diff --git a/app/Services/Social/BlueskyAnalytics.php b/app/Services/Social/BlueskyAnalytics.php
index cdb309ff..70eb2960 100644
--- a/app/Services/Social/BlueskyAnalytics.php
+++ b/app/Services/Social/BlueskyAnalytics.php
@@ -20,13 +20,16 @@ public function fetchPostMetrics(PostPlatform $postPlatform): array
             return ['unsupported' => true, 'reason' => 'missing_post_id'];
         }
 
-        $service = data_get($account->meta, 'service', 'https://bsky.social');
         $did = $account->platform_user_id;
         $atUri = "at://{$did}/app.bsky.feed.post/{$postPlatform->platform_post_id}";
 
-        // Public AppView API: no auth required for reading post counts.
+        // Read counts (likes, reposts, replies, quotes) live on the AT
+        // Protocol AppView, not the PDS. The user's PDS requires Bearer auth
+        // for this endpoint; the public AppView does not.
+        $appView = (string) config('trypost.platforms.bluesky.public_appview');
+
         $response = $this->socialHttp()
-            ->get("{$service}/xrpc/app.bsky.feed.getPosts", [
+            ->get("{$appView}/xrpc/app.bsky.feed.getPosts", [
                 'uris' => [$atUri],
             ]);
 
diff --git a/app/Services/Social/MastodonAnalytics.php b/app/Services/Social/MastodonAnalytics.php
index 3b176913..a7348f1c 100644
--- a/app/Services/Social/MastodonAnalytics.php
+++ b/app/Services/Social/MastodonAnalytics.php
@@ -22,8 +22,10 @@ public function fetchPostMetrics(PostPlatform $postPlatform): array
 
         $instance = data_get($account->meta, 'instance', 'https://mastodon.social');
 
+        // Public posts: no auth needed. Our token only requests write scopes
+        // (read:accounts + write:statuses + write:media), so attaching the
+        // Bearer would 403 with "outside the authorized scopes".
         $response = $this->socialHttp()
-            ->withToken($account->access_token)
             ->get("{$instance}/api/v1/statuses/{$postPlatform->platform_post_id}");
 
         if ($response->failed()) {
diff --git a/config/trypost.php b/config/trypost.php
index df4ff9e2..c0606acd 100644
--- a/config/trypost.php
+++ b/config/trypost.php
@@ -87,6 +87,7 @@
         ],
         'bluesky' => [
             'enabled' => env('BLUESKY_ENABLED', true),
+            'public_appview' => env('BLUESKY_PUBLIC_APPVIEW', 'https://public.api.bsky.app'),
         ],
         'mastodon' => [
             'enabled' => env('MASTODON_ENABLED', true),