Dear Bluesky: Please Add the Ability to Schedule Posts

Although Facebook, X, and Threads might dominate the social media landscape, Bluesky has offered a much more positive and useful experience since it opened to the public back in February 2024.

Bluesky users have far more control over what appears in their timeline via content moderation, custom feeds, and block lists. Which means your Bluesky feed actually contains stuff you want to see from people you actually follow, with little-to-no dross. Also, I appreciate that Bluesky’s not trying to be an “everything” platform, but rather, focuses on one thing — microblogging — and does it pretty well. Not well enough to be a substitute for having your own online platform, of course, but still better than its competitors.

That said, Bluesky does lack one feature that I’d call important and perhaps even necessary for online publishers: the ability to schedule posts from within its own interface.

Currently, if you want to schedule when your posts are published on Bluesky, you must use a third-party service like Buffer, Fedica, or Publer. But that requires setting up and managing yet another account, and putting your publication schedule at the mercy of another company. Compare that to Threads and X, both of which allow you to natively schedule a post as you’re creating it in their interfaces.

This may seem trivial. But as someone who publishes online fairly regularly, I often wish I could schedule my posts for more opportune or appropriate times and then forget about them, knowing that Bluesky — and no one else — will publish them on time.

If you do a search on Bluesky for “schedule posts” or something similar, you’ll find plenty of others requesting the feature. There’s also this open GitHub issue, which was created last July and has seen some activity since then. So clearly, there’s interest in the community for scheduling.

However, Bluesky has a relatively small team of full-time developers, particularly when compared to other platforms — which certainly limits their output even as it makes what they’ve accomplished in the last three years or so all the more impressive. Thus, I’m not exactly holding my breath that scheduling will be added anytime soon — though I’d love to be proven wrong. But perhaps if enough people speak up about the feature’s utility, it’ll move up the list of priorities a bit.