null0pointer7 days ago
A lot of commenters here are having their minds blown by this. And while I also love this I get the sense that many others here are maybe too young to remember that this kind of open access to data used to exist for lots websites. It inspired companion sites and loads of creativity. I find it tragic really, what the internet has become. I hope federated, and even more-so p2p, protocols take significant foothold on the internet and help revive this spirit of the web. The corpo-web is so fucking boring.
paulgb7 days ago
It’s worth noting that twitter itself owes a lot of its popularity to its openness in the early days. In the early days there were third-party clients, RSS feeds, XMPP support, etc. You could post from a curl command in a cron job, leading to all kinds of interesting automated feeds. Then they walked it all back in the early 2010s.
I like that Bluesky’s federation model makes it harder for them to do an “open platform” bait-and-switch like Twitter did.
AshamedCaptain7 days ago
> I like that Bluesky’s federation model makes it harder for them to do an “open platform” bait-and-switch like Twitter did.
Why would it? They can still lock everything down and few Bluesky users will even notice. This is similar to what Twitter did, or what Google Chat did, etc. Compare this to other federation platforms where a server that locks itself down loses access to a huge chunk of the network, once the other servers reciprocate.
diggan7 days ago
> Why would it?
Since migrating your personal data was a thing they thought about since day one, migrating to another network than the current one would be way easier than any centralized service and also easier than ActivityPub.
Seems there is one piece of the puzzle missing yet ("AppViews") in ATProto to be able to run completely independent, but seems they're currently working on getting that in place now.
shafyy6 days ago
You can host your personal data, but as long as Bluesky Social, PBC is running the main Relay and AppView, and there's no easy way for Relays to talk to each other (like e.g. it works in Mastodon), they are in reality a centralized service.
Oh yes, and they are the only ones owning and developing AT Protocol, which makes it much more a currently-open-sourced protocol rather than a standard that is jointly developed by the industry.
rakoo6 days ago
The big central place is still the PLC directory that effectively means all accounts are centralized at BlueSky, even if your posts are not. They haven't planned to make it any decentralized in the future.
YetAnotherNick6 days ago
Nothing technical is preventing any federated platform to stop sharing the content with its peer. Only thing that prevents it is if there are multiple big peer and they can't afford a network partition, which is not the case with bluesky. Eventually VC's money will run dry and they don't have any solution for this.
AshamedCaptain7 days ago
You could still migrate all _your_ data to another service in Twitter quite easily, and most definitely you could in Google Chat. This did not change things.
diggan7 days ago
> You could still migrate all _your_ data to another service in Twitter quite easily
Yeah? I don't remember being able to migrate from/to Twitter and taking followers/following etc with you without having to ask/request others to do something too.
AshamedCaptain7 days ago
But I'm guessing that you'll also have to request your followers to use a different AppView if Bluesky did a Twitter.
glenstein6 days ago
>In the early days there were third-party clients, RSS feeds, XMPP support, etc.
Right. This is something I keep pointing out in threads about RSS. Some people will say RSS never left. Well, it left Twitter for one. Google News and Craigslist for others.
I almost wonder, to GP's point, if people have just completely forgotten all of this, which is why they think nothing was lost.
echelon6 days ago
The 2000s Internet felt way more innovative than the one we have today, despite all of the WASM, WebGPU, JIT optimizations, and other technologies that have been developed in more recent years.
We had torrents, open data, open protocols, and people were sharing data and remixing it freely. Mountains of stuff like this Bluesky demo was released every single day. We had link aggregators to point to the cool things that were happening, and we even had tools that let you pipe data sources between various APIs to enrich and recombine things easily.
Platforms stopped this. Facebook, Google, and even Apple put an end to the wildly evolutionary behavior by delivering a canned experience to the masses.
We need a return to P2P where single platform silos and their army of product managers don't shape how we interact with technology and the bulk flow of information.
