Kuba Suder • @mackuba.eu on 🦋

Indie Mac/iOS & web developer. Building random fun things using Swift, Ruby and occasionally JavaScript.

I'm mostly hanging out on Bluesky these days and hacking things on the AT Protocol, so follow me there 😎  Alternatively, bridged Bluesky account is here: [@mackuba.eu](https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/mackuba.eu ).

Location: Mariner Valley, Martian Congressional Republic
Blog: https://mackuba.eu
Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/mackuba.eu
Languages: Polish, English, Swift, Ruby

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2026-04-02 21:56:19 UTC

Reminder: if you're on iOS 18, you *really* should install this https://mjtsai.com/blog/2026/04/02/ios-18-7-7-and-ipados-18-7-7/

2026-03-30 15:20:49 UTC

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That it's meant to give back more control to people, not to get control over them

2026-03-30 14:12:17 UTC

RE: https://werd.social/@ben/116318506648784468
I wish more people here understood this... #bluesky
#note19u7…d6py

2026-03-20 20:38:52 UTC

Some big news from #Bluesky for #ATProto again 👀
Two things:
1) Daniel has recently been publishing a series of blog posts about how the shared-private / permissioned part of the protocol will look like, and today he published a first complete overview of how it will work. This will enable non-public posts on Bluesky and a lot of new types of apps (e.g. non-public photo sharing, private Facebook-like groups, services like Strava, etc.)
https://dholms.leaflet.pub/3mhj6bcqats2o

2026-03-19 19:36:46 UTC

https://bsky.social/about/blog/03-19-2026-series-b
"Last April" 🧐
cc @npub1kxu…9fca, @npub1hmq…rlex 🫠

2026-03-14 16:44:42 UTC

Is Claude/Codex able to work in Mac/iOS apps with storyboards or XIBs? (and if so, is it only in the new #xcode integration or standalone too?) 🤔 #macdev

2026-02-25 17:43:06 UTC

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cc @npub1kxu…9fca, @npub1hmq…rlex
(Paul's bridged thread here if you want to respond to him: https://mastodon.social/@npub1r89…kwp7/116132389644633816)

2026-02-25 17:31:40 UTC

[@pfrazee.com](https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/pfrazee.com ) from #bluesky writes about how decentralization in #atproto compares to the architecture of ActivityPub and networks like Nostr: https://www.pfrazee.com/blog/practical-decentralization

2026-02-18 22:20:38 UTC

😃
https://martianbase.net/system/media_attachments/files/116/093/959/444/689/238/original/c1db34d154f2d522.jpeg

2026-02-18 17:53:57 UTC

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yeah well… it's a downside. But it's a solvable problem, it's not hard to detect such fake engagement because of how transparent everything is. It's also possible to build smarter feeds that take such things as who you follow & trust into account (and people have).
Mastodon also has the Trending feed, if you go to mastodon.social logged out, you get an overview of what people are talking about today on the Fedi.

2026-02-18 17:23:22 UTC

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But the conditions aren't publicly known, since then the spammers would work around them… so sometimes people get it unfairly and don't know why. (I've seen it applied e.g. after someone posted a gofundme link, since there were a lot of scams like that, e.g. a post about some dog that got hit with a car, with a drastic photo, and they're collecting money "to save the dog", plus 1000s of likes on it from fake accounts to bump it up in feeds.)

2026-02-18 17:21:33 UTC

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there are some conditions they've configured that trigger this label being added, and it stays until it expires in 7 days or until they review it. It's meant to detect likely spam accounts and hide them until they're manually checked.

2026-02-13 17:16:43 UTC

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I wouldn't put it this way that they want their service to be the best among alternatives, because they're generally very happy when alternatives show up and they support everyone doing that, it's just that naturally since they're starting from a position of absolute dominance, it's hard to imagine them not being the largest on the network for a long time.

2026-02-12 17:30:30 UTC

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What I mean is, a relay by itself doesn't give you anything. An AppView usually feeds from one trusted relay, so you can kind of treat these two as one whole from the decentralization perspective.

