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Tyler Fisher
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Founder, euphonos.studio. Building @sill.social, a link collection tool for Bluesky and Mastodon. 🇺🇸 in 🇳🇱.

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rude1.blacksky.team
Bluesky runs an appview.
Blacksky runs an appview.

A complete appview is a several terabytes sized database of the >18 billion follows, likes and posts of all bsky users, ever and forever.

To run a different appview is to make a fork in bsky’s timeline.

One has new posts from Łink.
One doesn’t.
staging.blacksky.community Following kink. Follows you @spacelawshitpost.me 12.1K followers 2.1K following 62.5K posts Shitposts and Space Law. Blacksky Elder. Banned from Bluesky. Apex User. Profile: Link holding a baby on a playground sun. Banner: Black Charlie Brown with a kufi looking out of a window. Followed by Tarik Moody, Dr Abeba Birhane, and 67 others Posts Replies Media Videos Starter Packs 4 Pinned kink. @spacelawshitpost.me • 11/14/2024 Thanks for the follow (or profile lurk). I really value digital accessibility and accessibility in gener Here's a basic guide to make sure your so posting is more accessible and inclusive (h alt text, etc.).
January 18, 2026 at 11:35 AM
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christian.bsky.social
Have been using @sill.social for some time now. What a great way to catch up on popular links shared by folks i follow. Just turned on the daily digest feature today.

Highly recommend joining sill and linking your account here for the full experience.

Would gladly pay for this service.
January 18, 2026 at 8:44 AM
tylerjfisher.com
@dholms.at I would like to move @sill.social to a tap-based architecture, but it would take some experimentation with db structure for Sill's follow graph aggregation to be efficient. I don't want to get TBs of data in the wrong format. Is there a way to just get a week (or so) of data from tap?
January 17, 2026 at 2:31 PM
tylerjfisher.com
“I open up @sill.social every morning to find out what events and stories my friends and folks I follow on Bluesky and Mastodon have been sharing while I’ve been sleeping and have been otherwise unplugged.” Thanks to Mita for submitting to @theverge.com's Installer!

www.theverge.com/tech/863614/...
Our favorite cozy game is back
In this week’s Installer: Netflix action movies, Apple apps, and Game of Thrones.
www.theverge.com
January 17, 2026 at 1:13 PM
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danhon.com
I keep seeing it without a source link, so here it is:

January 16, 2026

MINNEAPOLIS LABOR UNION DELEGATION AND LOCAL REGIONAL LABOR BODIES ENDORSE JANUARY 23: DAY OF TRUTH AND FREEDOM
NO WORK, SCHOOL, OR SHOPPING

minneapolisunions.org/system/files...
January 16, 2026 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Stacie Balkaran — stacie@minneapolisunions.org / 971.291.9486 MINNEAPOLIS LABOR UNION DELEGATION AND LOCAL REGIONAL LABOR BODIES ENDORSE JANUARY 23: DAY OF TRUTH AND FREEDOM NO WORK, SCHOOL, OR SHOPPING MINNEAPOLIS – The Minneapolis Regional Labor Federation, AFL-CIO along with regional bodies throughout the state, including the Saint Paul Regional Labor Federation, the West Area Labor Council, the North East Area Labor Council and the East Central Labor Council, have joined in solidarity to endorse a powerful unified statewide action on January 23: Day of Truth and Freedom. The Minnesota labor movement is united against the violent ICE occupation of our beloved cities that has directly impacted union members, our workplaces and our families. Workers are essential for our communities to function. Since the ICE campaign of terror began, both immigrant and non-immigrant workers have feared for their safety when going to work, being at work, and coming home from work. Union members and our families are being illegally detained at alarming rates, with workplaces and schools facing increased challenges. Chelsie Glaubitz Gabiou, President of the Minneapolis Regional Labor Federation, AFL-CIO, shared why union federations are joining this call: “Working people, our schools and our communities are under attack. Union members are being detained commuting to and from work, tearing apart families. Parents are being forced to stay home, students held out of school, fearing for their lives, all while the employer class remains silent. Our labor federations are encouraging everyone to participate on January 23rd. It’s time for every single Minnesotan who loves this state and the notion of truth and freedom to raise their voices and deepen their solidarity for our neighbors and coworkers living under this federal occupation.”
January 16, 2026 at 11:40 PM
tylerjfisher.com
I'm very happy with how Sill's byline detection is working out. On big live blogs, you can see just how many resources newsrooms are putting towards these things. 26 contributors!
A Sill link card to the New York Times story: "Newly Released Records Detail Chaos During Fata ICE Shooting in Minneapolis". The link card lists 26 authors.
January 16, 2026 at 6:05 PM
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Appreciate the attention to Sill today. Here's something of a manifesto on the project. Stop doomscrolling. blog.euphonos.studio/3lyfwrx7zn222
January 16, 2026 at 5:47 PM
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joshuajfriedman.com
Does everyone know about @sill.social, the news aggregator that shows you the top links your Bluesky friends are sharing?

