But fr it's going to be a whole new ballgame in 2026. A lot of the tech is getting solid, I expect private data to land, the devex is going to get constant love, bluesky's redoing the website and launching a lexicon discovery site, and the community is doing incredible stuff

Which, among other things, is a testament to how good my coworkers are

Hah I shouldnt be glib about a real question We're not 100% sure yet! We have enough runway to try a few things, and we're talking about a number of options.

Bluesky's company is still smaller than the team that Threads launched with

Probably the most galling thing was seeing Threads make claims like "We're basically a small startup of 60 people!" and then nobody asked questions about how they handled 100 million signups in a week. You have no idea how much blood sweat and tears our team was pouring to scale during that time

It was obvious when it happened. My specific words were "Well, yeah, well done, that's how I'd cut our knees out too"

Ah man was this a lie, no way that's crazy fortune.com/2023/07/06/m... https://morel.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:ragtjsm2j2vknwkz3zp4oxrd&cid=bafkreidbtva6p76oqpj755h2445hfryo33574hwcr5sbtt5trvoqolqdje

And then they realized that they can just federate with their own products and call it a day https://morel.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:ragtjsm2j2vknwkz3zp4oxrd&cid=bafkreiasxxmp2gjylr36iu6ldp7qyeqbdvufwzigahvc2c66kzpbgcs2ta

Ah that's crazy, it's almost like Threads picked up the decentralization messaging when they launched so they could neutralize the Atmosphere sources.news/p/whats-next... https://morel.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:ragtjsm2j2vknwkz3zp4oxrd&cid=bafkreicniycpuyuqbwirsigx5eryjgjcjceundplurz7p2sqc5s3jfoa6y

but for real nice work @leaflet.pub@bsky.brid.gy