2026-02-12 16:35:57 UTC

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The relay isn't the crucial piece, because you don't really interact with it directly, the key part is the AppView (API server). Blacksky is now beta-testing theirs. Of course most users won't be using it, but I think at least most from the Blacksky community will.
E.g. here's the Link guy who was famously banned from Bluesky which gave them motivation to get this thing ready: https://staging.blacksky.community/profile/did:plc:63hvnyjvqi2nzzcsjgnry5we

2026-02-11 20:53:02 UTC

Top 10 open & community #Bluesky / #ATProto PDSes right now. (Some are open-signup, some are "ask for invite to prevent spambots", some are "for my circle of friends".)
The list here on the screenshot is filtered to only show that kind (marked with ☀️), which is why the index numbers in the first column are not 1-10. The third column is number of accounts, counting only those which are seen by Bluesky relay and have posted anything at all.
From: https://blue.mackuba.eu/directory/pdses
https://martianbase.net/system/media_attachments/files/116/053/978/807/841/629/original/e75e32b9625477e1.jpeg

2026-02-04 23:41:41 UTC

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He does seem to have a kinda short fuse from what I've seen… and has permanently limited replying to only his followers in all his threads

2026-01-27 02:32:49 UTC

I absolutely hate the fact that 'sudo systemctl restart foo' and 'sudo service foo restart' have the opposite order of arguments -_-

2026-01-19 01:52:42 UTC

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Yeah, things like fetching missing replies are a huge step forward I gotta say (though I'm not sure what are the performance implications of that), but I still think a lot of such things that the AppView approach allows will be very hard or impossible to do in Mastodon (although on the other hand, in practice a big % of the Fediverse is on one server mastodon.social, which makes a lot of these things work almost as well as on Bluesky, but it's also not really what you're arguing for…)

2026-01-19 00:38:20 UTC

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While the AT approach gives you the benefits of everything outside your circles also being accessible in one place, like:
- custom feeds with all posts from anyone matching some set of keywords
- global trending topics and popular posts
- global search as you mentioned
- hashtag feeds with actually every post on the network tagged with this hashtag
- looking at anyone's profile and seeing their past content
- being able to always like/reply/RT anyone's post (doesn't always work here)

2026-01-19 00:31:32 UTC

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If you only want to view content from accounts you've explicitly followed (and only posted after you've followed them), then I think the AP architecture is more optimal for this use case… (maybe ignoring the "DDOS effect" of having tens/hundreds of thousands of followers on a large number of different instances that you'd need to send every post to).

2026-01-18 22:39:24 UTC

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It seems that Khamenei himself admitted that "thousands" have been killed, and he's more likely to make it appear smaller than it is https://www.npr.org/2026/01/16/g-s1-106345/iran-protests-cleric-ayatollah-ahmad-khatami-trump-threat

2026-01-18 22:10:50 UTC

https://www.thetimes.com/world/middle-east/article/iran-young-protesters-news-nsdztp5t2 :((((
Full article here: https://archive.ph/5PGuN, but don't read if you don't want to get very sad and angry 😞
#iran

2026-01-18 18:34:50 UTC

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Not necessarily - if you have a server designed to index the whole network but serve 1000 users actually using it (reading data from it), then it might work just as well for those 1000 users as what Bluesky is running

2026-01-18 18:25:15 UTC

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Nope, but they have a very custom setup that's meant to support millions of DAU users, and none of the current or near future independent installations is going to target anything close to that size - this might happen one day but it's probably years away

2026-01-18 18:20:35 UTC

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Rudy says he "needed to buy a $14K OVH Cloud instance", but I honestly don't know if that's one-time or per year (or per month??) or what… But it's been done for $200/mo too (https://whtwnd.com/futur.blue/3ls7sbvpsqc2w), though that was a prototype and you definitely need something more robust for production use by many people
https://martianbase.net/system/media_attachments/files/115/917/485/452/248/878/original/c409aa2423ec714e.png

2026-01-18 16:31:05 UTC

Blacksky's independent AppView is starting to be usable:
#bluesky #atproto
https://martianbase.net/system/media_attachments/files/115/917/046/000/733/316/original/8f2002d987609209.png
https://martianbase.net/system/media_attachments/files/115/917/045/989/738/799/original/e1dff6d316a0c376.png

2026-01-08 18:29:04 UTC

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We're not fully there yet I'm afraid, AFAIK the alternative AppViews haven't yet gone beyond experiments phase. I don't think Blacksky has launched theirs yet publicly. There is a fork of the client you can use which loads data from PDSes directly (RedDwarf), but that's a bit of a hack.

