvedere and 4 more in the conversation - 19FadingDeSantis criticizes anti-trans ad spending
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis criticizes Republican spending on transgender ads in the midterms.
332 postsrunning 9.6 hpoliticsTexas Paul and 4 more in the conversation - 20FadingFetterman's role in Senate majority
Election night users hope a bigger Democratic majority makes Fetterman's swing vote moot.
856 postsrunning 28.3 hpoliticsmaura quint and 4 more in the conversation - 21FadingKatherine Clark's memorial sticker remarks
After the midterms, Clark cited "I Voted" stickers left at the Alex Pretti and Renee Good memorial.
637 postsrunning 36.4 hpoliticsGovernor Tim Walz and 4 more in the conversation - 22FadingUS data center ban votes
Local ballot measures on restricting AI data centers were on the ballot in Tuesday's elections.
3,246 postsrunning 159.3 hpolitics404 Media and 4 more in the conversation - 23FadingSpeculation Trump allies will flee
Users joke that Donald Trump and his associates may fly abroad to escape possible indictments.
1,024 postsrunning 25.3 hpoliticsRyan Estrada and 4 more in the conversation - 24FadingHaaland's New Mexico governor race
Ex-Interior Secretary of Laguna Pueblo runs to be the state's first Native American governor.
881 postsrunning 25.3 hpoliticsPBS News and 4 more in the conversation - 25FadingLos Angeles votes for mayor
Nithya Raman challenges incumbent Karen Bass, and Decision Desk HQ has projected the race.
339 postsrunning 25.1 hpoliticsNed Resnikoff and 4 more in the conversation
Fastest-climbing accounts, last 7 days
ranked out of 3,613,751 tracked accountsRanked on percentage follower growth with a 2,000-follower floor, not on raw followers gained. Ranking on raw gain returns the same handful of very large accounts every week, which answers who is already big rather than who is climbing. Bluesky publishes no growth history at all, so this comes from our own daily snapshots.
- 1Decision Desk HQ
@decisiondeskhq.bsky.social · politics
+105.7%
+11K to 22K
- 2Rep. Robert Garcia
@robertgarcia.house.gov
+36.6%
+5.1K to 19K
- 3AO3 Status
@status.archiveofourown.org · politics
+27%
+25K to 118K
- 4VoteHub
@votehub.com · politics
+26.9%
+3.6K to 17K
- 5Detroit Free Press
@freep.com · news
+14.6%
+1.5K to 12K
- 6George Chidi, Evil Reporter
@neonflag.bsky.social · news
+13.7%
+1.4K to 12K
- 7Maine Public
@mainepublic.org · ai
+12.9%
+1.4K to 12K
- 8Nevada Current
@nevadacurrent.com · news
+12.7%
+1.4K to 12K
- 9Abdul El-Sayed
@abdulelsayed.bsky.social
+11.7%
+11K to 104K
- 10Linda
@parklover.bsky.social · travel
+11.6%
+2.2K to 22K
- 11Joe Sonka 😐
@joesonka.lpm.org · news
+9.9%
+1.6K to 18K
- 12Sherman Smith, Kansas Reflector editor in chief
@journalist-sherman.bsky.social · news
+9.8%
+1.5K to 17K
Topics are read live from Bluesky’s public AppView, which needs no login and no API key, and cached for ten minutes so every visitor sees the same board. Snapshot taken 2026-11-05 04:10 UTC.
What this board is, in numbers
As of 2026-11-05 04:10 UTC, Bluesky’s trend service was surfacing 25 topics, 0 of them still marked as actively trending rather than cooling or fading, across 25 topics with a published post count totalling 38,315 posts. That is Bluesky’s own count of posts matched to each topic, not an estimate of ours.
The status label on each topic is Bluesky’s own grading, not ours. A topic marked trending is still accelerating; cooling means it has passed its peak but is still active; fading means the conversation has largely moved on. That distinction is the useful part of this board and almost no trends page publishes it, because almost no network exposes it.
