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its funny how every other microblogging platform (Threads, Farcaster, Mastodon) is rushing to copy Bluesky and add Starter Packs while Bluesky is slowly coming to the realisation that Starter Packs might be bad actually RE:
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Γ¦ndra. (@aendra.com)
It's starter packs. I had a bunch of people follow me thinking I'm going to spoon-feed and dumb down every post because I'm in a journalism starter...
as a side note: I think people dont appreciate enough how incredible quickly good/valuable posts spread through a community So if you block all followers of someone, there is not actually a real risk of missing 'valuable content'. Good content gets copied and spread immediately anyway RE:
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Comfortably Numb (@numb.comfortab.ly)
Don't follow bad accounts. Not for shits and giggles, not to "keep an eye on them." blockenheimer.click lets anybody block any account's followers ...
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I love the Dutch Championships Headwind Cycling, it is is one of the funniest parts of Dutch culture. The race is done on a single-geared city bike (back-pedal brake), and you have to cross the Oosterschelde Dam. The race happens when there is a storm that gives you direct headwind. RE:
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Geology of the Tour de France (@geotdf.bsky.social)
Today is the day of the Dutch Championships Headwind Cycling, where pro riders get beaten by the mailman! It will be a mild edition, with only a 6-...
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there a few realisations as powerful and radicalising as this one imo, since the implications on how our global information ecosystem works are so wide ranging RE:
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Katelyn Burns (@katelynburns.com)
Whenever I explain that almost 95% of the disinformation that gets laundered through mainstream media comes from 10 people who are all in the same ...
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it is very funny to use pictures as hashtags for people who cannot read RE:
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Pop Crave (@popcrave.com)
Police believe the suspected gunman who killed UnitedHealthcare CEO has left New York City.
I've been keeping track of how many people mention the idea of insta on atproto, and its a lot at this point shows how the direction of a network is less dependent on the space of possibilities, and much more on the people willing to push it in the direction they envision RE:
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ceej (@ceej.online)
who's gonna build me atproto instagram, man? every single interaction in that app sucks to use. you can actively feel zuckerberg fighting you whene...
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writing is thinking, and its annoying how much your brain tricks you into pretending that thinking about writing is also thinking
Last Week in Bluesky and the ATmosphere This week's news: - continued calls verification on bluesky - more ai datasets with bluesky posts appear - book reviews on ATProto with Skylights - [Lexicon.community](
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Bluesky is cementing it's position for news, conversations on verification, book reviews with Skylights, and much more.
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Im concerned by the lack of plan regarding this role. Dont even know if its fulltime or parttime, which continent it will be based on, and what the idea is once the funding money runs out RE:
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rahaeli (@rahaeli.bsky.social)
....you're gonna have a bitch of a time finding anyone who is experienced enough to do that job at $75k, I'm sorry to say. [contains quote post or...