If you're a news org and you need help figuring out how to do this, or if you're a freelance/independent journalist and need some direction setting up a portfolio site and/or domain, please DM me, I'm more than happy to help. 💚 RE:
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Paul Frazee (@pfrazee.com)
There's a whole lot of conversation still to be had about proving identity, but just want to call out that this option is available right now (and ...
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Seriously — stop importing old tweets you utter weirdos, you're negatively impacting all 3rd party infra that consumes the firehose RE:
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Bossett (@bossett.social)
I dug into some of this - the lag in the feeds is a result of high activity AND people importing old stuff, since the feedgen needs to look at ever...
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I'm going to stop being gripe-y for a second (sorry, but I have sign-posted I'm a bit stressed) to be a touch more positive: The 📰 News feed is currently receiving about *1.2 MILLION* requests a *DAY* That's ridiculous. What's even more ridiculous is I'm able to serve this traffic on $50 of infra. https://shimeji.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:kkf4naxqmweop7dv4l2iqqf5&cid=bafkreigmjqy6mmjghdr7kksd75bahavnywdlv7de3l2kcgq3f44qe5stjq
Here's a thought: If you want to try your hand at AT Proto development and want an oven-ready idea plus me to mentor you through building it, hit me with a DM. My latest free idea is for a bluetick-esque verification system leveraging OAuth to validate existing socials... 👀 RE:
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ændra. (@aendra.com)
So many project ideas, so little time, so many unfinished existing projects
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So many project ideas, so little time, so many unfinished existing projects
Quietly closing the lid of my laptop before efficiently frisbeeing it out the window. It explodes in midair, raining fiery debris onto the yard below. [TITLE: "Machine learning. Not even once."]
One is allowed to simply not care what people on Mastodon think about Bluesky.
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:
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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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