1024core6 days ago
> The 2000s Internet felt way more innovative than the one we have today
Because it seems like this stuff is taught in Management 101 in all of the business schools: once you establish yourself with all this talk about "openness", etc. then the only way to succeed is by creating a walled garden, either through abuse of your monopoly position or by regulatory capture.
Cases in point: OpenAI _and_ Anthropic both pushing for regulation of AI, now that they have a dominant position.
I swear, the moment MBAs get involved, they try the same crap everywhere.
threeseed6 days ago
It's a common trope to blame MBAs for all the ills in the world.
But the reality is that having a moat and how to defend it is a fundamental strategy that every CEO is expected to know. Because it will be one of the first things you get asked from YC, investors etc.
And using regulation to lock out competitors definitely did not start with OpenAI and Anthropic.
1024core6 days ago
> And using regulation to lock out competitors definitely did not start with OpenAI and Anthropic.
That's what I'm saying: it started with the MBAs.
larodi6 days ago
Indeed.
Question is whether this all that was in the 90s can again be relevant for the young who grew with TikTok, insta and fb.
I don’t have the answer, only doubts…
Now with GPTs more than ever people can regain their web presence. But do they do it? I guess not as much as one would expect.
You may say we need to go p2p again and perhaps Tim Berns Lee actually meant p2p with the HTML, but are people aware of this daring need?
hn727746 days ago
I see 2 way to do this. A company (and PM) sees demand for the feature and they include it, ot it is forced by regulation.
A lot of these companies that originally had open standards formed with huge amounts of VC money and they prioritized growth over everything else. Then when they reached a certain scale, investors valued profitability and they slowly squeezed and monetized users until all of those open standards features were gone.
threeseed6 days ago
This is just revisionist history.
We still have all the tools you talk about today. But with the benefit of much simpler languages and SDKs and tools like LLMs to help generate code. I've seen children learn programming far faster with Swift Playground on their iPad than I had to with C++ books.
And these sort of canned experience are what helped bring technology to everyone. Which was always supposed to be the main goal.
echelon6 days ago
It's a little bit of both in this case.
Kids are all over Discord, Roblox, Minecraft, and VRchat. They're writing scripts and mods, and that's great. They're probably having a blast and a good number of them are learning a lot.
But they're doing all of these things in someone else's walled garden, on buttoned up platforms that typically constrain what they can accomplish. There are fewer degrees of freedom and a lot less ownership in the work they're doing.
These platforms also cost kids money. They use toxic gotcha mechanics and peer pressure to monetize. This part is strictly worse.
It's a lot different carving out your own clubhouse and culture when you're renting. Especially when you're made to speak a certain language and abide by a rigid set of rules.
cma6 days ago
They are a public benefit corporation that use that as a selling point but then don't disclose their charter. That seems really shady to me, but less than what twitter has become.
ideashower6 days ago
I’m struggling to recall some of those early fun accounts. Do you remember any interesting automated feeds from Twitter’s early days?
paulgb6 days ago
I used to run a cron job that would scrape my university's daily bulletin and post every day right after it was updated. It may have been the first “presence” the university had on twitter. I remember following things like weather stations that had automated accounts, as well.
blitzar6 days ago
https://techcrunch.com/2009/12/12/newlywed-sex-tweets/
Best Man Rigs Newlyweds' Bed To Tweet During Sex.
They’re on the job! #1 – Action commenced at 12.21GMT. Weight: 84KG.
They’re off the job! #1 – Action concluded at 12.24GMT. Duration: 3 m.15 s. Frenzy Index: 8 (scary). Judge’s Comment: “Is that it?”
FranOntanaya6 days ago
irssi had a plugin to read and post to Twitter from IRC, it was neat.
bloopernova6 days ago
A long long time ago, LiveJournal used to display all new user-uploaded images in a firehose type page.