2026-01-08 16:39:43 UTC

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Is there a "Discourse" about this here rn?…

2026-01-02 17:18:46 UTC

Mastodon people: #Bluesky forces their algorithms on you so they can manipulate you for their nefarious right-wing capitalist purposes
Reality: Bluesky promotes a third party algorithmic feed competing with their own (run by one dude on his desktop PC) from their official account so that more people know about and use the alternatives
https://martianbase.net/system/media_attachments/files/115/826/638/205/415/407/original/31921bbcd4e0eb7a.png

2025-10-24 18:00:29 UTC

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To be clear, this is very different from Twitter, because 1) if you remove it, it never ever comes back to your pinned tabs, and 2) for better or worse, it's a much much simpler algorithm than on Twitter. But it is a default, and defaults are powerful.

2025-10-24 17:55:05 UTC

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Yeah, IIRC the default was switched for new users around… May/June 2024 I think? I have mixed feelings about this myself tbh (also on whether it actually serves the intended purpose well)

2025-10-13 22:54:16 UTC

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I think looking for similarity between ATProto relays and Fedi relays just leads to confusion, because imho they serve very different roles: one is a critical piece of the architecture, and the other is just an optional tool to let you see more content than otherwise… I wrote a bit about this in my blog post here: https://mackuba.eu/2025/08/20/introduction-to-atproto/#relay
https://martianbase.net/system/media_attachments/files/115/369/314/209/208/291/original/d585b0d6b3fdb853.png

2025-10-13 22:49:55 UTC

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I think it's also e.g. for hashtags - for example, on my personal instance, if I click on a hashtag # swiftlang, I see 2 posts from the last week, while on https://mastodon.social/tags/swiftlang I see over 20. One of the two is from someone I follow, and the other is from a person that someone I follow replied to. This makes following hashtags completely pointless on small instances like mine, because I mostly just see the posts I've already seen there. So a Fedi relay can fix that.

2025-09-30 01:47:49 UTC

Info about working around the #Bluesky age verification which was now enabled in Ohio: https://martianbase.net/@mackuba/115290710120264679

2025-09-27 20:02:40 UTC

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Yeah, it's fair - though it also makes it impossible to build many useful tools that are possible on Bluesky, e.g. feeds in that form as they are there, where you can make a feed with pictures of cats or moss or whatever that anyone is posting, or any mentions of terms related to iOS development that aren't explicitly tagged, wouldn't really be possible to build here

2025-09-27 17:59:06 UTC

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One possible problem with that is that even if that happened, this would mean that when one random person follows you from Bluesky, all your future posts would become visible in the open on a public website and the global firehose and to the 30M+ Bluesky users. From what I know about Mastodon users, a lot of them would probably not like that… (since a lot of them very loudly objected specifically to that when Snarfed wanted Bridgy to work this way at first).

2025-09-27 17:46:49 UTC

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I honestly don't remember when was the last time I saw a single right-wing extremist on Bluesky…

2025-09-26 19:35:00 UTC

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And when I commented there that I was just thinking about building such thing for the Mac, I was quoted "hey look, this tech bro wants to violate our consent, block him".
Meanwhile, on Bluesky I have an index of all posts on the site, which I use to run feeds, stats, directories, search and so on, which many people use, and no one even thought to say a bad word about it. I couldn't do anything like that here.

2025-09-26 19:32:33 UTC

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There were some threads about "Searchtodon" which was a tool that let you search for things in the posts you saw on your timeline recently, and the guy who built it got harassed for "violating people's consent", because on Fedi you're not supposed to ever save other people's posts. (And that wasn't the only such case)

2025-09-26 19:30:46 UTC

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I considered building things for Fedi for a short period of time, until I saw what happens to people who try to build things for Fedi… (a crowd with torches and pitchforks). And then ATProto showed up shortly later and welcomed me with open arms…

2025-09-26 02:05:28 UTC

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Fair! But we can't resist, Mastodon saying that works like a red cloth on a bull on us 🫠

2025-09-26 01:58:25 UTC

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We've got, uh… feeds… 😇

2025-09-23 23:59:41 UTC

https://docs.bsky.app/blog/taking-at-to-ietf
#bluesky #atproto

2025-09-19 09:36:24 UTC

#Bluesky is making a big step towards making #atproto independent from them: they're forming an independent organization in Switzerland to run the PLC directory 👀 https://docs.bsky.app/blog/plc-directory-org

2025-09-07 21:09:54 UTC

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The initiative came from [@thisismissem](https://hachyderm.io/@thisismissem ), who is mostly active in the Mastodon/Fediverse ecosystem and not in ATProto - are you suggesting that she has some secret knowledge about Bluesky's business plans and is working with them?… 🫠

2025-09-04 22:56:51 UTC

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Wouldn't you think that Masnick has some insight into how much money Bluesky has and is spending?

