Firesky – The Bluesky Firehose • Hacker News Board

Re: Firesky – The Bluesky Firehose

#21

Post by max_ » Sun, May 07, 2023, 5:48 AM UTC

Could someone please give me a blue sky invite? My email is in the book.

Re: Firesky – The Bluesky Firehose

#22

Post by jamilton » Sun, May 07, 2023, 6:01 AM UTC

Neat. Not sure what negatives people are seeing? Looks like people communicating to me. Mostly English, but some Japanese, Arabic, Chinese, Korean, and Portuguese too, that's interesting.

Re: Firesky – The Bluesky Firehose

#23

Post by yawnxyz » Sun, May 07, 2023, 6:05 AM UTC

This looks so cool! Are there any resources on how to build your own systems to post to the protocol, and read from it? Would be so useful as a generalized automated events messenger service

Re: Firesky – The Bluesky Firehose

#24

Post by sthatipamala » Sun, May 07, 2023, 6:41 AM UTC

Would be cool to hook this up into a Bluesky network graph like [0] and pulse the node every time someone posts. Some interesting patterns might emerge.

[0] https://bsky.jazco.dev/

Re: Firesky – The Bluesky Firehose

#25

Post by grey_earthling » Sun, May 07, 2023, 10:19 AM UTC

Presumably this can't be a complete firehose — just the data known to a finite list of popular instances.

Re: Firesky – The Bluesky Firehose

#26

Post by capableweb » Sun, May 07, 2023, 10:20 AM UTC

grey_earthling wrote: post #25

Presumably this can't be a complete firehose — just the data known to a finite list of popular instances.

Yes, everything. There is only one instance as of now.

The activity of bluesky is highly variable, seems to be very US based right now at least.

Re: Firesky – The Bluesky Firehose

#27

Post by xelia » Sun, May 07, 2023, 10:26 AM UTC

i love this. gives me a peek into the bluesky world while waiting for an invite.

Re: Firesky – The Bluesky Firehose

#28

Post by grey_earthling » Sun, May 07, 2023, 10:28 AM UTC

capableweb wrote: post #26

grey_earthling wrote: post #25

Presumably this can't be a complete firehose — just the data known to a finite list of popular instances.

Yes, everything. There is only one instance as of now. The activity of bluesky is highly variable, seems to be very US based right now at least.

I thought BlueSky was a protocol, not just a service. How can there be only one instance of a protocol?

Re: Firesky – The Bluesky Firehose

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Post by capableweb » Sun, May 07, 2023, 10:30 AM UTC

grey_earthling wrote: post #28

capableweb wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, everything. There is only one instance as of now. The activity of bluesky is highly variable, seems to be very US based right now at least.

I thought BlueSky was a protocol, not just a service. How can there be only one instance of a protocol?

Bluesky is the app/one UI. AT Protocol is the protocol. Currently there is only one widely used implementation of the protocol.

Probably because they're still working out exactly how federation will be added to the protocol.

Re: Firesky – The Bluesky Firehose

#30

Post by capableweb » Sun, May 07, 2023, 10:32 AM UTC

mkl95 wrote: post #15

Looks like a good use case for Phoenix Liveview

Or literally anything that can interactively add and remove elements from a stream. Seems like WebSocket + vanilla JS DOM operations is good enough.