It was a fascinating glimpse into the shared lives of people all over the world. It was definitely from a simpler time; there's no way something like that would be available now due to the violence/abuse material that gets uploaded.
weberer6 days ago
I'm not too up to date on Twitter clones. What's the difference between this and Mastadon?
geek_at6 days ago
Mastodon has about 1 million active accounts, bluesky has 12 and you can also host your own data. Threads (by meta) has 100 million but you can't federate it yet so bluesky is the way to go currently for selfhosters and privacy advocates.
gdubs6 days ago
Mastodon is also confusing for a lot of people and when you point it out techies will appear to yell at you and tell you that "no in fact it isn't."
Whereas Bluesky has a familiar consumer app feeling to it.
Each of these sites also has a distinct vibe. Threads, for example, feels a bit like when Time Square turned into a kind of Disney property. It's clean and safe! But it also lacks a bit of soul.
threeseed6 days ago
Threads has about ~300m MAUs so far higher than 100m accounts.
And you can federate it with ActivityPub just not fully supporting it yet.
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AI_beffr6 days ago
BS is a cynical data-grab and will lock down and back-stab its users as soon as it can do so and be competitive.
threeseed6 days ago
As opposed to X, which told users it would be using their content to train Grok.
No matter which way you spin it, Bluesky is significantly better than X.
blitzar6 days ago
Tweets seem a truly terrible way to train Ai.
Bengalilol2 hours ago
In my opinion : yes. But when you think about who Elon became, I think … Yeah a truly terrible way to train an AI.
AI_beffr6 days ago
except on X you can actually say what you think.
https://x.com/search?q=bluesky%20banned&src=typed_query&f=to...
inpdx5 days ago
Elon just posted a Tweet that if you post pictures of food you can get banned. Food. It's run at the caprice of a thin-skinned Napoleon at this point.
wrboyce6 days ago
…weird
AI_beffr5 days ago
not really. its stalking. it poses a direct threat to someones safety. and people arent even supposed to have that information under the current rules... thats why its only possible to get his jets location by crowd-sourcing it. anonymity for high profile passengers is a legitimate concern, enough for the FAA to bake it into how these flights are tracked. soon this loophole will be closed and then what will you point to? how could you seriously compare this to being banned for saying something that is politically incorrect?
teddyfrozevelt5 days ago
you can't even say "cis" on twitter without the tweet getting hidden
andelink6 days ago
I can't even view that link without logging in
davidcbc6 days ago
Even if true, which I'm skeptical of, social media sites don't have to be permanent. It's no different from any other service being enshittified, just use it until it sucks and then stop.
ericjmorey6 days ago
I'm thinking that it's a cynical way to put all the data on an open network rather than a gated and paywalled one. As far as I can tell, Bluesky is still entirely funded by Twitter and that will eventually be cut off. They're betting on the Google/Mozilla type relationship to be maintained for now. They need to make the indexing service easier to replicate before that happens or the network will collapse when funds dry up.
jazzyjackson6 days ago
They have nothing to do with Twitter anymore. Last round was funded by Blockchain Capital
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consumer451op7 days ago
https://github.com/theosanderson/firehose
I just love that the open nature of Bsky is allowing people to hack things like this.
Now that their growth is crazy, let's hope that the work they did on the protocol and corp structure keeps it this way.
blitzar7 days ago
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away ... there was a twitter firehose and people loved how the open nature of twitter is allowing people to hack things ...
z3ncyberpunk4 days ago
And then they decided to not-so-openly collaborate with government regimes who sought multiple times to implement a ministry of truth and censor everyone they didn't like. So now we have to settle for poor decision making.
marginalia_nu7 days ago
Yeah I was looking into the firehose as a potential way to source to discover new domains for my search engine. Even though it didn't pan out, I really appreciate how accessible the data is.
mariusor7 days ago
I might have asked this before, but did you look at adding this type of ingestion for ActivityPub?
marginalia_nu7 days ago
Briefly, but I've come to learn there's a contingent of aggressively search-engine hostile people that has made a home on the fediverse. The federated nature of it makes it somewhat tricky to untangle the search engine friendly people from the hostile.
