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.

Around that work, a public conversation unfolds.

A journalist shares an investigation. A researcher adds context. Someone quotes a single revealing paragraph. Another person challenges a conclusion, traces the claim to an earlier source, or points toward the next piece worth reading.

Those conversations are valuable—but they rarely remain connected to the work that inspired them.

By the time you encounter them in a social feed, the article has disappeared, the quotation has lost its context, and the discussion has become detached from the source.

Skysquare puts those relationships back together.

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

The goal is not to pull you into another social network.

It is to help you understand the public conversation without leaving the source.

How it works

1. Open a page

When you visit a supported article, Skysquare identifies the page and queries its continuously synchronized public-context index.

Rather than searching the live social network every time, Skysquare maintains an index of public Bluesky conversation connected to articles across thousands of publishers. That index stays synchronized with the AT Protocol as public conversation evolves.

2. See the conversation in context

When relevant discussion exists, Skysquare opens a sidebar alongside the article.

You can immediately see:

who shared the article
what they wrote
how the conversation developed
which passages people quoted directly

Quoted passages can be highlighted inline, making it easier to understand exactly what people are responding to.

3. Explore the discussion

Read the conversation from different perspectives.

Sort by recency or engagement. Follow discussion from a particular author. Filter by people you follow or your Bluesky lists. Discover related reporting through the people already participating in the conversation.

Instead of separating reading from discussion, Skysquare reconnects them.

A different model of public conversation

The source remains central

Most social platforms begin with a feed.

Skysquare begins with the page you intentionally chose to read.

Rather than asking you to leave the source for discussion, it brings relevant public conversation back to the source itself.

Commentary becomes easier to understand

A shared link tells you very little.

A quotation tells you what someone actually found important.

By connecting quoted passages to the original text, Skysquare makes public discourse easier to interpret. You can see whether people are responding to evidence, a particular claim, a framing decision, or a single sentence.

Discovery follows attention

The people reading an article often know where to go next.

Skysquare helps you discover related reporting, authors, and publications through the paths already forming around the work you’re reading.

Built on the open web

Skysquare is not a social network.

It is a reading layer built on top of one.

Public conversation remains on the AT Protocol. Skysquare continuously synchronizes with that public conversation and reconnects it to the source material that inspired it.

When public posts are created, edited, deleted, or their visibility changes according to the protocol, Skysquare is designed to reflect those changes rather than maintain its own independent version of the conversation.

The protocol determines what is public.

Skysquare’s role is to organize those public relationships—not redefine them.

At a high level:

Public AT Protocol repositories
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Continuous protocol synchronization
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Skysquare’s public-context index
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The article in your browser
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Sidebar discussion and inline highlights

The extension handles the reading experience—matching quoted passages, rendering highlights, and presenting relevant discussion beside the page you’re already reading.

The infrastructure stays in the background.

Your account and your control

You never give Skysquare your Bluesky password.

When you choose to sign in, authentication happens through Bluesky’s OAuth flow. You approve access through Bluesky itself.

Signing in unlocks personalized ways to explore public conversation, including views based on your follows and Bluesky lists.

Skysquare is built around public conversation and source-based reading.

It is not designed to replace Bluesky, collect private messages, or create another closed social platform.

For details about how information is handled, see the Privacy Policy.

Who Skysquare is for

Skysquare is for people who care about the relationship between ideas and the conversations they produce.

Journalists following the life of a story after publication.
Researchers tracing discussion back to evidence.
Analysts studying how information spreads.
Writers understanding how readers interpret their work.
Readers who would rather follow ideas than feeds.

A better way to navigate public discourse

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

It needs better ways to reconnect public conversation to the reporting, research, evidence, and arguments that gave rise to it.

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

Learn about Skysquare