One penny per tax dollar is what science, ALL science in America costs.
I would gladly spend two or even three cents per tax dollar to double or triple what America spends on science.
That is how you make things better, for everyone.
@gruber.foo found a leftover word
Wow, my sleep deprivation is really showing. You’re right, definitely an aggregator and not a full client. If the tweetbot team made a full client that’d be sweet for sure.
They just came out with Tapestry app a few days ago
Just launched a few days ago!
cc @gruber.foo
@gruber.foo just noticed this typo
TLDR: API limitation of 5,000 timeline posts (includes replies) limits app developers’ ability to implement this feature past 5,000 most recent posts.
Thread from @skeetsapp.com For everyone requesting the "save my timeline scroll position across app restarts": I worked on this over the holidays and had it almost done when i hit a wall. The API will only let me query the user's timeline ~5000 posts into the past. This sounds like a lot, but it also contains all the comments the people you follow post. So depending on the number of users you follow and how much they post this can be anything from 1 day to 5 days. For me personal it's ~24h. So when saving your currently read post and trying to restore the timeline after a restart later it's possible that I cannot load that post any longer. I've already created a bug report / feature request in the @bsky.app repo (cc @dholms.xyz @pfrazee.com ) I will make the feature available to Pro users anyhow as an opt-in. Maybe it works for you and make the app more enjoyable. So let's hope the backend adds support for loading older timeline items soon.
Full thread:
Linked post: https://bsky.app/profile/skeetsapp.com/post/3lfa32kfctc26
App Store Skeets app update 1.22.0 (2 weeks ago) Happy New Year! NEW: • Skeets Pro Feature: Save reading position between relaunches (Beta implementation, activate in Feed-Settings). For more information read https://bsky.app/profile/skeetsapp.com/post/3lfa32kfctc26
Just checked the latest App Store release notes:
Screenshot of the Skeets for Bluesky app listing page in the iOS App Store which mentions “your reading position will be saved”
@gruber.foo does this describe what you mentioned in your post?
Passage from Carl Sagan’s A demon-haunted world book.
Some folks are pretty good seeing things coming.
A beautiful sunrise paddle in Glacier National Park.
A stick is held upright at an angle to show its underside is covered in Splitgill mushrooms, one stacked above the next, each of them radiating gills from their center, above a leaf covered forest floor Photo by me #mushroomsky #fungifriends
Here are some nice mushrooms
Me: Hey can you do your dishes
My roommate The Buddha: Perhaps your problem is not my dishes but your attachment to a clean sink
Me: Alright man
Hegseth: Typical Trump. All bluster, very low substance… he’s an armchair tough guy. This is a guy who said that John McCain is not a war hero yet he sought his own five military deferments
My thought for this Tuesday ☕️☕️☕️
What dark wizardry is this
NEW: Bluesky has seen massive growth in the weeks following the US election. There are 24 million users on the social media platform.
With great engagement comes great responsibility, which means Bluesky CEO @jay.bsky.team has a lot to do. She sat down with WIRED to talk about it.
the driver cussed out every police bus he saw on the way.
I’m worried that kids today are growing up without a video game series that teaches them 13 or 15 similar sounding skate punk songs
"Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil."
Thomas Mann
having exactly (1) day out of the year where every amateur chef in America attempts to cook a giant bird and not fuck it up is, honestly, a wonderful and hilarious tradition
Jack Dorsey texts Elon Musk
March 26, 2022
Bluesky is truly having an incredible run as Threads' head of product
super fascinating interview on twitter’s business model and elon’s takeover
Jack Dorsey: All that said, I really respect Jay. She was under a lot of pressure to survive and do the things that she did. But directionally, I just don't align with it. And I'd love to see more effort placed on open protocols akin to Nostr, which hits every single attribute that I was searching for when we originally kicked this idea off. If you go back to my thread, and Mike Masnick's Protocols, Not Platforms article, it hits every single one of those things, whereas Bluesky ultimately just went another direction. Mike Solana: Yeah, once I had access, Bluesky really just confused me. It didn't present as an underlying technology people, maybe even Twitter, would be building on top of. I mean it looked, felt, and functioned like just another version of Twitter. Jack Dorsey: It was the anti-Twitter. People were literally running from Twitter to Bluesky, and that is not a way to build something successful.
Jack Dorsey: Around the same time, I found Nostr. We don't know who the leader is, it's like this anonymous Brazilian. It has no board, no company behind it, no funding. It's a truly open protocol. The development environment is moving fast. And I gave a bunch of money to them. Day by day, I learned that this was actually the path. It emerged from something that was not Twitter-driven, it was a reaction to Twitter's failures, and I thought that was right as well. That's what I should help, and that's what I should support. So I just decided to delete my account on Bluesky, and really focus on Nostr, and funding that to the best of my ability. I asked to get off the board as well, because I just don't think a protocol needs a board or wants a board. And if it has a board, that's not the thing that I wanted to help build or wanted to help fund.
Jack Dorsey: This tool was designed such that it had, you know, it was a base level protocol. It had a reference app on top. It was designed to be controlled by the people. I think the greatest idea — which we need - is an algorithm store, where you choose how you see all the conversations. But little by little, they started asking Jay and the team for moderation tools, and to kick people off. And unfortunately they followed through with it. That was the second moment I thought, uh, nope. This is literally repeating all the mistakes we made as a company. This is not a protocol that's truly decentralized. It's another app. It's another app that's just kind of following in Twitter's footsteps, but for a different part of the population. Everything we wanted around decentralization, everything we wanted in terms of an open source protocol, suddenly became a company with VCs and a board. That's not what I wanted, that's not what I intended to help create.
