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Firesky – The Bluesky Firehose

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Would be cool to hook this up into a Bluesky network graph like [0] and pulse the node every time someone posts. Some interesting patterns might emerge.

[0] https://bsky.jazco.dev/

This is amazing & will obviously never last. :/

This is like the early days of Twitter all over.

It will.

I feel like this unfiltered format is going to make any Twitter-like site look awful. But having said that, looking at this, I don't have any desire to get an account on bluesky. There's still lots of content/people like this on Twitter.

And there’s no way to get to the post to share it with others. It feels like an insiders club, like Facebook when it first started, except you can go to any other social network and it actually works. I think blue sky is going to end up like hello. A very late attempt at reinnovating an existing solution.

The biggest “killer feature” is also its biggest detractment. The existing cool kids are already invited and building their base. Little people like you and me (regardless of our successes and personal prestige) are still excluded. I will continue to regard this as just another echo chamber

What exactly am I looking at?

All new Bluesky posts as they come in real-time.

If FB did this then there would be an outcry over privacy issues.

There's no private accounts, private posts or direct messages on Bluesky (yet).

All the tweets -er, bleets - posted on Bluesky in real time.

Skeets

Bleats

Skeets

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/27/23701551/bluesky-skeets-n...

Circled i in the top left corner is clickable:

"What is this?

The new social app Bluesky makes all of its data available over the public AT protocol.

This web app republishes every single new post/reply from the Bluesky firehose in real-time – useful for observing the current mood, monitoring for key words or phrases, or discovering something new.

Created and maintained by John Spurlock (@johnspurlock.com on Bluesky).

Made with Deno + Denoflare, hosted on Cloudflare Workers."

Neat. Not sure what negatives people are seeing? Looks like people communicating to me. Mostly English, but some Japanese, Arabic, Chinese, Korean, and Portuguese too, that's interesting.

This looks so cool! Are there any resources on how to build your own systems to post to the protocol, and read from it? Would be so useful as a generalized automated events messenger service

https://atproto.com/guides/overview is a good start, but bit overwhelming when you get started.

https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto-ecosystem provides a good overview of the current ecosystem. If you wanna see how something is done, best to find another project already doing it and get inspired from them.

Looks like a good use case for Phoenix Liveview

Or literally anything that can interactively add and remove elements from a stream. Seems like WebSocket + vanilla JS DOM operations is good enough.

Presumably this can't be a complete firehose — just the data known to a finite list of popular instances.

Yes, everything. There is only one instance as of now.

The activity of bluesky is highly variable, seems to be very US based right now at least.

I thought BlueSky was a protocol, not just a service. How can there be only one instance of a protocol?

Bluesky is the app/one UI. AT Protocol is the protocol. Currently there is only one widely used implementation of the protocol.

Probably because they're still working out exactly how federation will be added to the protocol.

This is correct. https://blueskyweb.xyz/blog/5-5-2023-federation-architecture

Would love to see the code behind this. Side note, I'll continue to ask, if anyone has an invite drop it here!

I have come to despise and be really tired of timeline firehoses. If you are spending precious brain cells to "reinvent" social, consider something more adapted to the animal you want to help communicate digitally. Show me a firehose that has taken onboard the bitter lessons of decades of failed social media.

I like firehoses for doing network diagrams, albeit at the API level. In UI terms and endlessly scrolling feed is the equivalent of a log fire video - or a dumpster fire, depending on your perspective.

Technically you can mold firehoses into other metaphors at the UI level (whether deterministically or algorithmically). And vice versa, any system that processes data in real time can be shown as a firehose.

But as they say, biases in technology creep in so early on, they are not even considered as such. If your main mental model for online communication is an amorphous agitating mass of delocalized entities that exchange tiny bits of information then this is what you are going to build and this is what you are going to get.

i love this. gives me a peek into the bluesky world while waiting for an invite.

More of a trickle

Could someone please give me a blue sky invite? My email is in the book.

I would also happily accept an invite if provided by any kind person.

Looks like a lot of spam.

What is it?

I only see a boring gray page.

firesky.tv dev here - do you have javascript enabled?

If so, you should see everything posted to Bluesky in one view, like a massive chatroom.

Use the filter button to monitor for keywords/accounts etc. To me, this is probably the more long-term useful and non-brain-destroying use of the site.

Very much inspired by Twitter in the early days

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