Bluesky now lets you hide reposts from that annoying person you follow
The repost-muting feature everyone's been asking for is real — it just isn't quite where you'd expect to find it yet.
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August 10, 2026 · 4 min read · Synthesized from reporting by The Verge · How this works
Everyone follows that one person. The one whose original posts are great but whose feed is 90 percent reposts of things you never asked to see. Bluesky users have wanted a fix for this for years, and now there's finally a way to get one — though not exactly where the platform's own settings menu would suggest.
The fix has arrived, sort of
The demand for a per-user repost mute has been sitting in Bluesky's public GitHub tracker since at least October 2023, with a follow-up request filed in December 2024 asking for the same thing. Both threads remain open. That's notable, because it means Bluesky's own engineering team has not yet shipped a native toggle inside the app itself.
Extensions are doing the work instead
What has shipped is a pair of third-party browser extensions — Hide Reposts for Bluesky on the Chrome Web Store and Bluesky Repost Hider on Firefox's add-on store — that inject the missing control directly into bsky.app. Both let you keep following someone for their original posts while filtering out everything they reshare, without unfollowing them entirely. The Firefox version works by adding a username to a personal block list; the Chrome version builds a one-click toggle straight into the timeline interface.
"The most-requested repost-muting feature on Bluesky's GitHub still has no official fix — but a browser extension already does the job."
Why the mix-up matters
It's an easy mistake to make: Bluesky has been shipping real anti-clutter and anti-toxicity tools at a steady pace, including reply-hiding and priority notification filters introduced back in August 2024. Against that backdrop, a native "Hide reposts in feeds" option tucked into a profile's three-dot menu sounds entirely plausible — X already has a near-identical toggle. But the open GitHub issues make clear the feature hasn't actually landed inside Bluesky's own app yet, and the functionality currently lives in unofficial extensions built by users, not the company.
What's next for cluttered feeds
Bluesky has said a separate beta feature is coming that automatically numbers posts within long threads, a smaller but genuinely native quality-of-life fix for anyone trying to follow a sprawling conversation. Whether the company folds the community's repost-muting extensions into an official setting remains an open question. Given how long the request has sat in the queue, and how much cleaner it could make the Following feed for power users, it looks like one of the more obvious next moves — if Bluesky decides to prioritize it.
For now, anyone drowning in a single prolific reposter's activity has a real, working solution — it just requires a trip to a browser extension store rather than a settings menu. If Bluesky does eventually build this natively, expect it to borrow heavily from what its own users already built first.
Editorial Note
The research confirms the technical details about browser extensions and GitHub history, but definitively contradicts the article's headline claim that 'Bluesky now lets you hide reposts.' The feature is entirely unofficial and third-party—not native to Bluesky. The article's body correctly reports this discrepancy, but the headline and summary are misleading about the source and status of the functionality.
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Source 3 and Source 6 (GitHub issues) show this remains an open feature request since at least October 2023 with no official implementation. The article's body explicitly states: 'Bluesky's own engineering team has not yet shipped a native toggle inside the app itself.' The functionality exists only in third-party extensions.
Source 1 directly confirms the Chrome extension exists and describes its functionality of adding a 'Hide Reposts' control inside bsky.app.
Source 2 directly confirms the Firefox extension exists and describes how users add usernames to a block list to filter reposts.
Source 6 shows the original feature request opened October 6, 2023, and Source 3 shows a follow-up request opened December 3, 2024, with both remaining open.
Source 4 from Bluesky's official blog dated August 28, 2024 confirms these anti-toxicity features, including priority notification filters and reply-hiding functionality.
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