good, things are moving pretty quickly on the subscription front it seems RE:
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George Pearkes (@peark.es)
Wow, I'm getting Bsky updates as BBG headlines now *OVER 10M US USERS JOINED BLUESKY SINCE ELECTION *BLUESKY TO LAUNCH SUBSCRIPTIONS AT YEAR END, ...
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Bluesky in active competition with 2 different microblogging platforms, both ruled by billionaires that are actively shaping (tech) policy to their advantage. Both billionaires (correctly, imo) see Bluesky as a threat to their own platforms. RE:
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Financial Times (@financialtimes.com)
Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg seeks ‘active role’ in Donald Trump’s tech policies https://www.ft.com/content/69f86be5-ecdd-4222-92aa-3df0a8db213c
adding 'david mayer' to all my posts to opt out of genAI training RE:
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Melanie Mitchell (@melaniemitchell.bsky.social)
Someone went down this rabbit hole and wrote a fascinating post about it: https://centreforaileadership.org/resources/analysis_the_curious_case_of_...
threaded view getting turned off with every single fucking app update is so annoying
Just lost 2 hours of building in cities skylines 2 because I just found out that auto save is an optional feature that you have to manually enable in settings 🫠
"And don’t tell me about enshittification, that is a thought-terminating cliche that does not actually perform useful or interesting analysis and is little more than the new “just use linux” of annoying Fediverse reply guys." this essay/rant is so good Also still mad about omnivore RE:
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Shannon Mattern (@shannonmattern.bsky.social)
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im starting to think more and more that user verification (are you who you say you are, best done via domain verification) should be treated differently from fraud prevention (users being idiots for thinking its truly that celeb that dmed them about the latest token airdrop) RE:
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Bluesky Safety (@safety.bsky.app)
6/ We also hear your feedback: users want more ways to verify their identity beyond domain verification. We’re exploring additional options to en...
chat im looking for good moscow mule variations you can recommend
New AppView on ATProto: book reviews with Skylights 👀 RE:
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Gregor Samosa (@watwa.re)
It's ready(ish), review books on ATProto! Here are mine, show me yours: https://skylights.my/profile/watwa.re
This is a meaningful indication that an atproto network that sees large adoption is very quickly not gonna be purely only atproto there are very good incentives to take some parts of the atproto infra and build other open systems/protocols on top it RE:
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Alex Van de Sande (@avsa.eth.xyz)
I am offering 1 bitcoin (or 100k USD, whichever you want) to any team who successfully builds true P2P integration to a major Bluesky client. It me...