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Firesky – The Bluesky Firehose

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Re: Firesky – The Bluesky Firehose

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Post by anigbrowl »

nologic01 wrote: post #7

I have come to despise and be really tired of timeline firehoses. If you are spending precious brain cells to "reinvent" social, consider something more adapted to the animal you want to help communicate digitally. Show me a firehose that has taken onboard the bitter lessons of decades of failed social media.

I like firehoses for doing network diagrams, albeit at the API level. In UI terms and endlessly scrolling feed is the equivalent of a log fire video - or a dumpster fire, depending on your perspective.

Re: Firesky – The Bluesky Firehose

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Post by nologic01 »

anigbrowl wrote: post #11
nologic01 wrote: post #7

I have come to despise and be really tired of timeline firehoses. If you are spending precious brain cells to "reinvent" social, consider something more adapted to the animal you want to help communicate digitally. Show me a firehose that has taken onboard the bitter lessons of decades of failed social media.

I like firehoses for doing network diagrams, albeit at the API level. In UI terms and endlessly scrolling feed is the equivalent of a log fire video - or a dumpster fire, depending on your perspective.

Technically you can mold firehoses into other metaphors at the UI level (whether deterministically or algorithmically). And vice versa, any system that processes data in real time can be shown as a firehose.

But as they say, biases in technology creep in so early on, they are not even considered as such. If your main mental model for online communication is an amorphous agitating mass of delocalized entities that exchange tiny bits of information then this is what you are going to build and this is what you are going to get.

Re: Firesky – The Bluesky Firehose

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Post by johnspurlock »

ur-whale wrote: post #16

What is it? I only see a boring gray page.

firesky.tv dev here - do you have javascript enabled?

If so, you should see everything posted to Bluesky in one view, like a massive chatroom.

Use the filter button to monitor for keywords/accounts etc. To me, this is probably the more long-term useful and non-brain-destroying use of the site.

Very much inspired by Twitter in the early days

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