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Jaxon Evans

@jaxonevans.bsky.social

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Tech founder of a small startup. 2.2m raised so far. Don't worry I also hate Tech right now. Developer of @boostblue.bsky.social Download: https://onelink.to/jaxon-boost-blue I post about my side projects, Flutter, F1, music, and books.

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Jaxon Evans @jaxonevans.bsky.social · Jun 4

Boost Blue is officially available on both the App Store and Google Play!

Boost Blue supports:
- Persisted reading position
- Repost muting by user
- Bookmarks
- Drafts
- Spoilers
- More to come!

This project has been a ton of fun, I hope you guys like it!

#sideproject #flutter #atproto

‎Boost Blue for Bluesky

‎Enhance Your Bluesky Experience! Boost Blue is an alternative client to the official Bluesky app to take your Bluesky experience to the next level. Preserved Feed Position - Always start where you...

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nooki @nooki.me · 18h

(1/4) I'm soft launching nooki.me to get some early traction and feedback on what to improve. Excited to see how this platform grows!

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Jaxon Evans @jaxonevans.bsky.social · 10h

Soft launch canceled, launch promoted by Bluesky CEO initiated.

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Galen Druke @galendruke.bsky.social · 13h

Rebranded!!!

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Andy Masley @andymasley.bsky.social · 17h

Every day I find a new way of trying to get across just how ridiculously fake the problem of AI water use is

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Boost Blue @boostblue.bsky.social · 15h

v2.1.2 is live!

This version introduces 2 new filters for the Following feed, as well as fixes a few bugs, most notably a bug with the image view.

Download: onelink.to/boost-blue

#buildinpublic #flutter #sideproject

A screenshot of Boost Blue showing new filters - hiding vertical videos and a photos filter.

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 18h

we have been working on this new polling aggregation website for a few months now, and are excited to share it with the world! plenty more features and polls to come.

FiftyPlusOne.news @fiftyplusone.news · 18h

new polls website just dropped fiftyplusone.news

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Danny K @dannykpolitics.bsky.social · 4d

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

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Jaxon Evans @jaxonevans.bsky.social · 1d

So say someone wanted to support the Blacksky App View, should that just be as simple as switching out the url?

#atproto

Jaxon Evans @jaxonevans.bsky.social · 1d

Idea Man by Paul Allen
Grade: B+

It was especially cool to hear about all of the projects he was involved in after Microsoft - most of which I was aware of, but didn’t know he was involved with.

Notably:
Spaceship 1
Museum of Pop Culture
Ticketmaster
espn.com

Also Allen > Gates

#booksky 💙📚💡

The Audible cover of Idea Man by Paul Allen

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

#WarRavagedPortland

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Jaxon Evans @jaxonevans.bsky.social · 2d

a cartoon character is talking into a microphone and the word money is on the screen

GIF from Tenor

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Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 2d

TL; DR
In the next 5 business days you should be able to go to Link's page on blacksky.community and see his posts and he'll be able to post but people using the bsky mobile apps won't see it.
After that we'll get Blacksky-only posts up.
After that we can talk about purging bsky mod tools
fin/11

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Jaxon Evans @jaxonevans.bsky.social · 2d

Did Jerry actually quit Bluesky as a bit?

(I refuse to believe literally a single thing this account does is genuine)

Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 4d

Good evening. "Jerry Chen" was a 27-month sociological experiment studying Poster's Madness conducted by Quinnipiac University. We are now complete with our study; thank you for your time.

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Jaxon Evans @jaxonevans.bsky.social · 2d

What would you be suing for exactly? You don't charge for your posts.

Also - why is this a question at the moment? Is there some indication that Bluesky is selling user data?

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Jaxon Evans @jaxonevans.bsky.social · 2d

That's great, but all of the AI companies are ignoring that and training with the data anyways, and courts are backing them up so far.

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Jaxon Evans @jaxonevans.bsky.social · 2d

I don’t understand this complaint at all. Special licensing isn’t necessary for model training. (I mean it should be, but it isn’t)

Anything posted online is fair game. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Kris Wilson @kriswilson.bsky.social · 2d

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Jaxon Evans @jaxonevans.bsky.social · 2d

People are allowed to post about things that aren’t he highest issue topic.

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Boost Blue @boostblue.bsky.social · 2d

Boost Blue's iPad update is live!!!

Download: onelink.to/boost-blue

#atproto #iPad #ios

Before and after:

A screenshot of the old Boost Blue version on iPad

A screenshot of the new Boost Blue version on iPad

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Jaxon Evans @jaxonevans.bsky.social · 2d

Some people definitely are complaining about this. The “any ai use is bad” crowd aren’t exactly rational.

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Jaxon Evans @jaxonevans.bsky.social · 2d

Maybe there’s some room for nuance between “legal death threat” and “violation of ToS for threatening/anti-social behavior”

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Jaxon Evans @jaxonevans.bsky.social · 2d

My app @boostblue.bsky.social does that, if your open to a 3rd party client!!

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Lee opposes funding Trump’s constitutional crime spree | ❌👑 @lkc2025.bsky.social · 2d

The truth is that our neighbors of both parties do NOT support political violence in growing numbers, despite recent faulty reports. It’s really important for people to hear that. It is hearing the false alternative that frightens people and makes them more open to violence.

Spread this widely.

G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 2d

Why most polls overstate support for political violence
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/most-polls...

Why most polls overstate support for political violence

Misperceptions about the popularity of violence increase public support for it — but you can help change that.

www.gelliottmorris.com

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Jaxon Evans @jaxonevans.bsky.social · 3d

Let’s bring some positively back here. Everyone share something good that happened this week:

We had friends over for a craft chocolate tasting night, and it was amazing. And chocolate is amazing. Absolutely blown away by the complexity in flavors you can get with just cacao and sugar.

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Jaxon Evans @jaxonevans.bsky.social · 2d

The “service already defined” is an unrelated bug, the app isn’t properly resetting on log out. A hard reset fixes it though. I’ll get that fixed.

But the app should work for you now. I don’t have a ton of users on custom PDS instances, so if you have any issues let me know and I’ll get them fixed!