Skysquare

Skysquare is a browser extension that brings Bluesky conversation back to the web pages people are actually discussing.

When someone shares an article on Bluesky, the conversation usually lives somewhere else: inside the feed, detached from the source material. Skysquare reverses that flow. It starts from the article itself and reveals the public discourse around it — who shared it, what they said, which passages they quoted, and how the conversation is moving.

It turns static web pages into living public objects: source material with social context, quotation, discovery, and discussion attached.

Skysquare is part product, part infrastructure bet: a way to make the open web more legible as public conversation moves onto protocol-based networks like AT Protocol.

Problem

Public discourse is increasingly detached from its source material.

People share, quote, argue about, and interpret the same articles across Bluesky and other social platforms, but the page itself gives no signal that any of this is happening. A reader can land on a news story, essay, report, or blog post and have no idea who is discussing it, what they noticed, which claims are contested, or where the article sits inside a wider public conversation.

The feed treats the article as an object to pass around. The web page treats itself as a terminal destination. Skysquare treats the source as the beginning of the conversation.

Concept

Skysquare overlays Bluesky discourse directly onto the page being read.

When a reader visits a supported article or source page, Skysquare can show the Bluesky posts that shared it, the people participating in the conversation, the passages being quoted, and the surrounding engagement. The goal is not to create a new comment section. The conversation already exists. Skysquare makes it visible at the point where it matters most: the moment of reading.

The deeper shift is from feed-first discovery to source-first discovery:

feed → link → source becomes source → discourse → people → more sources.

That inversion matters. It lets readers move from an article to the public conversation around it, from the conversation to the people shaping it, and from those people to the other sources they are reading and sharing.

Why it matters

Skysquare is a bet on the open web.

If public discourse is going to keep moving through social networks, then source material needs a way to carry its surrounding context with it. Articles should not sit inert while the conversation about them happens elsewhere. Readers should be able to see the social life of a document without abandoning the document itself.

Paired with Infoscape, Skysquare also becomes epistemic infrastructure. It can reason about the kinds of sources being discussed — newspapers, universities, government agencies, think tanks, blogs, advocacy organizations, propaganda outlets, spam farms, and more — instead of treating every URL as the same kind of object.

That is the larger project: not just conversation overlay, but source-aware public discourse infrastructure.

Status

Skysquare is in active production development, with the browser extension, Bluesky authentication, source indexing, post ingestion, quote detection, and backend services already operational.

The system currently combines a Chrome extension, AT Protocol integration, indexed URL and post data, source classification through Infoscape, and backend infrastructure designed to support real-time discourse overlays on the open web.