About 18 months after, BlueSky clearly offers the superior user experience but that’s done nothing to attract and retain audiences.

1. Bluesky doesn’t downrank links 2. You can choose your own algorithm from among thousands 3. The whole app is open source This keeps it a free and open platform by design, leading to better click-throughs and traffic to your site. We 💙 the open web.

I exit founders for a living. It takes a special personality to bring something into existence: grit, passion, vision. But most Founders lack the self-awareness to embrace the limitations to scale their creations. That's where people like me enter. juan.co/blog/wordpre...

An interesting consequence of the rise of artificial intelligence is that the rule of thumb that you can only manage 3-7 direct reports is out the window. With AI and automation, you can have dozens of directs evidently. apple.news/AUMQm5cG8RyS...

This is genuinely terrifying. I know the network effect accounts for the primary reason why the incumbents like Twitter and Facebook cannot really be dislodged by “better” alternatives, but outrages like these should be real wake up calls to anyone who values a rules-based world order.

Happy Valentine’s Day! Love comes in many forms, and romantic love is only one. I do this work because I love the internet, the infinite creativity of people, and believe we can build a better social web.

"Time is money, friend!" greet the Goblins in @warcraft.bsky.social. Yet, too many leaders in business waste valuable time and money holding pointless meetings with their reports. Check-Ins can be rebooted to help team members be successful by doing these three things: juan.co/the-check-in/

Given the recent ruckus over the Mastodon<>Bsky bridge project, here's an update of my take on the personas of the social networks

Good morning to the horrors that await us

Really happy to hear that BlueSky has opened to the public, but I'm not going to lie: generally worried that this platform missed the boat with a private invite-only beta that lasted too long and not enough uniqueness or differentiation to standout from Twitter/X and, sadly, Meta Threads. Let's see!

If you do not want the compulsory Microsoft Windows 10 or Windows 11 deployment of Copilot AI, this handy "nopilot" registry file adds two line items that remove taskbar integration and disables copilot on Windows altogether. H/T @poison-sumac.bsky.social

“If you are unwilling to disrupt your business, there will always be someone willing to do it for you.” Netflix’s Marc Randolph reminds us how Blockbuster refused to partner when it was comfortable and on top. The lesson is clear: Always aim to put yourself out of business.

Please join me in welcoming the legendary Joe Trippi to Bluesky! 👋 Welcome, Joe! ✨

May the Fourth Be With You especially to anyone who dropped a dime in the juke at Franco’s Pizza on South Street in the late 70s to hear this sweet number https://youtu.be/dWRWYYt47RI

New to Bluesky? Start here with @merve.bsky.social’s newcomer’s list! 👇🏼

Warcraft’s character classes translated into Spanish! 🇪🇸 🇨🇺: 🪓 Caballero de la Muerte 👹 Cazador de demonios 🌳 Druida 🐉 Evocador 🏹 Cazador 🧙🏼‍♂️ Mago 🥢 Monje 🛡️ Paladín 🙏 Sacerdote 🗡️ Pícaro 🔥 Chamán 💀 Brujo ⚔️ Guerrero

since this is coming up, I have nothing but appreciation for Mastodon and activitypub. We had another approach we wanted to take and that’s it it’s pretty normal for folks to root for their communities but it’s not zero sum and we should be rooting for every baby turtle make it off the beach

People may not appreciate just how revolutionary @atproto.com is. If it succeeds, it’s like Mastodon with better onboarding and stronger adoption. A federation without defederating, with radical transparency and individual controls for all users. It will be the undoing of all other social media! 💫

And this is why History is so amazing. ⚓️

Sunny Sunday! ☀️ Here’s a wonderful feel-good story to start positive vibes on this marvelous day, from NPR: a study shows that Parrots, when taught how to make video calls, form enduring feathery friendships that regularly keep in touch with their companions! 🦜

The Arathorian Empire dissolved into the Seven Kingdoms, and as of the start of Warcraft's Dragonflight, all but two of them (*) are active and in the Alliance: Alterac*, Kul-Tiras, Stormwind, Lordaeron*, Stromgarde, Gilneas, and Dalaran.

The more you learn about @atproto.com's plans for Federation and Moderation, the more you realize that Bluesky and other servers like it are just solving this problem: "What if there were an easy way to welcome new people to Mastodon and teach them to stay?" Welcome to the Future. 💫

time to dust off that domain you've been hoarding for years and set it as your handle. easy tutorial up on our blog now! https://blueskyweb.xyz/blog/4-28-2023-domain-handle-tutorial

Blocks and Likes are all public on the protocol, because they need to be universally respected. But Mutes are server-specific and would only carry over if the right permissions get set. 🔥

Blocking is here! Radically transparent, like Likes, all blocks are public and @atproto.com API calls allow you to easily see everyone’s blocks. Expect decentralized suggested block lists as an early app coming out of this! Killer implementation.

Thanks, Jack! I feel seen and heard! 🥰

Great summary of where Bluesky is headed by our CEO, @jay.bsky.team. TL;DR - Fediverse / Federation and Moderation are two key unique and differentiated offerings of the @ATProto.com backbone, and how Bluesky implements will set it apart from other Mastodon / Pleroma / etc. instances and servers.

Reminder to all: everything on Bluesky is 100% public. Your likes, especially. Check out the @atproto.com API docs, and understand that this is one giant fediverse experiment (like Mastodon, only with a much better new user onboarding experience). IOW: Your employer will eventually see this.

Last week we launched app passwords, a short-term solution for authentication that will let users experiment with new clients without fully trusting them with their passwords. When using third-party apps, please use an app password while we implement SSO with scoped permissions. In settings:

In 1980s Retro Tech, the Fisher PH-W464 BOOMBOX AM/FM STEREO Radio Dual Cassette Blaster, with auto reverse and high speed dubbing. Given to me as a birthday present in the mid 1980s by my Great Uncle Pepe, this machine was a beast! Anyone else have this beauty?

Definitely a 1 here. Atari 2600 FTW! 🕹️

We are opening up the federation sandbox in a few days. Also, to say most adopters don’t care about decentralization at all feels untrue. Many users on Bluesky are creators/artists who care about owning the relationship w their audience. Many are devs who can always build on atproto.

One minute you're peeing, the next you're deep in memes.

This is the reason why I'm bullish on Bluesky. Building on an existing, battle-tested infrastructure of DNS – the naming system for websites – is a brilliant move.

Hello, World! Has anyone figured out how we can easily find our friends from other platforms and make connections? 👾