Subscription Lists

How to limit who can read your feed with Subscriber Lists, or keep specific people out with a blocklist.

By default anyone on Bluesky can read your feed. But you might want to cultivate a community with a little privacy. With Subscriber Lists, you can! There are two kinds:

A Membership list: only the people on it can read your feed.
A Blocklist: the people on it can't read your feed.

This guide walks you through creating a list and attaching it to one of your feeds.

1. Create the list

Click Subscriber Lists in the sidebar.
Press Create a new list (or the + at the top right of the table).
Choose the List Type: Membership or Blocklist.
Give the list a Display Name.

2. Add some users

Under Included Users, press +, type a Bluesky handle in Username, and confirm. Repeat for everyone you want on the list, then press Create.

You can come back at any time: click a list on the Subscriber Lists page to add or remove people. The table shows each list's type, how many feeds use it and how many users are on it.

3. Add the list to a feed

Open the feed's page and click Feed Settings (the gear).
Under Access Control, find Subscriber Lists and press + ("Add a subscriber list").
Pick your list.

Membership lists show in green, blocklists in red. Press the × on a list to take it off the feed.

A list can be used on more than one feed. While it's attached to a feed you can't delete it; remove it from the feed first.

What readers see

When a feed has a Membership list, anyone who isn't on it, including people who aren't signed in, sees your Members Only Post instead of the feed. Set this under Access Control in Feed Settings: press the pencil next to Members Only Post and add one or more posts, for example one explaining how to join. If you don't set one, they won't see any posts.

When a feed has a Blocklist, people on it see your Banned Post instead of the feed. Set it the same way, next to Banned Post. If you don't set one, Graze shows a default post.

Subscriber Lists, Members Only Post and Banned Post are only available to the feed's owner, not to collaborators.

Patreon

If you run a Patreon, the Patreon section under Access Control lets you press Link Patreon, then add capabilities for Anonymous User, Authenticated User or Patreon Member (by tier). For example, you can stop people who aren't patrons from seeing the feed's posts, or turn off sponsored posts for your patrons.

All done!

That's all you have to do. Your feed now only shows to the people you've chosen.