Invite your Messenger group to Bluesky
Leaving a Facebook Messenger group? FbZip Chat Archive lets you read your export offline, then invite the same people to Bluesky — create a Bluesky group chat and/or send personal invite DMs. Private chat history is not republished to Bluesky.
What this feature does (and does not do)
Does
Send a new invite message; create a Bluesky group; optional join link; map archive names → @handles you enter.
Does not
Auto-match Facebook names to Bluesky; import Messenger message history into Bluesky; work without a paid Bluesky licence.
Which licence do I need?
- Chat Archive Standard (~$69) — full offline archive only; no Bluesky invites.
- Bluesky Standard (~$5) — posts + invites (1 Bluesky account).
- FbZip Complete (~$89) — full chat archive + Agency posts + group invites (best value if you leave Meta entirely).
- Bluesky Agency (~$30) — posts + invites for up to 10 accounts (no full chat extract).
Purchase in /webv/ with the same email you use to sign in.
Step-by-step
- Build or open a chat archive — see Messenger chat archive guide (web extract or free Windows app).
- In the offline viewer, open the conversation (family group, friends, etc.).
- Click Invite to Bluesky in the thread toolbar.
- Your browser opens /webv/ → sign in if prompted → Invite chat to Bluesky page.
- Review the default invite message; set the Bluesky group name.
- For each archive participant name, enter their Bluesky handle (e.g.
name.bsky.social) — names from Meta are not auto-matched. - Choose delivery: Create group + DM each person (recommended), group only, or DMs only.
- Enter your Bluesky handle and App Password (with chat permissions). Use Dry run first.
- Click Send invites. Recipients accept the group invite or open your DM in the Bluesky app.
Delivery modes
- Create group + DM each person — Creates the Bluesky group, posts a welcome message with join link, and sends each person a personal invite DM.
- Create group only — Group + welcome post; no individual DMs.
- Direct message each person — Invite text in DMs only; no group.
Up to 49 invited members per group (besides you).
Privacy and support
- Only your invite text is sent — not years of Messenger messages.
- Do not paste App Passwords or full exports into support chat.
- If someone does not receive a DM, check Bluesky message requests, blocks, and whether they follow you (Bluesky chat rules vary).