Alternatives and competitors
Sites like bsky.network
The 20 closest decentralized social network infrastructure alternatives to bsky.network, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 4 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to bsky.network? The closest matches are Ably, bluewin.ch and HashiCorp. We match sites by what they actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Vote on each alternative and leave a short note to help the next person choose.
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01 · Entity
About bsky.network
bsky.network
Bluesky Protocol Services
High scale open social, unlocked for every builder. Bluesky operates public infrastructure for the AT Protocol — Jetstream, Relay, and the Bluesky API — as open services anyone can build on.
Summary by Claude
Bluesky PBC's developer portal and public infrastructure for the AT Protocol. It offers the Jetstream event stream, the Relay firehose and the Bluesky API, with documentation, SDKs and tutorials for building apps on the decentralized social network.
- Who it’s for
- Developers building on Bluesky/AT Protocol
- Business model
- Free open services
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to bsky.network’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Lines split each axis at the median. Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
03 · Nearest neighbours
Alternatives to bsky.network
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to bsky.network, thumbs down if it isn’t.
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Ably | Realtime platform for chat, AI and live apps at scale
Ably is the realtime platform built for scale and reliability. Power live chat, messaging, collaborative apps, and AI experiences that never drop.
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News & Email at blue News | Switzerland, Sports, People, International
News from Switzerland and around the world covering sports, politics, entertainment, business & digital — Live streams – Webmail login Bluewin email
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Vercel Security Checkpoint
American software company
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Push your ideas to the web | Netlify
Create with AI or code, deploy instantly on production infrastructure. One platform to build and ship.
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Hugging Face – The AI community building the future.
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
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AI App and Website Builder | Replit
Describe what you want. Replit builds it. Get a working app or website in minutes. No coding required.
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Free web proxy and a cutting-edge online proxy | CroxyProxy
CroxyProxy is a cutting-edge secure web proxy service. Use it to access your favorite websites and web applications: as a Facebook or YouTube proxy. It is free, you can try this online proxy right now!
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Full featured documentation deployment platform - Read the Docs
Read the Docs is a documentation building and hosting platform aimed at helping developers creating documentation from code with versioned documentation, integrated search, pull request previews and more.
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Cloudflare: Build for the agent era
Welcome to Cloudflare - Powering the next generation of applications
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Render | The cloud for builders
Deploy and scale any app or agent from your first user to your billionth. Build faster on intuitive cloud infrastructure for the modern web.
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Pushy - Lightning-Fast & Highly-Reliable Push Notifications
Pushy is a reliable push notification gateway for time-sensitive, mission-critical apps.
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Syncthing
open source continuous file synchronization software
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Flurry | Mobile App Analytics Platform for Android & iOS
Flurry is a mobile app analytics platform for Android & iOS that empowers product, development and growth experts to build better apps that users love.
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Kubernetes
Kubernetes, also known as K8s, is an open source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. It groups containers that make up an application into logical units for easy management and discovery. Kubernetes builds upon 15 years of experience of running production workloads at Google, combined with best-of-breed ideas and practices from the community. Planet scaleDesigned on the same principles that allow Google to run billions of containers a week, Kubernetes can scale without increasing your operations team.
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Block
Made up of Square, Cash App, Afterpay, TIDAL, Bitkey, and Proto, Block, Inc. builds technology to increase access to the global economy.
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Mixcloud - This is Audio Culture
Join a global community where creators craft a deeper listening experience.
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Kong, The AI Connectivity Company | Kong Inc.
From APIs to AI, Kong is the fabric of modern connectivity. Centralize LLM access, automate API workflows, and secure your digital ecosystem at scale.
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Learn to Code - for Free | Codecademy
Learn the technical skills to get the job you want. Join over 50 million people choosing Codecademy to start a new career (or advance in their current one).
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LifeStream
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Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to bsky.network’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones bsky.network uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What bsky.network is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
- Fonts
- Google Fonts asset https://fonts.googleapis.com/
- Web servers
- OpenResty header server: openresty
- Site search
- Algolia page source: .algolia.net
- DNS hosting
- Amazon Route 53 NS ns-1103.awsdns-09.org
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what bsky.network adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console · not on bsky.network 16/20
- Google Workspace · not on bsky.network 14/20
- Apple Business · not on bsky.network 9/20
- Cloudflare · not on bsky.network 8/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on bsky.network 8/20
- Stripe · not on bsky.network 7/20
- Atlassian · not on bsky.network 6/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on bsky.network 6/20
- React · not on bsky.network 6/20
- Amazon Route 53 6/20
- Zendesk · not on bsky.network 6/20
- Next.js · not on bsky.network 5/20
- Miro · not on bsky.network 5/20
- OpenAI · not on bsky.network 5/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on bsky.network 5/20
- Zoom · not on bsky.network 4/20