[6] The name Misskey comes from the lyrics of Brain Diver, a song by the Japanese singer May'n.

[7] Misskey was initially developed as a BBS-style internet forum by high school student Eiji Shinoda in 2014.

[8] After introducing a timeline feature, Misskey gained popularity as the microblogging platform it is today.

[citation needed] In 2018, Misskey added support for ActivityPub, becoming a federated social media platform.

[12] In July 2023, Twitter introduced extreme restrictions on their API in order to combat scraping from bots.

[13][14] In response to this trend, Skeb, a platform for sharing art, announced on July 14, 2023 that it would sponsor the Misskey development team.

[19] Misskey comes with multiple timelines to sort through the notes that an instance has available, and are displayed in reverse chronological order.