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ftfishon Who owns your ATProto identity?

If that's the case, then I stand corrected, but a source for that claim would be helpful.

ftfishon Who owns your ATProto identity?

Bluesky has about 2-3 year runway, so, we'll see.

Source: Bluesky COO https://conference.publicspaces.net/en/session/growth-and-su... (somewhere towards the end in the Q&A section).

ftfishon Who owns your ATProto identity?

Never said that, though, plus provided sources. Just adding context for what the total number of users means.

ftfishon Who owns your ATProto identity?

mastodon.social has been around for a decade now, seems stable enough.

ftfishon Who owns your ATProto identity?

A chunk of these registered users are apparently "ghost accounts" hosted on a PDS on a trump.com subdomain.

https://bsky.app/profile/tyggero.cz/post/3moskpisnuc2t

Source: https://sifa.id/stats

Statement from Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/pfrazee.com/post/3mmp27wwnic2j

ftfishon Who owns your ATProto identity?

Source?

What I see here doesn't look good.

https://bluefacts.app/bluesky-user-growth

Never mind the pivot to reddit.

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/04/bluesky-twitter-rival-reddit...

ftfishon Turn an email subscription into a Mastodon bot

Hey, author here. Thank you @todsacerdoti for submitting this!

And to answer the question, this tutorial is part of a series about Pipedream, I've covered using APIs before.

But this is a good point and I will mention this as an alternative.

ftfishon Show HN: A Gentle Introduction to the Fediverse

We're getting there! https://fediverse.observer/stats

ftfishon Show HN: A Gentle Introduction to the Fediverse

Great question, and I'll let someone with deeper technical understanding answer this, but using Wikipedia as a reference (1), it looks like "fediverse" is a bit loosely defined, with parts of it not being fully compatible with all of the other networks (2).

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_software_and_pro...

ftfishon Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?

Thank you, I'll check these out!

ftfishon Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?

One super niche project I made recently lets you search through dialogue in public domain films:

https://public-domain-film-quote-search.stefanbohacek.dev

I made it so that I can quickly find vocal samples to use in music production.

ftfishon Show HN: Only one person can view this page at a time

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

ftfishon Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

https://simplesharingbuttons.com/

Despite the site being free and open source, people still send me a few bucks each month, and very nice thank-you emails. And there are at least 2-3 sites out there that I'm personally a fan of that used it.

ftfishon Ask HN: Who needs contributors?

https://github.com/botwiki/botwiki.org

Botwiki: an open catalog of friendly, useful, artistic online bots, and tools and tutorials that can help you make them.

ftfishon Offer HN: Free logo design for an open source project

Botwiki (botwiki.org) is an open-source catalog of "friendly, useful, artistic online bots", and tools and tutorials that can help you make them.

I started this project shortly before the recent hype around bots, and it focuses mostly on the "indie" side of bots and botmaking, with things like Monthly Bot Challenge (which is currently on hold, but resuming hopefully soon), badges (using Mozilla's Open Badges), and soon, botmaking workshops.

Project's GitHub page: https://github.com/botwiki/botwiki.org

ftfishon Ask HN: What are you currently building?

That would be great, see https://github.com/botwiki/botwiki.org/issues/35

Also, I only saw the title, not realizing the OP only asked about projects started in December O:-)

ftfishon Ask HN: What are you currently building?

https://botwiki.org - a "Wikipedia" of online bots

ftfishon A contest for making friendly online bots

Good point!

The tagline on the main page says:

"Botwiki.org is a site for showcasing friendly, useful, artistic online bots, and tools and tutorials that help you make them."

But if you just land on this page, you really have no idea what the site is for. Thanks, I'll update this!

ftfishon Show HN: A Slack community for (friendly) bot makers

Awesome, looking forward to seeing what you created :-)

ftfishon Ask HN : What side project are you working on?

http://www.botwiki.org -- an open-source collection of tutorials, articles, datasets and other resources for creating useful/interesting/artistic online bots.

ftfishon Ask HN: What project are you currently working on?

One ongoing project I have is http://simplesharingbuttons.com.

I've been meaning to do a complete rewrite, but I was at least able to do the most important, functional updates incrementally.

Lately I've been playing with (chat) bots. One fun experiment I made is https://twitter.com/bartleby_scrvnr/ .

I don't particularly care for many of the Twitter bots that are out there, but I found some interesting projects, like @congressedits, @YesYoureRacist or even @TheRiddlerBot or @mothgenerator. I'd like to explore more ideas in this area.

My next big project (in a very early stage) though is a forum -- with a _twist_ :-)

ftfishon Show HN: Detective (a “chat” game)

Thanks!

Unfortunately I am no longer able to add "robots" to the conversation -- see the updates on top of my article http://blog.fourtonfish.com/post/118690105220/detective-node...

ftfishon Show HN: Detective (a “chat” game)

Thanks!

Yeah, it's hard to make sure that people will really try to play the game "correctly", I can just give you guys a playground :-)

ftfishon Show HN: Leave a message for the next person who visits this page (pre-alpha)

Hey, thanks for the feedback!

I respectfully disagree and stand by my design decisions.

I've seen projects like the one posted to HN somewhat recently where the guy would accept any PR on a GitHub repo.

This way, you get to leave a message for only one single person in the world. (This also takes care of people posting terrible things on my own website :-)

Yes, while there's a significant traffic, the site is basically unusable, but at the same time this was inevitable if I wanted to let people know about this project.

I recommend saving the link and coming back when the crowd clears up :-)

ftfishon Windows 10: The Next Chapter [video]

"I could never manage the transition from Linux to MacOS"

I feel the same way. I recently started using a MacBook at work. It's a mid-2014 MacBook Pro w/Retina display and there is a lot I like about using it.

But it seems rather hostile to developers. The keyboard shortcuts don't make a lot of sense -- most of it really is just about what I'm used to, but for example ⌘+SHIFT+3/4 to take a screenshot? And the CTRL+SHIFT+POWER KEY combination to lock the screen is a very odd choice.

⌘+C and ⌘+V work on files/folders, but not ⌘+X?

I only had to setup MAMP here so far, but it wasn't quite as smooth as LAMP on my Ubuntu machine.

I am in the market for a new laptop -- I considered everything from Chromebooks to even getting my own MacBook. But I keep going back to a Ubuntu/Windows dual-boot setup. There are just too many little annoyances with OSX for me.

ftfishon Show HN: Redacted.js – Bookmarklets to Apply the Redacted Font on a Page

I want to write an article about using Trello without showing some private data. Basically I just wanted a quick way to hide text on a page before taking a screenshot -- and I don't want to install a plugin just for that.

Also, it's a nice font for mockups and this kind of works as a free CDN.

ftfishon HN. Let's share Twitter accounts

I don't really use it much, but https://twitter.com/fourtonfish

ftfishon Ask HN: What projects are you working on?

Thanks :)

ftfishon Ask HN: What projects are you working on?

1. I'm not sure about adding more JavaScript-based functionality.

The original idea was to create just the static code, but I got a few emails asking for something that could be reused without having to generate new code for each page (for example on a blog). I'll nevertheless save this for a future consideration.

2. This sounds interesting, I'll check this out.

Thanks for the suggestions; if you'd like to keep an eye on updates to the service, there are links to my blog and Twitter to follow on the site.

ftfishon Ask HN: What projects are you working on?

I really like the interface.

If you're interested, there's a link to a blog post on the bottom of the website with code for some extra social networking/bookmarking sites -- if you'd perhaps like to add support for those. (I didn't add those to the generator because of missing icons in the icon sets.)