This by @Michael Foster is excellent: [www.blog-pat.ch/addition-mag...](

Paths & Patches

Addition, magic, community. Bluesky & the Fediverse.

How 3 + 0 adds up to more than 1 + 2 This week Bluesky added over a million users. It’s taken a lot of moving parts coming together to get to th...

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Paths & Patches

Addition, magic, community. Bluesky & the Fediverse.

How 3 + 0 adds up to more than 1 + 2 This week Bluesky added over a million users. It’s taken a lot of moving parts coming together to get to th...

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I can't claim to be objective at this point. Bluesky is the only platform that actually caters to news and politics: Threads is a joke, Twitter is run by alt-right chuds, Mastodon is, well, Mastodon. Users *don't* have to accept it. [www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...](https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/10/16/instagram-limits-political-content-shadowban-election-posts/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email ) https://shimeji.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:kkf4naxqmweop7dv4l2iqqf5&cid=bafkreihphadg5qyicedln4c3ybkycwy2sdc5kc2j73ezmzovkda3d7w63e

This is in an hour and a half! It'll honestly be more of a process talk than a tech talk, I'll be discussing what drives the projects I do rather than anything particularly technical about them (though there will be a bit of that too). See you there! RE:

Bluesky Social

AT Protocol Community (@atprotocol.dev)

Join us tomorrow at 9am PST / 12noon EST / 1800 CEST for our next Tech Talk: @aendra.com will talk about why Bluesky excites her and her experience...

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Someone who understands the English language better than me, please, I am vexed: Why do "good little " and "big bad <something>" sound correct, but "little good <something>" and and "bad big <something>" don't?</something></something></something>

Oh cool, both my upcoming @AT Protocol Community talk and my recent blog post about the News feed are mentioned in this ✨ RE:

Bluesky Social

Laurens (@laurenshof.online)

in this weeks newsletter: - 3 million new accounts for bluesky in just over a week - the brazilian dev community build 2 different ways of adding ...

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The single most annoying tendency new users have is to spend ten minutes on the platform then try to come up with a synonym for posts that isn't "skeet".

I'm thinking Twitter did something to its UI that drops the XBlock inference sensitivity dramatically, obvious Twitter screenshots are coming back as misses with like 75% certainty (threshold is 95%). I'm going to put extra weight on new Twitter screenshots next training run to compensate.

Hey check out my cool new website https://shimeji.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:kkf4naxqmweop7dv4l2iqqf5&cid=bafkreibul76fnm2jdkvjnv7mscax5macltoo2jnqfasnge3y7gzqw2nive

Dropped an idea in Bluesky's GitHub discussions about verification. I admit I'm not particularly expert in OAuth or SSO so I very much welcome feedback, please let me know if I'm missing something obvious with this idea. [github.com/bluesky-soci...](

GitHub

How to confirm ownership of a Bluesky account? · bluesky-social/atproto · Discussion #2544

Hey, I am a developer at Gravatar.com and we want to allow users to verify ownership of a Bluesky account. Most of our current integrations are bas...

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GitHub

How to confirm ownership of a Bluesky account? · bluesky-social/atproto · Discussion #2544

Hey, I am a developer at Gravatar.com and we want to allow users to verify ownership of a Bluesky account. Most of our current integrations are bas...

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The fact that this is an open platform where you can try wild moonshot ideas like this (I'm not on the Bluesky team, I'm just a simple gal who likes emoji and hates Twitter screenshots) is a hugely underrated aspect of this place. Can you imagine trying to build something like this on *Threads*? 🙅🏼‍♀️ RE:

Bluesky Social

ændra. (@aendra.com)

I'm nearing the first release of Bluemoji, thanks to everyone who's contributed feedback, it's extremely appreciated as I've not done anything this...

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