unfortunate how dunked-upon this post is, and that Noah & Nate Silver critiquing Bluesky in this manner are reasonably accurate. Bluesky seemed like a really awesome experiment in open social media ecosystems, but ultimately has ended up primarily being a lefty Gab/Truth Social?

i'd really really love to see this for bsky someday the open ecosystem really makes this feel like it'd make more sense

Bluesky’s ATH daily active posters is 1.5M. It’s around 600k rn. Will it cross 1M again this year? manifold.markets/venki/will-b...

good social media platform sora.chatgpt.com/explore/top

building a small free product that lets you know when ChatGPT scrapes your website to use in a conversation. if you have a website & would want to beta test it, lmk

More Drowning Children

everything is $/MTok if you squint at it

that's right im a freelance, unpaid, documentation writer now

merry christmas beskies

Surprised that this is getting dunked on, I thought Bluesky leaned further left.

Insurance companies aren't the main villain of the U.S. health system

good post, incisive as usual from eury!

pretty wild we have only half as many cows as 100 years ago because they each produce 6x as much milk!

Great piece! Compelling framing of the beliefs of {tech, DC, voters} generally shifting in ways that just made tech & democrats less aligned

I generally wish the guidelines you could be banned for were more minimal. Eg: only for illegal things that you’re legally forced to ban.

I heard people wanted a million Bluesky posts? So I made an open-source script that allows anyone to scrape the Bluesky firehose and collect everything people post. This will be a useful resource to anyone who wants to archive this data or train generative AI. Have fun! github.com/deepfates/bs...

Feature request: bot/automated account badges like on Twitter I’ve tried to use: a) disclaimers in bio, b) distinctive handles, but my bots are still occasionally mistaken for real people. A self-identified automated account badge would really help!

10k followers on @noahpinion.blogsky.venki.dev!

thinking about tech internships/apprenticeships. - very high value to be hired as a intern/apprentice/junior - meh value to hire an intern/apprentice/junior (because: they're net-negative at the start + fast turnover is the norm) how do you reconcile to preserve this positive externality?

pretty cool. i do wonder how soon will people figure out monetizing aspects of Bluesky. can you make a (feedgen, labeler, benevolent bot) and monetize it?

huh

Moonbounce looks pretty cool you can hang out with friends on webpages (that you whitelist), and chat / join friends on what they're looking at etc www.getmoonbounce.com

can someone explain the starter pack engagement farming thing to me again or point me to a thread? @vivalapanda.moe tried but i didnt get it / what's going on here

i just sent documents to the IRS via a web form for the first time, instead of fax/mail we're so back.

hmm, MAUs: - bsky: 7.5m (from bskycharts) - mastodon: 800k (from fedidb) - threads: 275m (official source) - twitter: 330m (varies 300m-500m from diff sources?)

request for feed: all posts with manifold links

low grade bsky anxiety about having 16 accounts on a PDS hosted on Oracle cloud free tier hmm todo: figure out off-platform backups before they axe me

great post: the negative impacts are larger than i would have anticipated. i guess we're better at monetizing addictiveness than i thought?

I feel like there's something here but I do feel like this idea is vague & incomplete. It was in my drafts for a long time though, so I decided to finally publish it. Can you tell me what it's missing?

really good post thanks scott 🐀👑

thinking about: “personal website as a tool for self-actualization or identity development”

okay im officially unemployed, in my chillaxing era, come hang out

i have come to bluesky to spread the word about a sub-2B param vision language model

pcp claims that vitamin d is fake and new meta analyses show that: - testing it isn’t worth it unless you have ckd or gastric bypass or such - supplementing it usually doesn’t do much - low vitamin d levels are usually a trailing indicator of chronic disease is this true? @elicit.com

trying to be a 2x2 guy but somehow i always end up drawing a pareto frontier

like how the Apple Watch can kinda diagnose you with cardio arrhythmia they should make screen time diagnose you with ADD

thinking about this one again slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/10/s...

just set up @blogsky.venki.dev - it mirrors various substack/rss feeds to bluesky, to make it easier to read/share them in one place! lmk if there’s any feeds you’d like to see me add

using your own abstractions is so cool thanks past venki for grokking the complexities & papering over them so i don't need to hold them in my head rn :)

fyi @why.bsky.team - @vivalapanda.moe and i are running into a bug with Quiet Posters. it looks like a single post by this account on my PDS (@noahpinion.blogsky.venki.dev) is showing up multiple times in a row on Quiet Posters. looks fine on the accts profile + looks fine on other feeds

this is about scott

reading Diaspora - it’s a really good scifi book so far and thinking about how good books are _very_ stimulating in some way. brings me back to this old sympopp post

www.community-archive.org + bsky allowing you to make backdated posts could allow for a pretty good bit Which is an option to retroactively mirror all twitter posts in the archive: including interactions between people if they’re both in the archive

its kinda crazy that if i had to set up a static page at a new domain rn i could do it in ~10 minutes using a create-t3-app Next.js app + Vercel or Fly + Cloudflare registrar. but i don't really know how i'd do it with static HTML + js. esp since i kinda prefer tailwind & react syntax

what's the best bring-your-own API key UX for a chatbot? reqs: - can render copiable markdown output - persistent chats - claude-3.5-sonnet the goal is to not be bounded by daily rate limits.

it was surprisingly very easy to set up a PDS? like took <5 minutes and just worked? nice work bsky team

one problem i anticipate with bsky feedgen: you really want impression data for a good feed algo! {engagements} is straightforwardly worse for ranking than {engagements/impressions} and i doubt you could fit it in the firehose

related why do we pass like 1000 new bills a year in CA that’s too much law we have enough law already make it stop

i feel incentivized to post on bsky because i can post links but disincentivized because there's still nobody here 🤔

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