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brendan @schlage.town · 4h

Great! Reach out if you have any q's. Sorry it's totally confusion on our end & will soon clarify / better merge the different parts of the product :)

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brendan @schlage.town · 5h

See my reply here, no need to add manually, just need to make a publication & add posts there instead. Sorry for the confusion!

brendan @schlage.town · 9h

Hi Aaron, cool to see! I'm one of the @leaflet.pub creators — FYI the one-off docs (like this) are separate from our 'publications' (& not yet on atproto); you prob want the latter for a blog!

(high priority for us to fix so you can publish single docs to a publication or as one-offs to atproto)

brendan @schlage.town · 5h

Separate issue (see my other reply) but agree with this too! We're doing some new things with /discover & reader view, will try to incorporate author info along with that.

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brendan @schlage.town · 5h

Yes, we do have this for blogs (posts have date, author w/ link to their bsky, and link to blog homepage) but this one's a standalone doc - I pinged Aaron to see if he can do as a publication instead (unfortunate confusing thing on our end we need to solve soon!)

brendan @schlage.town · 9h

Hi Aaron, cool to see! I'm one of the @leaflet.pub creators — FYI the one-off docs (like this) are separate from our 'publications' (& not yet on atproto); you prob want the latter for a blog!

(high priority for us to fix so you can publish single docs to a publication or as one-offs to atproto)

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brendan @schlage.town · 9h

hmmm! sounds like maybe you will though 🤔😂

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brendan @schlage.town · 9h

looks extra broken rn but in my experience it's been partially broken (i.e. returning some results but randomly missing things that match a query) for a long time

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brendan @schlage.town · 9h

For now: you can make a new publication, copy this in as a new post there, and hit publish

From the publication you can add drafts for further posts (drafts are also not public on atproto til published). Lmk any questions!

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brendan @schlage.town · 9h

Hi Aaron, cool to see! I'm one of the @leaflet.pub creators — FYI the one-off docs (like this) are separate from our 'publications' (& not yet on atproto); you prob want the latter for a blog!

(high priority for us to fix so you can publish single docs to a publication or as one-offs to atproto)

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jared @awarm.space · 19h

People not platforms, praxis over posting

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brendan @schlage.town · 1d

Thanks! Will keep in mind, got some other stuff to get squared away first but hope to explore more soon :)

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brendan @schlage.town · 2d

Yep feed for Leaflet's blog at lab.leaflet.pub

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brendan @schlage.town · 2d

Oh cool, nice to include the markdown directly. We have RSS support now, see here (and someone recently added /atom and /json as well) but I'm sure we can improve, open to suggestions or further PRs here!

lab.leaflet.pub/rss

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jared @awarm.space · 2d

should we add a lexicon for externally published posts to leaflet. basically an atproto based rss alternative, but will make it so your posts on a blog published anyhow can be subscribed to, and will turn up in our upcoming reader view.

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brendan @schlage.town · 2d

Good thread from Dave in the replies here! Cool possibilities to explore around longform publishing + the open social web.

Lots for Leaflet to play with here! From personalized feeds based around your interests & social graph, to ways of interoperating with other tools & platforms…

Dave Winer @scripting.com · 4d

How about a timeline of leaflet documents?

Based on Bluesky identity, follows.

Show us what a fat social network looks like.

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brendan @schlage.town · 2d

Thanks Dave, appreciate the context. Excited by the potential for longform publishing social network on atproto.

Agree re: Markdown as good common denominator; we're now figuring out Markdown interop for Leaflet.

Things like timeline & discovery too, both w/ Bluesky + ultimately building our own.

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brendan @schlage.town · 2d

btw, when I hit the docs site I feel like I want "get started" to be like a high level overview / FAQ before the actual *start streaming*

e.g. there's not like a recorded video library yet right? but I guess I could just record locally + add to youtube…useful to have that spelled out though!

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brendan @schlage.town · 2d

Ooh awesome may have to try similar…or a reading session w/ multiple participants could be fun. Or maybe do like Leaflet office hours or something! Will think more about possible experiments :)

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brendan @schlage.town · 2d

problem: too much scrolling / reading bullshit-of-the-hour & not enough real nourishing conversational posting

solution: make me post something thoughtful & original before I'm allowed to read — then show me high signal new posts to reply to — and only then, allow me to scroll my feeds lol

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brendan @schlage.town · 3d

Amazing! I don't know how we'll play with @leaflet.pub x @stream.place collab *yet*…but I'm sure we'll think of something! Hmm maybe like live readings of published posts haha :)

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natalie @natalie.sh · 3d

there are 7 people currently live on stream.place 👀

brendan @schlage.town · 3d

I saw a blog post recently say like "atproto's cool in theory but there aren't even any other apps that aren't just bsky forks…"

…meanwhile like a dozen are blogging on @leaflet.pub alone :P

tbf many are just starting to see traction in recent months, but kinda the point: we're *very* early here!

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brendan @schlage.town · 3d

Yeah a world of difference between like relevant replies with collaborative potential (we obv love to see things like other apps doing cool stuff w/ leaflet!) and…what you described haha

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brendan @schlage.town · 3d

Spent some time recently catching up on the archives for the @blackskyweb.xyz blog, The Algo Rhythm (great name btw!)

May come as no surprise but it's *really* good & has some great lore on early Bluesky + the origins of Blacksky, glad to have this documented, thx for writing @rude1.blacksky.team!

The Algo Rhythm by Blacksky

A blog about building Blacksky, promoting intercommunalism, and decentralized trust & safety work.

blog.blacksky.community

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brendan @schlage.town · 3d

Yep! In a sense more a social dependency than a technical one; rn almost all ppl with atproto accounts are primarily Bluesky users & it's the best place for global discovery & conversation

But we definitely plan to do these kinds of things (reader view / feeds / tags etc) directly in Leaflet!

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brendan @schlage.town · 3d

Yeah I think part of it is they were really strongly anchored on the bluesky / twitter-like social media experience, and partly it can be hard to find all the other cool atproto apps that exist! (But also in this case a bit more research would've been good)

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brendan @schlage.town · 3d

We hear ya, on our list soon to make it easier to publish markdown to Leaflet! I think we actually support just about all core markdown (need to add ordered lists) & should mostly work to paste in now, but we also want to add an endpoint or something :)

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