2025-08-17 20:08:28 UTC

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It also kinda sucks that currently the request for bridging is only ever sent once to a given person (across all requesters), as I understand… I have a bunch of people here on Mastodon who I'd love to follow from Bluesky, but they aren't even noticing my direct DMs or comments, probably not because they object, but just because they miss them…

2025-08-10 20:50:31 UTC

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cc @npub17m8…rsw8

2025-07-28 00:04:20 UTC

The iPad multitasking is one of the few things in the new appleOSes that I'm really excited about, this looks so good!
(Also, it's funny to watch how the iPad is somehow turning into the Mac faster than the Mac is turning into an iPad 🙃) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUOA2Fj-lKw

2025-07-21 18:46:03 UTC

Here we go… "French authorities are already progressing with efforts to force certain social media sites — including X, Reddit, #Bluesky and #Mastodon — to introduce age verification, by classifying them as pornographic websites." 😑 https://www.politico.eu/article/emmanuel-macron-social-media-ban-minors-france/
#AgeVerification

2025-07-14 21:28:43 UTC

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How is Jack Dorsey controlling Bluesky? He's not involved in it, not a part of the team, he's not on the board, doesn't have any shares, and doesn't even have an account there anymore.

2025-07-14 20:51:34 UTC

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Which billionaires are controlling Bluesky specifically?

2025-06-30 15:15:35 UTC

While I was lying in the hammock yesterday (clicking on my iPhone), I started thinking about the current state of the "Twitter diaspora", the cross-posting, bridging and separation… and I ended up with this blog post 😅
TLDR: let's try to settle on the open networks, Bluesky & Fedi, let's connect them well, and let's move away from Twitter.
https://mackuba.eu/2025/06/30/socials-2025/
#Bluesky #Mastodon #Bridgy #BridgyFed

2025-06-19 02:02:54 UTC

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definitely not looking forward to "Slaughterbots" IRL…

2025-06-12 14:09:25 UTC

Periodical reminder if you aren't bridging your account to #Bluesky with #Bridgy - follow @npub1pqr…2sck to turn it on 🌉 It's not perfect, but it works well enough, and there are people on the other side who would like to follow some accounts from here. 🦋🦣
https://fed.brid.gy/docs

2025-05-25 21:58:56 UTC

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They have this tool for debugging https://bsky-debug.app/handle?handle=stux.me and it seems to be returning the new one…

2025-05-25 21:41:31 UTC

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Hmm… might be a bug with something getting cached forever… I think I've seen something like this before, but I don't remember how it was resolved :\

2025-05-22 16:15:19 UTC

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About the opposite for me re: replies on M & B ;)

2025-05-16 16:00:17 UTC

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Yeah, like I wrote here, I think it's probably more confusing than helpful to make the term "Fediverse" include Bluesky… https://martianbase.net/@mackuba/114484050397122882

2025-05-12 18:40:55 UTC

I've got my own Bluesky relay now too :] https://relay.feeds.blue
Ok, technically it's a not a full-network one - I added ~2000 known self-hosted PDSes there, but *without* Bluesky-run ones. Which means it has like 2 orders of magnitude less traffic than a full one… But if you're self-hosting a PDS, you should see your records streaming through there, if you either send a requestCrawl there or my PDS indexer has found you.
#bluesky #atproto

2025-04-30 22:30:23 UTC

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Tell me how is it not insane when someone who has an account for an open source project on a previously perfectly normal, open source focused server starts getting messages "you better move, or you're a nazi" out of the blue… (https://fosstodon.org/@owncast/114405142658691771)

2025-04-30 22:27:00 UTC

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So realistically, the only way to be on the Fedi and not be risking being hit by a ricochet when your admin: a) is discovered to be a bad person, b) gets into some arguments with other instances, or c) gets tired of running the instance 3 years later, is to run your own server. But this also has a lot of downsides (like not seeing anything interesting in search or hashtag feeds, plus the responsibility of maintaining the server).