Every other major network charges for this or hides it behind a login. Bluesky serves it from public.api.bsky.app to anyone who asks, which is why this page exists and why it needs no account, no key and no quota to work.
The endpoint is app.bsky.unspecced.getTrends. The “unspecced” prefix is Bluesky’s own: it is public and it is what the official client uses, but its lexicon is provisional and its fields can change. When it does not answer, this page falls back to app.bsky.unspecced.getTrendingTopics and says on the board that the post counts, timings and example accounts are unavailable from that source.
Why the climbing board is ranked on percentages
Bluesky publishes no follower history at all. There is no growth endpoint, no historical count, and nothing in the protocol that lets you ask what an account had a week ago. The climbing board therefore cannot be reproduced from the public API: it is the difference between our own daily snapshots of the accounts in our Bluesky directory.
It is ranked on percentage growth rather than raw followers gained, and that choice changes the answer completely. A ranking by raw gain returns the same handful of accounts with millions of followers every single week, because a 0.5% week on a two-million account beats a 40% week on a five-thousand account by a factor of five. Percentage growth answers the question people are actually asking, which is who is breaking out.
The 2,000-follower floor is there for the opposite failure. Without it the board would be an endless list of accounts that went from 12 followers to 40, which is a real 233% and tells you nothing.
What this board is not
It is not a hashtag ranking. Bluesky’s trend service groups conversations into named topics with a written description, which is closer to a news desk than to a list of tags, and it does not publish a hashtag volume chart for anyone to read.
It is not a global growth leaderboard. The climbing half only sees the Bluesky accounts in our own directory, and it says how many that is on the board. An account we do not track cannot appear on it however fast it is growing.
It carries no history. Both halves are a snapshot: the topics because the endpoint serves only the current set, and the climbing board because it is a seven-day window recomputed each hour. Nothing here charts a topic over time.
Frequently asked questions
Where do these trends come from?
app.bsky.unspecced.getTrends on public.api.bsky.app, Bluesky's own unauthenticated AppView. Verified live on 2 September 2026: it answers HTTP 200 with no API key and no login, and returns each topic's display name, a one-line description, a post count, a status of trending, cooling or stale, a category and five example accounts. This is Bluesky's own trend detection, not our reconstruction of it.
Why is the endpoint called 'unspecced'?
Because Bluesky has not frozen its shape yet. It is the same endpoint the official client uses, and it is public, but the lexicon is explicitly provisional and the fields can change without notice. If it stops answering, this page falls back to app.bsky.unspecced.getTrendingTopics, which is also public but carries no post counts, no status and no example accounts. When that happens the page says so and leaves those columns blank instead of guessing.
How often does it update?
The board is cached for ten minutes. Everyone asking the same question at the same moment should see the same answer, and refreshing a trends page twice a second should not put that load on Bluesky's AppView. The exact snapshot time is printed under the board.
What are the fastest-climbing accounts ranked on?
Percentage follower growth over the last seven days, with a 2,000-follower floor. Not raw followers gained: ranking on raw gain returns the same handful of very large accounts every week, which answers who is already big rather than who is climbing. The floor exists because percentage growth on a 40-follower account is meaningless in the other direction.
Where does the growth data come from? Bluesky does not publish it.
It does not, which is why we snapshot it. Our own engine records follower counts daily across the Bluesky accounts in our directory, and the climbing board is the difference between today's count and the one from seven days ago. Nothing on Bluesky exposes follower history, so this half of the page cannot be reproduced from the public API alone.
Why do the two halves sometimes disagree?
They answer different questions and they can fail separately. Topics are what the whole network is posting about, read live from Bluesky. Climbing accounts are who is gaining followers fastest inside the slice of Bluesky our directory tracks. Either half can be unavailable without the other, and when one is, the page says which and why rather than showing an empty board.
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PlayerSells is not affiliated with Bluesky or Bluesky Social PBC. Trending topics are read live from the AT Protocol’s public AppView and cached for ten minutes; the snapshot time is printed on the board. Follower growth is our own measurement, taken daily across the Bluesky accounts in our directory, because the protocol publishes no growth history.