Read the source. See the conversation.

The web is full of work worth taking seriously: reporting, research, essays, analysis, primary documents, and arguments that deserve more than a passing glance.

But the public conversation around that work is usually scattered elsewhere. Someone shares an article. Another person quotes a revealing sentence. A researcher adds context. A journalist challenges a claim. A reader points to the next useful source.

By the time you find those responses, their connection to the original text is often gone.

Skysquare puts it back.

Skysquare is a Chrome extension that connects public Bluesky discussion to the pages that inspired it. While you read, it helps you see who shared an article, what they said, which passages drew attention, and where the discussion leads next.

The point is not to pull you into another feed. It is to bring relevant public conversation back to the source.

Install Skysquare

How it works

1. Open a page

When you visit a supported page, Skysquare looks for relevant public Bluesky posts that shared its URL or quoted language from its text.

It is not simply counting links. Skysquare is finding the public discussion that belongs with the work in front of you.

2. See the conversation in context

When Skysquare finds relevant discussion, it opens a sidebar beside the page.

You can see the people responding to the article, what they wrote, and the signals that help you decide what deserves your attention. When a post quotes language from the page, Skysquare can also highlight the passage directly in the text.

3. Follow what matters

Sort and filter the discussion around a source. See recent posts, surface stronger engagement, focus on a single author, and discover related articles through the people already participating in the conversation.

The result is a more useful reading environment: not just the article, and not just the reaction, but the relationship between them.

What changes when the conversation stays connected to the text

The source remains central

Most social platforms pull your attention away from the work itself.

Skysquare begins with the page you chose to read, then brings relevant public context back to it. The source remains the center of gravity.

Commentary becomes legible

A link share can mean almost anything. A quotation tells you more.

By connecting quoted passages to the original text, Skysquare makes it easier to see what people are actually responding to: a claim, a sentence, a finding, a framing choice, or a point of disagreement.

Discovery begins with attention

The people reading a page can lead you to the next useful thing.

Skysquare helps you discover related articles, authors, and sources through the paths already forming around the work you care about.

Built for the public web

Skysquare uses Bluesky as its social layer because public conversation should remain connected to public source material.

At a high level, Skysquare works like this:

Public Bluesky posts
        ↓
Links and quoted passages
        ↓
Skysquare’s public-context index
        ↓
The article in your browser
        ↓
Sidebar discussion and inline highlights

Skysquare organizes publicly available posts that link to a page or quote its text, then brings those connections into the browser experience. The extension handles the reading-facing work: matching passages on the page, rendering highlights, and presenting the relevant conversation alongside the source.

This is deliberately a light architectural explanation. The product is designed to make the relationship between a text and its public discussion easier to see - not to make readers think about the infrastructure behind it.

Your account and your control

You do not need to hand Skysquare your Bluesky password.

When you choose to sign in, Skysquare uses Bluesky’s OAuth authorization flow. You approve access through Bluesky itself, rather than entering your password into Skysquare.

Sign-in enables more personal ways to navigate public discussion, including features based on the public or account-authorized parts of your Bluesky social graph.

Skysquare is built around public conversation and source-based reading. It is not designed to turn private messages into product data or to replace the open web with another closed feed.

For details about how Skysquare handles information, see the Privacy Policy.

Who Skysquare is for

Skysquare is for people who care about the relationship between a text and the public response to it.

Journalists following the life of a story after publication.
Researchers tracing discussion back to its evidence.
Analysts looking for the people and arguments shaping a topic.
Writers who want to understand how readers are interpreting their work.
Readers who would rather follow ideas than scroll past them.

A better way to follow public discourse

The web does not need more noise layered on top of it.

It needs better ways to reconnect people to the texts, claims, evidence, and reporting they are already discussing.

Read the source. See the conversation. Follow where it leads.