2025-04-30 22:22:48 UTC

https://fediversereport.com/fediverse-report-114/
One of the many insane aspects of how the Fediverse works for me, is that people apparently apply "collective responsibility" for the newly discovered views of a server admin (who stepped down quickly) to all the previously completely unaware users on their server… who are now expected to quickly find a new place to move their accounts to (losing their old posts! since there's no post migration here). How does this make any sense? 😐 @npub1l2k…6m2l
#fosstodon
https://martianbase.net/system/media_attachments/files/114/429/233/685/101/260/original/3026d1370bdacf4f.png

2025-04-25 12:36:41 UTC

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yeah, we self-hosters could talk to each other - I think AppView and relay were fine, just PDSes went down
https://martianbase.net/system/media_attachments/files/114/398/632/159/418/513/original/502846cb4508573c.png

2025-04-25 09:41:02 UTC

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Bluesky-hosted PDSes all went down (DDOS apparently), people who self-host PDSes could still talk to each other

2025-04-25 01:57:08 UTC

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Yes.
https://martianbase.net/system/media_attachments/files/114/396/117/531/589/372/original/5e4982677a287137.png

2025-03-13 22:53:04 UTC

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It's a proposal to add an extension/field to the protocol to let people explicitly express consent or lack of consent for a few different types of uses of their data. Something that could very well be a thing in ActivityPub too, if it isn't already. Sort of like the #NoBot hashtags people put in the bio, but in a more organized format.

2025-03-13 22:49:14 UTC

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They didn't say that anywhere because it's not what they're doing

2025-02-01 17:19:42 UTC

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Man, I feel like everyone is there

2025-01-25 23:39:53 UTC

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Jesus… these people are monsters 😞

2025-01-09 15:08:08 UTC

Does any of the popular iOS clients have a feature like: "let me browse a hashtag feed, *but* not on my instance, where there's no content, but from mastodon.social, which has the most complete view of the network - but let me reply/like from my account"?…
#Mastodon

2024-11-17 01:59:47 UTC

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there is an algorithm in Discover and in some third party feeds, there's no AI algorithm in Following

2024-11-17 01:57:02 UTC

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I don't know what exactly you're seeing, but it works like I said, it doesn't hide anything from you just because "algorithm" or whatever

2024-11-17 01:52:31 UTC

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Following shows every single top post (non-reply) from every person you follow, unless it's filtered out by a muted word, just like on Mastodon

2024-11-15 22:31:02 UTC

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I won't argue that it isn't as decentralized in practice as AP right now, I'm just saying that "they promise that in future you might be able to run your own relay" is misleading, because you can do that today

2024-11-15 22:11:31 UTC

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you can absolutely run your own relay and people have already done that for testing at least

2024-11-15 02:47:55 UTC

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you can completely remove both default feeds from the top tabs and add only e.g. a "cat pics" feed as your only feed, if you want to :)

2024-11-03 17:16:33 UTC

🙃
https://martianbase.net/system/media_attachments/files/113/420/153/183/298/541/original/bb81590a6c4af91a.jpeg

2024-11-01 20:40:52 UTC

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Ryan was basically harassed into agreeing to the demands of that group to make the tool less useful so they stop harassing him…
(note, I'm not talking about anyone who had concerns, rather about those who voiced their concerns very aggressively to the point of insulting)

2024-10-30 02:49:46 UTC

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There was a thread here https://github.com/snarfed/bridgy-fed/issues/835 back in February, when the bridge's author announced he was preparing to launch it, with some Mastodon users saying very, very nasty things to him there…

2024-10-27 20:02:15 UTC

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"Every account is an NFT" kinda sounds like it's a shitpost tbh… Poe's Law strikes again

2024-10-23 13:18:53 UTC

Best review :) @npub1xse…lgk3
#bluesky
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2024-10-18 00:02:55 UTC

Oh holy shit, it's true, it's more than when Brazil joined 😳 and more diverse this time
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:fb3iwxg23jziddgbtsixx3zu/post/3l6qgcf5yhq24
#bluesky
https://martianbase.net/system/media_attachments/files/113/325/491/825/331/955/original/cda72517a8a80e80.jpeg

2024-10-16 15:24:04 UTC

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But how many of those 15M are active accounts? Around 1 mln monthly as fast as I know, unless you have better data.

