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Re: Bluesky Protocol Services

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Blockchain has some solid properties, don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.

What baby? DNS doesn't have the double spend problem. Why is the blockchain good for this?

An authenticated chain similar to the crts for TLS certificates.

Re: Bluesky Protocol Services

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Sort of on a tangent to the actual content of the page, but what documentation system/CMS is this particular web page UI? It seems very fast and relatively uncluttered for the menu on the left side, content pane, top horizontal menu bar.

No sure I agree on fast. At least on mobile the sidebar has an show/hide slide animation that takes a sizeable fraction of a second. In fact is one of the slowest animations for this I have seen. I disable animations entirely on devices I use where possible. They just waste time and that adds up if you use something regularly.

It should take time for you too appreciate the main text becoming blurry and unreadable and to prepare your brain for the new batch of text

Re: Bluesky Protocol Services

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I've built my own client for Twitter. I'm using a library that a random guy maintains. It has its problems, but all of them can be worked around, and overall it feels solid, especially considering the fact that it's done by a single person.

Then I had to add bsky support when everyone and their mother migrared there. I used the atproto Python library and holy smokes, whener I need to touch that part of the code I feel sad.

Re: Bluesky Protocol Services

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I've built my own client for Twitter. I'm using a library that a random guy maintains. It has its problems, but all of them can be worked around, and overall it feels solid, especially considering the fact that it's done by a single person. Then I had to add bsky support when everyone and their mother migrared there. I used the atproto Python library and holy smokes, whener I need to touch that part of the code I fee…

> I've built my own client for Twitter.

Didn't they terminate free API access? How does your client work?

Re: Bluesky Protocol Services

#35

I've built my own client for Twitter. I'm using a library that a random guy maintains. It has its problems, but all of them can be worked around, and overall it feels solid, especially considering the fact that it's done by a single person. Then I had to add bsky support when everyone and their mother migrared there. I used the atproto Python library and holy smokes, whener I need to touch that part of the code I fee…

> I've built my own client for Twitter. Didn't they terminate free API access? How does your client work?

It still has an internal GraphQL API. How would the official web app and mobile apps work without an API?

Re: Bluesky Protocol Services

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post #10

I wonder if it would be a good idea to remake DNS on top of bluesky. The basic idea is that, if you own a domain name, you post DNS updates in a bluesky feed. The firehose itself is authoritative. DNS servers sit downstream of the firehose. All the updates to domain names get written into a database, and they essentially just respond to queries hitting that database. This would let anyone (with enough bandwidth) run…

How do you prove you own a domain with no records?

Re: Bluesky Protocol Services

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post #2

Sort of on a tangent to the actual content of the page, but what documentation system/CMS is this particular web page UI? It seems very fast and relatively uncluttered for the menu on the left side, content pane, top horizontal menu bar.

Looks like astro starlight

Re: Bluesky Protocol Services

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post #2

Sort of on a tangent to the actual content of the page, but what documentation system/CMS is this particular web page UI? It seems very fast and relatively uncluttered for the menu on the left side, content pane, top horizontal menu bar.

Looks like astro starlight

There’s a next-route-announcer tag on the page, so probably not Astro. (Can’t recommend Astro Starlight enough though!)

Re: Bluesky Protocol Services

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post #30

Neat protocol, shame about the users. Also the VC-backed funding for this infrastructure will run out eventually. It's not self-sustaining, and Bluesky have no viable route to profitability.

[Bluesky proves that for social media, no matter what your technology stack, capabilities, or mission, if your community is awful, growth will never follow.](https://blueskyfeeds.com/bluesky-user-growth?t=3m)

Re: Bluesky Protocol Services

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post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I've built my own client for Twitter. Didn't they terminate free API access? How does your client work?

It still has an internal GraphQL API. How would the official web app and mobile apps work without an API?

Right but that doesn’t mean anything about authorisation. If you’re using a key you ripped from an official app you could easily be blocked tomorrow. Makes the effort considerably less worthwhile.
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