I’m not really read up on it, but I think Bluesky and Twitter are not really operating in the same space, and certainly not in the same way. Bluesky is building a protocol and selling a hosting platform. I started thinking about that model years ago, making a social protocol makes sense and it’s time for a Mastodon for the masses.
Twitter has built an incredibly resilient and scalable real-time message delivery over all IPN, email, and cell endpoints the world has to offer, and world class search, data, and ad stack. It used to make news when Twitter when down. It still does, and it set a record in July of being down for 45 mins. It doesn’t break at 1 billion messages/day. I forgot what the fail whale looks like.
If Bluesky the protocol rocks but the open source hosting sucks, Bluesky the business will do great. I’m sure their team can build a magnificent stack. I worry the business will be greedy, but the protocol will be widely adopted and centrally governed.
Connect with anyone on any service that's using the AT Protocol.
Algorithmic choice
Control how you see the world through an open market of algorithms.
Portable accounts
Change hosts without losing your content, your follows, or your identity
Twitter is crippled with debt and bursting with defectors. Bluesky or anyone else who wants to win the future needs to handle mass migration, user engagement, scaling issues, support, and needs to be able to do so quickly.
I love the idea of a marketplace for algorithms, and I think there will be a new class of moderation filters as a service. Perhaps there is a community baseline, and tools to make your own, but mostly people will pay to eliminate noise and curate their experience.
Just replied to your latest tweet with alternative I'm building (https://sqwok.im). It's a slight twist where each post includes a live public chatroom instead of the reply model Twitter uses. Slightly different experience geared for fluid conversation.
Thanks! SQL Notebook uses .NET 6 and a custom integration with SQLite. SQLite offers a few extension points, mainly virtual tables and custom functions, and SQL Notebook takes advantage of them to provide its added functionality.
It probably represents 8-10 months of infrequent nights and weekends. I originally wrote a proof of concept in 2016 and finally picked it back up and polished it for release a couple months ago. The .NET ecosystem is in much better shape now than it was in 2016. This is all WinForms; Microsoft has done a good job of bringing support for WinForms into the latest platform. Supporting high-DPI was unpleasant but it is possible in WinForms.
You were unlucky with the Show HN post in that it didn't generate more interest. Don't let that dissuade you -- there's so much luck in what generates interest at a particular time. It really is an exceptionally useful app, one that I would have had great use for at different times over the years.
We were recently moved into a temporary space where there's a dozen or so people in a 40x40 room at any one point.
A lot of them have meetings with our business partners, which requires a lot of talking on the phone.
This noise isn't background noise, it isn't random white noise, it's noise that diverts your attention constantly because you may know what they are talking about. It's not something you can tune out.
I'm currently googling for noise blocking headphones.
~10 years ago I wanted to be able to take advantage of watching video on this newfangled iPhone thing, but most content was not yet readily available or purchasable in a format that could be played - specifically I wanted to watch The Daily Show and Colbert Report.
I had a chain of apps and scripts which would watch for a forum torrents of those, download them, use handbrake to convert them, add them to my iTunes library, then generate new .torrent files and post the mobile friendly versions back to the forum (gotta keep that ratio up).
Things are much easier and less legally sketchy nowadays :)
