we really gotta reclaim the word “tech” and “technology” from the silicon valley sickos

A note for sports: Bluesky’s engagement rate was x10 higher than X’s across a sampling of identical posts made on both platforms by @rapsheet.bsky.social (sharing with permission) Fwiw we see a similar trend across all communities, not just sports. Real people, real conversations.

Another day building the future of the social web!

by the way, the Expo auth package landed in @atproto! www.npmjs.com/package/@atp...

Cons: it’s 2AM. Pros: I have learned how to efficiently backfill records. It was a fair trade.

@pfrazee.com I’m just curious about the bsky-lexicons account. It seems like the lexicon PDS records should be under an account with the same domain. That way I could find them by handle automatically and assume that they’d be correct.

My friends and I have been #teamhumpy for YEARS. We have t-shirts. Humpy has always been the Mariner’s secret weapon and I’m glad they have FINALLY used to his full potential #ifyouainthumpyyouainttrying

@coraoberly.bsky.social walks in to a bar, the Mariners win the game #nojoke

One of the great things about building on #atproto is that you’re not alone. But when we go one step further and actively collaborate I think we unleash the full potential of the protocol. We all have different strengths and areas of expertise and good things happen when we combine them.

I know it’s not technically polite, but I love having a conversation with other people who are comfortable with short interjecting interruptions. To me it makes the conversation feel more like something we’re weaving together rather than alternating individual presentations. It feels more alive.

Mariners bullpen with a chance to go to the ALCS:

Fan wearing a "Dump Here" jersey with 61 caught Cal's HR 🔥 Immediately changes into an identical 62 jersey

What!? This is awesome!

I think I fixed this upload size bug that was effecting longer videos. If I did this right, it should also improve upload quality!

@danabra.mov inspired me to get GraphQL working with @slices.network aaaand it's pretty rad. Slices will generate query interfaces based on your Slices' lexicon and you can join on did/ref/uri. Here's a remix on Dan's teal demo using the entire @teal.fm dataset. slices-teal-relay.bigmoves.deno.net

@statisticsftw.bsky.social remember when I said we couldn’t query atproto with GraphQL? Well @slices.network might have just changed that! I’d use Isograph in a heartbeat with atproto.

I wonder why @bsky-lexicons.bsky.social is the one that has the 'app.bsky' lexicon records and not @bsky.app (or a subdomain) It seems like that would've been a good way to distribute lexicons...

@slices.network looks so cool. This is exactly what I wish we had when we started @skylight.social

how might we, the atproto community, do better at this? how much of the onus is on the community vs bluesky?

we can just do things

Y’all I think the Harlem Shake is back

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Seriously so freaking cool that Ariel built this!

TIEGAMI

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Custom PDS login is fixed!

"We don't talk about politics at work" Imagine dedicating your life to something and not even daring to dream that your work could have a political impact Looking deep into the innermost part of your soul and there's giant glowing letters there spelling out "B2B SaaS"

Feels like a good time to shout-out @graze.social for all the hard work they’ve been doing to make Graze so awesome! Feeds are one of my favorite parts of Bluesky, and there is no better game in town for feed building than Graze. :)

🚀 In Flashes 1.5 we’re rolling out the first-ever Feed Builder for any consumer ATProto app - built together with @graze.social Now you truly have the freedom to create your own feeds. 🎶

Omg there was a silent failure in my deploy script and Android hasn’t been getting these updates 🤦‍♂️

someone needs to make a tiktok to skylight / atproto following list where 1. make list followings on tiktok (user & display name) 2. show list of users matching 1 on atmosphere w option to quick follow 3. remove from list if found + no false-positive reported 4. send DM when new users match 1 found

Just submitted Streamplace for inclusion in the "Services" list on OBS, which will help us out a ton with automatic configuration. Please don't spam the thread with comments or anything, but a 👍 to let them know that you want it is appreciated! github.com/obsproject/o...

they should make an escape room called “social media startup circa 2025”. would be equal parts impossible and equal parts terrifying

I can’t overstate how big this is going to be for @skylight.social. We’re leaning in to feeds but building custom video feeds has always been tough because the content is opaque. What is this video about? And Graze just solves this by transcribing all of the video posts 🤯

@reedharmeyer.bsky.social's Football Channel is looking great! Listening into the audio to create the highlight reel

Feeds thrive on context - and we just added a ton more. Graze now lets feed builders filter content based on quote posts, parent posts, author & mentioned user metadata, *and* text transcriptions from videos! More freedom to our feed builders, and way better feeds for the ecosystem! Lets see a few:

What makes Bluesky different: it’s open source, so anyone can contribute to building the experience they want. And even if you build a whole new app, the protocol means you can migrate with your data, identity, and relationships intact.

Things that aren’t working in #skylight: 1. User’s posts/reposts as a Feed. We thought reposts would be an easy way for someone to build a feed. Instead a feed of posts/reposts seem to give everyone the ick. What do y’all think we should change?

There seems to be a growing cult of people worshipping the iPhone 13 Pro Max. There are videos with 100k+ likes about Apple’s trade-in policy that are conspiracies like “why do they want this phone back so bad?”

@tannerlinsley.com I think I’ve got a good use case for Tanstack DB and I’d love to get your thoughts. It’s an #atproto video app built on @expo.dev & @cloudflare.social I’d like to build a partial sync system where the app syncs with its Durable Object which syncs with atproto + services.

The more content there is the more important curation becomes.

I've disabled invite codes for signing up or migrating to the blacksky.app Personal Data Server (PDS). The invite codes were necessary to prevent en masse bot signups. We've since turned on captchas and added rate limiting to the server. You no longer need to DM me or email [email protected]

@pfrazee.com GIFs are videos now? This kind of messes up video feeds, don’t you think?

“Where are you going?” “To Nice” “Tunis, got it.”

Custom Feed Discovery is now working on @skylight.social! This is OG Videos+ courtesy of @byarielm.fyi where it’s all original content all the time. To ensure all the Discovery feeds are SFW we’re currently using a hardcoded list so let me know what to add or remove!

I don’t want a baddie I want a goodie

Can everyone like, calm down and give the Bluesky team one day to even read the news before packing and leaving?…

Bug Fixes Update!! Biggest win by @reedharmeyer.bsky.social is the app no longer crashes! 🥲 Hallelujah!! Shout out to the folks who helped us find and solve these bugs over email, in comments, and on canny.io! Appreciate you all so much!!