I doubt it, but also there's probably no case law yet, so who knows
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I doubt it, but also there's probably no case law yet, so who knows
...did it work?
(Not that VCs are all dumb, or delusional, or malicious! Far from it. But still.)
It's VCs' job to predict the future in all sorts of directions, and be extremely confident about those predictions, and also be wrong 9 out of 10 times. Remember that next time you hear a VC say...anything.
looksmaxxing is weird (at best) for all sorts of reasons, but one thing I do know: women have been doing it for millennia. guys, you're late
On the plus side, the Risky Business folks are the best
Unpopular opinion: I have deep reservations about policing misinformation online.
Ideally yes, blobs too.
Strongly agreed. I constantly find myself defending the PDS from app and client developers tempted by the easy shortcut of fetching records and blobs directly from PDSes instead of properly indexing and re-hosting them in appviews. Dangerous trend.
thanks @kevinmarks.com! and btw "invalid" here doesn't necessarily mean bad or wrong (afaik), it just means that the site owners haven't set up standard.site's domain-based validation aka verification: standard.site#verification ...which some will do, but not all. 🤷
fresh honeycomb, from friends who keep bees
Sunrise view of San Francisco from Twin Peaks, with both city lights and early light in the sky, and dramatic clouds
I've spent many thousands of hours and $50-100k (no joke, on either) building on ATProto over the last few years. I'm a fan, and an optimist. Please believe my sincerity and good faith here.
ATProto allows editing posts.
bsky.app doesn't show those edits yet, but that's just one app. (A big important one, sure, but still.)
when I think of Mastodon, cozy is...not the first word that comes to mind
Hmm. I'm with you of course!...but out of curiosity, looking at track record, so far everything that's dethroned a closed social network has been a...closed social network. What makes you think this time is different?
Exciting! Welcome! Love seeing more bridges and activity in this space.
If you haven't seen it already, check out some of the ways bridges are adding standard metadata to accounts and posts to mark them as bridged, avoid de-duping, etc:
Ah interesting, thanks! Yeah BF deliberately doesn't (yet) backfill from anywhere, web or fediverse or Bluesky.
Love seeing more bridges and more activity in this space!
afaik Bridgy Fed itself can also bridge Substacks 😁
"I'm writing Python and using the cloud, how is this happening"
I know it's a bad (good) day when debugging takes me all the way down into the Linux kernel docs
"What can be learned about maintenance mind from all this? One thing is the need to examine its opposite: neglect mind. Examples were evident in the 1968 Golden Globe Race...
The race's loser's...neglect mind was part laziness and ignorance, part surrender to fantasy.
Maintainers are realists."
fed.brid.gy/docs#bluesky...
An XKCD-style webcomic featuring a horizontal line with several stick figures representing different decentralized social protocols, labeled from left to right in order of increasing "purity." The title at the top reads: "PROTOCOLS ARRANGED BY PURITY" with an arrow pointing right labeled "MORE PURE." From left to right, the protocols and their accompanying dialogue are: ActivityPub: A stick figure stands at the start of the line. ATProto: A figure with glasses says, "ActivityPub is just federated ATProto." DSNP: A figure holding a small octopus says, "ATProto is just federated DSNP." Farcaster: A figure holding a bubbling flask says, "DSNP is just Polkadot-parachain Farcaster." Nostr: A figure looking back toward the others says, "Which still requires BFT consensus. It's nice to be on top." Urbit: Located far to the right, separated by a large gap, a figure waves and says, "Oh, Hey, I didn't see you guys all the way over there." The comic satirizes the "purity testing" and elitism within decentralized tech communities, ending with Urbit positioned as the most extreme and isolated outlier.
Qualified Reservations
Likewise, lmk if any are atproto.brid.gy
Thanks for looking!
I dunno. For experienced users who understood the community dynamics, maybe. But I expect only a minority of people had that kind of bad experience. Anecdotally, I was a casual occasional user, and I never did. I still expect question volume decline was driven much more by LLMs than community.
makes sense for looking at the moderation strike, most active 1% community, etc...but the biggest story around the business itself seems to be the *question volume* collapse, and question volume was never driven by inside baseball or mods etc, right?