(It's like Nuzzel, which Twitter acquired, turned into its Top Articles feature, then buried.)
January 16, 2026 at 4:56 PM
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robinsonmeyer.bsky.social
One big reason I find myself favoring Bluesky over X now is that I can use Sill Social: sill.social
Sill
Sill streamlines your Bluesky and Mastodon feeds to give you a clear picture of what's happening.
sill.social
January 16, 2026 at 4:14 PM
tylerjfisher.com
Excited for this!
January 16, 2026 at 3:59 PM
tylerjfisher.com
The lesson, as always: keep telling people about the features you built, most people don't know about them.
January 15, 2026 at 6:52 PM
tylerjfisher.com
Did you know @sill.social has dense mode?
tylerjfisher.com Tyler Fisher @tylerjfisher.com · 3d
There is! Click "default" in the bottom left. (If on mobile, open the menu with the top left icon)
Sill's default web view, with an arrow pointing to the default layout switch. Sill's dense web view. The image preview is gone and the text is tighter.
January 15, 2026 at 6:44 PM
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robin.berjon.com
We're having an AT Proto gathering at FOSDEM, on the Friday right before, at 17h00. Come! It'll be nice and fun.
luma.com/jj7nths0
@proto @fosdem · Luma
The AT Protocol is an open, decentralized network for building social applications. https://atproto.com/ Start your FOSDEM with a convivial evening of casual…
luma.com
January 15, 2026 at 2:16 PM
tylerjfisher.com
fosdem? should i go to fosdem?
January 14, 2026 at 4:51 PM
tylerjfisher.com
Hello, @sill.social went down overnight. Sorry for the trouble, bringing things back online now.
January 14, 2026 at 10:25 AM
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freeourfeeds.com
Announcing @modalfoundation.bsky.social, a nonprofit making open social tech viable at scale. Modal will connect experts, strategists, builders and communities to create a human-centered internet. The foundation will oversee @freeourfeeds.com, @eurosky.social and more to come. modalfoundation.org
Modal Foundation
Supporting decentralized social tech and open standards to create trustworthy, public-interest social media alternatives and ensure access to vital information.
modalfoundation.org
January 12, 2026 at 4:13 PM
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werd.io
Are you in media or open tech? Interested in exploring the future together? Based in the UK or Europe, or willing to travel there? @protocolsforpublishers.com in London next month should be awesome - and the conversations are ever more important. I’d love to see you there.
Protocols for Publishers ✨ London
Join us in London on Feb 4-5, 2026
protocolsforpublishers.com
January 10, 2026 at 4:26 PM
tylerjfisher.com
Does anyone have any recent estimates on how big a full network backfill is? I'm interested in a lot of different lexicons but just knowing the size of bsky-only would be instructive.
January 9, 2026 at 1:02 PM
tylerjfisher.com
I did not know Twitter got rid of "Top Articles", but even more reason to use sill.social instead.
realsaadasad.bsky.social Saad Asad @realsaadasad.bsky.social · 11d
Thanks @tylerjfisher.com for @sill.social. Twitter appears to have entirely retired its 'Top Articles' link aggregation functionality. And without a reasonable cost API, this functionality is wiped out by the modern X.

I'm enjoying Sill as the alternative for bsky.
January 8, 2026 at 1:50 PM
tylerjfisher.com
@standard.site realizing that this really needs an author lexicon. Documents should be able to have multiple authors. Authors should have names and optionally a strong ref to an atproto identity.
January 7, 2026 at 12:07 PM
tylerjfisher.com
yeah buddy
A site.standard.publication record published to my PDS via a local WordPress install.
January 6, 2026 at 11:39 PM
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brianboyer.net
I can’t say if this still works but here’s how I got our Newspack site working in a local development environment a year ago: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
January 6, 2026 at 9:02 PM
tylerjfisher.com
it's been a minute for me, what's the state of the art with local wordpress dev? cc @benlk.com
January 6, 2026 at 6:35 PM
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@ joel embiid
January 6, 2026 at 4:44 PM
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juliekliegman.com
The FINDING RENÉE RICHARDS cover and preorder links are here!!!!! 😍

A couple of suggested vendors:

@astoriabookshop.bsky.social: www.astoriabookshop.com/item/1sM1NJw...

@bookshop.org: bookshop.org/p/books/find...
The book cover for Finding Renée Richards: The Groundbreaking Story of Tennis’s Trans Pioneer, by Julie Kliegman. The cover features those words on top of an old black and white photo of Renée Richards.
January 6, 2026 at 4:03 PM