2024-10-14 18:19:35 UTC

Some interesting thoughts from Bluesky dev @npub1a6y…aeng on the possibility (or not) of Bluesky implementing bridging/integration with AP natively: https://social.coop/@bnewbold/113304652949536999
#Bluesky #BlueskyBridge #Bridgy #BridgyFed

2024-09-23 23:02:43 UTC

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You can use third party clients, the API is completely open - there aren't nearly as many as Mastodon ones, but there are some third party devs building things, e.g. there's https://www.skeetsapp.com or https://deck.blue.
The custom server thing has been usable for a few months now, but it doesn't work with Mastodon servers since it's a completely different, incompatible protocol.

2024-09-23 22:47:05 UTC

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It's funny that these are two changes going in kind of opposite directions - if hiding posts is useless since they're public (which… has some point), then… why make likes harder to access on the other hand? Unless there isn't much logic to it and it's really all about what is more convenient to one person and his fans… 🙃

2024-09-19 16:04:40 UTC

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I'm gonna have a list & search of Bsky->Masto and Masto->Bsky bridged accounts at some point on my site, but it's waiting for a better day when something else isn't prioritized… 😉

2024-09-15 10:44:17 UTC

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Running one is a bit non-trivial, you need to either set up this Ozone service somewhere on your server (if you want this to be at least partially manual and use their moderation UI), or you need to figure out the API and build some custom code for this if you want a purely automated one

2024-09-15 10:30:04 UTC

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Hmm… I think this is a good starting point to the whole idea: https://bsky.social/about/blog/03-12-2024-stackable-moderation
To use it, you just go to the profile of a labeller service like https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:qezlipqc4yfk2lebu7533zyr and you click the purple "Subscribe" button, then below you can choose how you want to handle each label (Off = ignore, Hide = hide post/user completely, Warn/Badge = show with a badge). You can also access this through the settings (Moderation - Advanced section).

2024-09-12 17:58:22 UTC

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I don't have any crypto mutelist

2024-09-12 13:46:49 UTC

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To be honest I haven't actually worked with iOS/Mac things much in the last 1-2 years, Bluesky kind of diverted my attention 😅 I had a small app on the App Store (now actually suspended because I haven't updated it in too long) and I was tinkering with a few more, but the last year I was mostly working with Ruby and JS, building some open source / server-side things related to Bluesky.

2024-09-12 13:43:10 UTC

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Hey! I've been working with it on and off since ~2009 - I started playing with it on the side when I got my first Mac and iPhone. At some point I went freelance and worked full time as Mac or iOS dev, and then I started playing with my own things.

2024-09-11 20:41:13 UTC

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But you can log in from another web client like Skeetdeck to a Bluesky-hosted PDS, or from bsky.app to a self-hosted PDS

2024-09-11 20:40:23 UTC

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Yeah, there's an artificial limit of 10 accounts right now enforced at the Relay so things don't get out of hand too quickly before shit's fully ready (it can be raised on request, but I think only Bridgy has did that so far).
Oh and one more thing, web UI isn't really integrated with the AppView, it's just a web-based JS client in the same way as Elk is for Mastodon. It's technically not any more privileged that any third party app, it's just "the official one".

2024-09-11 20:32:27 UTC

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So, correction, *all* of your data has its "original location" at your PDS - all kinds of records (profile, posts, likes, follows, non-Bluesky records like WhiteWind blog posts), "blobs" like attached images, and even videos now. You can even put non-Bsky records like whtwnd posts on your Bluesky-hosted PDS.
They aren't usually directly served from there (data is served from the AppView, media from Bluesky CDN), but they can always be fetched from the original source.

2024-09-11 17:08:42 UTC

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Yeah, so it's not a bad explanation, maybe a bit biased ;)
The key is that the architecture is very different, and there isn't a direct equivalent of instances. There are PDSes, but they do much less than Fedi instances, and they also don't directly talk to (federate with) each other. The data flows from PDSes to relay(s) to AppView(s) and to clients.

2024-09-11 15:36:59 UTC

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😏

2024-09-06 15:42:49 UTC

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I think what Justin meant here was that the product and the protocol/architecture were designed together by the same team, with a feedback loop between them, instead of building on an existing protocol that someone else designed much earlier