Bom trabalho Brasil, você fez a escolha certa

(good job Brazil, you made the right choice)

🦋 Bluesky SF Meetup #3 🦋

I'm in town so of course I had to co-organize one! 😊

📍 The Commons
📆 May 27th, Saturday
🕕 6 PM - 9 PM

We have limited capacity, so please RSVP: https://lu.ma/bsky-sf-meetup-3

It honestly feels euphoric to experience a platform without a swarm of hate groups constantly hunting every post. I forgot what it was like 🙂

hello devs!! say hi to @atproto.com 👋

we’ll be using this account to share *your projects* that you’re building on top of atproto! the bluesky team also gets into some pretty interesting technical convos deep in the replies, and @atproto.com can broadcast that info further 🗣️

hey anil! there’s no blockchain. there’s a user recovery key for accounts, user data is stored in merkle trees, and this is hosted on servers. as if your social data were hosted in a git repo you could transfer from github to gitlab (between hosts)

“I feel myself becoming the fearless person I have dreamt of being. Have I arrived? No. But I'm constantly evolving and challenging myself to be unafraid to make mistakes.”

- Janelle Monae

Art on telephone pole.

Free advice to the top biskies: you want to add people closest to the exist network to maximize engagement. To do this, let *everyone* nominate folks to the waitlist/co-sign existing ones. Sort by number of requests and process the list.

Or take existing list and cluster by non-generic domain.

cosy discord for people to help each other write code for Bluesky's API https://discord.gg/ZwntSUDYnz

Good vibes: https://open.spotify.com/album/1i4H2BWn5piksHT9QkEpjq?si=2QPlOqKDQ-mzjLpoSnRMcg

talked to @jay.bsky.team about this app/protocol

“As the owner of a centralized site, he [Elon] is free to do that if he wants. But this is exactly why what we’re building is important” https://www.theverge.com/23686778/bluesky-ceo-jay-graber-interview-decentralized-social-media-twitter-mastodon

girls be like “i know a place” and take you to the bluesky meetup in dolores park

ty to @lishiyo.bsky.social @neall.org for organizing 🫶

Using @bsky.app api to spatialize the skyline. The feed data is used to prompt a summary from the in-world NPC “What’s on the skyline?”

Login is unified with the WP user system for sessions.

Can even ask her to shitpost for me.

yeah twitter ran a proposal process in 2021 and picked me to lead bluesky. so i spun it out as an independent company (not trusting in twitter's stability as an institution, which was the right call), and jack is on the board.

the main thing I'm excited about is that (afaik) anyone can build their own UI

in theory this is sorta possible with APIs for other platforms but twitter's API has made third-party clients nearly impossible for like a decade

Fun!

4. Huge focus on AT Protocol is on creating custom algorithms and moderation systems. When it's ready, people will be able to deploy new feed & user discovery algos same as making a new web service (if not easier). That's the major goal of the whole thing