How to Schedule Posts on Bluesky

With Statuz

A free CLI for Bluesky, X, Mastodon, LinkedIn and Reddit. Bluesky needs no developer app.

Connect

npm i -g statuz-cli
statuz accounts connect --platform bluesky
statuz start

You sign in on Bluesky's own page. On your own PDS: add --server with your handle (--server alice.example.com) or your PDS URL. The daemon (statuz start) sends scheduled posts.

Schedule a post

statuz posts create --text "Launching our public roadmap Friday" --to bluesky --at "thu 9am"

--at takes ISO times or words like "tomorrow 8:30". See Scheduling.

Links, @mentions and #hashtags become clickable, and the first link gets a preview card.

With an image and alt text

statuz media add --path ./roadmap.png --alt "Roadmap: three themes for Q4"
statuz posts create --text "Here's the plan" --media <media id> --to bluesky --at "fri 10am"

Up to 4 images (2 MB each) or one video.

Threads

statuz posts create --to bluesky --at "mon 9am" \
  --text "1/ We moved our team from Slack to async docs." \
  --text "2/ Meetings dropped by half." \
  --text "3/ Decisions got slower at first, then faster."

Each post is checked against Bluesky's 300 characters before saving. Too long? Split it with the thread splitter.

Several accounts

statuz posts create --text "New episode" --to @studio.bsky.social --to @me.bsky.social
statuz accounts default --account @me.bsky.social

default picks which account --to bluesky means.

Cross-posting

Add --to x --to mastodon --to linkedin. See the cross-posting guide.

Let an agent do it

claude mcp add statuz -- statuz mcp

Turn this changelog into a Bluesky thread and schedule it for 9am tomorrow.

Other agents.

When to post on Bluesky

• Weekday mornings, 8–10am in your followers' time zone.
• Early evening, 6–9pm.
• Following is chronological, so a post's first hour matters most.
• Custom feeds pick posts up later; hashtags help them find you.

Best practices

• Write for Bluesky: casual, shorter, fewer hashtags than X.
• Add alt text to every image.
• Use one or two hashtags that a feed or community already follows.
• Reply to people. Bluesky rewards conversation more than broadcasting.

Troubleshooting

• Didn't publish: statuz status, then statuz accounts check. Retry with statuz posts publish --id <id>.
• Wrong time: statuz config set --key timezone --value Europe/Berlin, or --timezone per post.
• Image rejected: keep it under 2 MB.

Start with the quick start.