Bluesky are considering paid subscriptions

With 20+ million users and adding ~100,000 every day, Bluesky’s bills are starting to stack up. Oh, and they also raised $15 million in October.

All the signs are here: time to make some cash.

Leaked subscription plans

Screenshots of potential subscription plans leaked on Bluesky's GitHub repo. They show an $8 per month plan, or $72 per year, for 'Bluesky+' which seems to include:

• A profile badge

• Custom app icon

• Profile customisation

• Higher quality videos

• Higher video upload limits

Most, if not all, of these features should remind you of X's paid subscriptions which include essentially the same perks (plus Grok and fewer ads).

The profile badge is likely related to the verification system CEO Jay Graber hinted at a few days ago. The actual implementation of the verification system is, as of yet, still unclear.

It ain't done until it's done

Bluesky and several developers have warned that the screenshots may not represent the actual final product.

“Some of these are likely to make it, but please don’t take this as an actual list of planned features. We’ll announce the actual list when more work is done,” Bluesky engineer Dan Abramov said on the platform.