August 12: When the NYT makes Trump sound like a reasonable candidate that a sane person might vote for, remember this day. | Continue reading
Can you believe Bluesky could have built their system on http and rss. If it really works, what a response to ActivityPub. We’d be years ahead of where we are now. Social web devs should check this out. | Continue reading
Paul Frazee thread where he explains Blue Sky's philosophy of formats and user data. Illuminating. He says in one msg that they could have used HTTP and RSS. I wish they had. Could've saved a lot of time and confusion. They still should do it. Huge potential adoption with devs. | Continue reading
Obama in 2009 had a chance: “People around the campaign were BEGGING him to keep the movement infrastructure alive and he scuttled it for a strategy of glazing of the biggest shitstains in the world.” Obama went for the money, not the people, and we lost. | Continue reading
I don't think you can claim to be part of the "social web" if you don't support links, btw. It's the most basic feature of the web. | Continue reading
Open question: What are the basic capabilities of a [Bluesky's PDS] explained in terms that would be understood by a person who has run web servers and worked with RSS and OPML. | Continue reading
It’d be nice if there were a toolkit for Bluesky that made it easy to embed in other server apps with established and different UIs. We’ve been stuck with the twitter model since 2006. | Continue reading
BlueSky has a 300 character limit, which is less than the other services I cross-post to. This will be a problem when we eventually get peering working across twitter-like systems. | Continue reading
The joy comes from finally being rid of the threat of Trump. | Continue reading
"You may think our art is awful, but for me it's been a revelation." | Continue reading
Paul Frazee, lead developer at Bluesky, rebuts Jack Dorsey, re moderation. | Continue reading
So this ticking time bomb was sitting there all the time the journalists were talking about how Biden is too old to win the election with Trump. Biden was never the issue, the issue was the freaking supreme freaking court. | Continue reading