In this video I want to talk about blue Sky.
If you're not familiar with what blue Sky is, essentially it's a social media app.
Basically the same as what Twitter used to be, or X as what it's called now.
And that's no surprise because the person that started Twitter, Jack Dorsey, went on to make blue
Sky after he sold Twitter.
Now, blue Sky is a decentralized social media app.
Again, it's much like the old Twitter and you can find that blue Sky app.
Now, I took a while to make this video because one.
It was in beta for a long time and I was able to get in the beta, but there weren't a lot of people
in at the time.
Now that, um, X essentially collapsed in on itself, a lot of people left X, including prominent
people and, um, regular users and they a lot of them came over to blue Sky, which is pretty great.
Unfortunately, a lot of, uh, internet trolls and that also came over with them because of course,
if it's a popular social media popular forum, of course, uh, internet trolls and other bots and whatnot
are going to come over too.
So that's why it's important to actually go over blue sky in terms of open source intelligence and reconnaissance.
So I have a public figure up here, uh, Jeff Gerstmann and essentially a lot of the investigation techniques
that we're going to use is going to be the same as any other social media.
So pulling up the page, we we have our blue Sky app here, and I'm going to start by a particular person.
So in this case we have Jeff Gerstmann.
So I have a full name.
It's not real.
It's not a handle.
So I could take this name.
I could feed it into a people search and find out more about this person.
I could see their blue sky handle at Jeff gerstmann.com.
I could take that URL.
I can punch it into into a browser, see where that takes me.
I could do a who is on that.
I could take that at Jeff Gerstmann and throw it into something like Sherlock or Hohe and see if that
username is used elsewhere, tracking that down.
I could also take a look at the banner here.
And the nice thing about blue Sky is I could right click on here.
I could save these images and of course any sort of images.
We want to grab the images and analyze it, see what the content is on there.
I can see the number of followers he has, the number of people that he's following and the number of
posts that he has.
And of course, I'm going to go through.
If I'm doing an investigation of this particular person, I'm going to go through, take a look at who
he's following, see if he made comments on those particular pages of other people.
Take a look at who's following them if there's a pattern to that.
What people are posting about them.
And of course go through his posts.
So going through in order here we have the the little byline or quote that people have.
And we can go through here, see if there's additional information.
He has a Patreon here.
So I of course, I'm going to go to the Patreon and start pulling as much information as I can.
Was to Patreon.
When was it started?
What are the goals?
What type of things do you get, get for it, etc. etc. and I'm going to go through, start looking
at all the different posts that they've made and this is a lot of posts is 2.4 thousand posts.
So of course this is going to take a while, but go through, find the relevant posts, start gathering
information again, see who commented, what are the comments, who reshared it?
Who liked the pose and so on and so forth.
Now other things we could do are we could click on search here.
Actually let me go back one here.
Um, up here, if I want to make it shorter I can look at posts.
I can click on replies or replies.
He has.
And of course I can click on media and it'll take me straight to the different media that they've posted.
So another thing I could do is go to search here, and I could take a look at what's trending.
If there's a trending topic topic that I want to look into, I could type that in here and potentially
find out more posts about that.
Currently.
At the time of this recording, it is in beta.
I also can see what's recommended and blue Sky uses the hashtag just like Twitter or text uses.
So I could type in hashtag whatever and potentially find other hashtags with that.
I could also find suggested accounts.
I can discover new feeds in here, which is all pretty handy.
And if I type in something like Q anon.
For example, I can see different information about that.
Um, Q and on uh.
Schoolboy Q anon Q in on sense blue sky.
ET cetera, et cetera.
Now let's go back here.
And other things we could do.
Or we can click on notifications.
Of course it will tell us what sort of notifications that we're getting.
Chats.
If you have different chats feeds.
Uh, I could do this will list all the feeds that I'm that I saved that I'm following.
I could do things like discover new feeds.
I can click on there and it'll give me different things that that it thinks I'm going to want science.
You could discover new feeds in here.
So what I did was I typed in Q in on.
And it gives me a couple feeds for QAnon.
So pretty useful if I, if I have a particular feed or a particular use for a feed that I want to start
discovering information on.
And again, we have different lists and other settings and so forth.
So again, it's uh, again, it's a lot of it's going to be much like the old, uh, Twitter some degree,
the current Twitter X for doing our investigation.
If find out when they started what their handle are, what collect the media, investigate their posts,
see who they're following, see who's following them, check their posts for relevant information that
links to each other, so on and so forth, and definitely make use of the feeds and the search options
in blue sky.
And again you can find that B Sky Dot app.
Thank you for watching.
I'll see you in the next video.