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Yeah so there's basically just that one ;)

You don't need to follow anyone (or even have an account) to scrape content… Someone following a huge amount of accounts usually wants to get a lot of followers quickly this way through follow-backs.

It's not coming, it never went away… As I understand it, the "business layer" with all the logic is above the data later, shared by the Postgres and Scylla versions, and the data layer just makes queries to the database. I think they are using the Postgres version locally for development.

It was open source (except the Scylla database layer) from the beginning, AFAIK - that blog post just says that they haven't set it up yet, because that's the hardest part to run

You didn't specify what kind of federated servers you were thinking about

They want to add some optional subscriptions in near future (a la Discord), and more long term they want to have some way of creators earning money from their followers and Bluesky getting a commission from that.

MAU is 12M+: https://bskycharts.edavis.dev/edavis.dev/bskycharts.edavis.d...

Not sure when that was, but there's significantly more dev stuff now since around November, e.g. the iOS devs I knew from Twitter showed up there now and are posting regularly (including dev stuff), while before last autumn it was hard to find any of them there.

> If Google announced that they were going to ingest all Mastodon content and post it in a new Google Groups kind of thing, they'd be pretty understandably upset about that, too.

Except that's not what the bridge does, at all. It only follows you on someone's behalf when someone on Bluesky specifically requests to follow you through the bridge.

They absolutely did, which is why the project was started sometime in 2021 I think, and they only got to where they are now...

The response to the first line was contained in the "What" because I was speechless

Yikes :| Yeah so luckily I've never come across those...

Yeah, I strongly dislike this blocking culture there, because blocking also affects the other person's experience on the site - they won't be able to follow threads where you're involved. There's no reason to not use muting instead if you just want to get someone out of your view, except if you do it out of spite.

… no? It was very usable before, it's much less usable now.

Get a short domain somewhere and use it as the handle, custom handles are cooler anyway :)

There is an official mobile app for iOS and Android, on iOS there are also a few third party ones, not sure about Android.

Yup, exactly for this. There is a lot of NSFW stuff on Bluesky…

What

(not an American, been to the US once for 3 weeks)

Personally, I haven't really seen any "Nazis" on Twitter that I keep hearing about (though that probably depends on the definition), I'm just excited about Bluesky because it has an open API that's not controlled by one dumb guy who can shut down whole businesses like Tapbots with a flip of a switch or decide that $100 per month is a fair price for "hobbyists" to use it... but I guess I'm probably an outlier.

Skeet is how posts are unofficially called on Bluesky, from sky + tweet ;)

It is based on Chromium, but they're disabling a crazy amount of things in it to make sure nothing privacy-invasive stays in: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Deviations-from-...

The funny thing is, they were doing just fine for years with just their own money. Now that they have sooo much more money, they suddenly can't afford separate developers for different platforms... they should be able to hire 10x more people now.

Or you could have just kept the existing AppKit version and update it to work with the Rust core?…

They didn't really, that's a common misconception: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth_of_the_flat_Earth

I don't know if I want a small or a big one though, and I can't just go to an Apple Store to try both on... As soon as I have a chance of checking how they feel on my wrist, I'll think about ordering them through some unofficial channels.

I know who isn't buying it - anyone like me who doesn't live in one of those lucky 16 countries... It's still not available globally and it's not clear when it will be, so either they have a terrible supply of them, or there's still quite a lot of demand in the countries where it's being sold.

You might find this useful: http://mackuba.eu/2015/03/17/accessing-user-location-data-in... :)

The thing I don't understand is that for me, Twitter and Facebook aren't a competition for blogs and RSS. They're different things and they're complementary.

Twitter and Facebook are for posting links to things you've found or broadcasting short messages up to a few sentences. Twitter is for doing those things publicly, Facebook is for doing those things within the circle of your friends.

Blogs (and RSS) are for posting longer pieces of text, articles and such things. When you want to post an article, you don't put it on Twitter (for obvious reasons) or Facebook (because it limits your audience), you put it on your blog (self-hosted or on a service like Blogger or Wordpress) and you post links to it to Twitter and/or Facebook. And when you want to invite your friends to a movie, you don't post that to your blog, you post that on Facebook.

So I'm not worried that Twitter and Facebook don't have RSS feeds - I wouldn't even want to see my friends' FB posts when I'm reading longer articles in my RSS reader. And I'm not worried about Facebook killing blogs and RSS - yes, most people post stuff on Facebook and not on their blogs, but that's because most people don't write anything that would resemble an article.

(I do agree though that Twitter should have some open API for getting someone's public tweets in a machine-readable form, but it doesn't have to be RSS, JSON is just fine.)

Wow, are you serious? I knew the US approach to these things is weird but this is shocking. How can you fire someone for briefly looking at something they happened to find on the web? You never know what you can find on the web and not everything is labeled, so you can always find something by accident.

There's a big difference between spending hours at work looking through porn and reading one article which happens to have one nude drawing at the bottom. I find it hard to believe that someone leading a big company in the US can not realize that.