Two reasons to like BlueSky:<p>1. Your username can be your website. I'm @bradgessler.com.<p>2. Copy and pasting images into a message works on iOS (this has been broken on X/Twitter for a long time).<p>There's more reasons to like it, but these two feel pretty great.<p>I put a Ruby hacker starter pack together if you're looking for a way in:<p><a href="https://go.bsky.app/HXB2cPh" rel="nofollow">https://go.bsky.app/HXB2cPh</a><p>There's tons of other ones and communities as well.
The bsky firehose is really fun and feels like a misty-eyed throwback to 2005.<p>I used it last weekend to throw together this very silly little thing:
<a href="https://bigmood.blue/" rel="nofollow">https://bigmood.blue/</a>
Ooo we're back in the old good days of twitter again! The time where you could build against it and do things.<p>I wrote a contest winning bot back at one tie:<p><a href="https://theexceptioncatcher.com/blog/2015/11/how-i-got-my-bot-banned-by-twitter/" rel="nofollow">https://theexceptioncatcher.com/blog/2015/11/how-i-got-my-bo...</a>
This is cool and a big reason to root for BlueSky over X, all politics aside.<p>I wonder if they (or some third party) offers zip files of dumps of various kinds? It seems that would go easier on thier servers.
I'm still irate Twitter broke all my automaton and then had the gal to try to charge me $100 a month!? Looks like it's up to $200 now.<p>That's as much as my car loan... No normal individual can justify that.
I have an important account on Twitter where I publish manually posts, thoughts, links, announcement, etc. I tried to look for a way to crosspost to Threads and Bluesky automatically, but I couldn't find anything. Any suggestions?
I mean, the punch line of this post is that the "firehose" of even a successful social network is trivial to handle. Even Twitter at its pinnacle of popularity barely breached ~10000 posts/second intraday peaks. If you only want to observe and transiently store such traffic you barely even need a computer.
I dont understand why I would build on bluesky when it seems like it would have the same medium term issues that the twitter api had anyway, but enjoy it while it lasts I guess.
decentralized social media is the achilles heel of democrats. they just keep throwing themselves at it and it never works and never will work. while democrats work feverishly on this concept, X continues to grow daily. i would put money on this if polymarket hadnt just been the victim of a politically motivated FBI raid…