Curated Resource ( ? )
Why RichText facets in Bluesky
Curated:
20/02/2026 from
www.pfrazee.com/blog/why-facets
my notes ( ? )
Good explanation from one of Bluesky's engineers about one of the choices they made - to use markdown or to use something called richtext facets?
He first sets out the problems with markdown before explaining how rich text facets work:
{
text: "Hello @bob.com",
facets: [
{feature: "mention", index: {start: 6, end: 14}}
] }
"If there's a facet-type your client doesn't understand, it's just ignored and the original text carries through... display "@bob.com" as normal text ... no big deal." Moreover you can use Markdown: "run the parse step before publishing and turn the results into these facets."
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