How to Export and Back Up Your Bluesky Followers

Your Bluesky social graph is the part of your account you can't retype from memory. Posts you could live without; the 500 accounts you carefully followed over two years are the actual asset. Bluesky has no export button for it. Here's how to get your followers and follows into a JSON file you own - and how that file becomes an undo button, a migration tool, and a time machine.

Export your follower list in one click

1. Open Kaleidorabble and sync your handle (no login needed for this part).
2. Go to the Backup tab.
3. Click download. You get a single JSON file with your complete graph.

The file contains your followers and follows (handles, display names, DIDs - the permanent identifiers that survive handle changes), your relationship map (who's mutual, who's one-way), your accumulated unfollower history, and any bot scores and analysis you've run. It's plain JSON: readable in a text editor, greppable, yours.

What the backup is actually for

• An undo button. Backed up before a big cleanup? If you regret it, restore the file and Kaleidorabble offers to re-follow everyone you followed at backup time - automatically, at a throttled, human pace.
• Device moves. All Kaleidorabble data lives in your browser's LocalStorage. Restoring the file on a new machine (or after clearing site data) brings the whole graph and history back.
• A time machine. Keep a backup from March, sync today, and the diff answers "who unfollowed me since March?" - even though nobody was tracking in between.
• Plain-old ownership. DIDs are portable identifiers. Even if this tool vanished tomorrow, a JSON file of DIDs is enough for any future tool (or a few lines of script) to reconstruct your follows.

Why there's no server in this story

Most follower tools sync your graph to their database and your export is whatever they deign to give you. Kaleidorabble has no server side at all: the sync happens in your browser against Bluesky's public API, the data lives in LocalStorage, and the backup is a file handed directly to you. Nothing to breach, nothing to subscribe to, no one between you and your own graph.