I don't need the inevitable DDOS:es and death threats you get when upsetting a clique of mentally ill people online.
mariusor6 days ago
You're right, I forgot about the backlash that this type of efforts got from people that don't understand the technology and just make assumptions about element visibility in the network, though maybe calling them mentally ill is a bit much.
marginalia_nu6 days ago
The sorts threatening physical violence almost certainly are. But it's a minority to be sure.
morkalork7 days ago
Why didn't it work out?
marginalia_nu7 days ago
I decided agains it because it had an incredibly bad signal to noise ratio. Almost all links I saw were either to big websites like newspapers, patreon, onlyfans; or behind url shorteners.
Dunno, I may explore it further down the line, but for now the juice didn't seem worth the squeeze.
dools7 days ago
I created a website like 10 years ago called birdmine that indexed every link you or one of your followers shared on Twitter, in a Solr search engine so you could search stuff that had been curated to an extent. It was pretty cool, I think I’m the only person that ever used it though.
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djbusby7 days ago
BSky could use a better search, or a better curation of feeds. I'm certain there is more room in the discovery play.
tholman7 days ago
Crashes like a Windows ME screensaver. Jokes aside, it's very fun to see open firehose access like this. I seem to recall that Dorsey had said that twitter limiting their api access was a mistake, hope we can keep this going.
consumer451op7 days ago
For people experiencing crashes, Theo mentioned that this will likely work: https://firehose3d.theo.io/?discardFrac=0.6
djbusby7 days ago
I was hoping it was some RegEdit hack to fix driver settings.
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willio586 days ago
If I understand correctly, the whole point of At-Proto being decentralized is that if bluesky were to shut down we’d still have access to this data. Someone else could create a client for posting and we’d be off to the races. But maybe not?
zamadatix7 days ago
I absolutely love these firehose projects. So much fun. Makes me hope Bluesky gets 10x bigger soon :D.
If you add the following line just prior to the return in createTextTexture() the blurriness goes away:
texture.anisotropy = renderer.capabilities.getMaxAnisotropy();
theoretically237 days ago
Thanks - implemented some texture pooling (via LLM). I think the blurriness may [accidentally] help with the retro aesthetic, but I'll try to get that the anisotropy in as an optional parameter.
z3ncyberpunk4 days ago
Bigger is not always better if it just fills up with the same type of people who fled Twitter in the first place. No one wants/needs a second Reddit.
Etheryte6 days ago
Yeah, managing your own memory is a good performance optimization a surprising amount of time when working with large data sets in Javascript. I've seen it used in 3D code, graph problems, etc, and so long as you keep it isolated, it's not too much of a hassle.
Nihilartikel7 days ago
This is cool! A long time ago I wanted to make something a little like this for my 20% project at Google/YouTube - a page that rained thumbnails of uploaded videos as soon as they became available.
Unfortunately, the idea was nixed since it had a pretty high chance of exposing ugly stuff that would otherwise have been lost in obscurity and never seen.
do_not_redeem6 days ago
Do you think your idea has any more risk than sites like these:
ipython6 days ago
Absolutely 100% yes. Difference is these projects themselves are obscure. Opposed to an official Google branded service that will see significant publicity.
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issung7 days ago
Reminds me of this old website I used to stare at for long periods, found it very relaxing: "Listen to Wikipedia" http://listen.hatnote.com/
dang7 days ago
Related:
Wikipedia Recent Changes Map - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32649091 - Aug 2022 (36 comments)
Listen to Wikipedia - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25560953 - Dec 2020 (34 comments)
Show HN: A Billboard-like chart for Wikipedia articles - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10730695 - Dec 2015 (7 comments)
Listen to Wikipedia - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9972781 - July 2015 (63 comments)
Listen to a melody made by Wikipedia article changes - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8588576 - Nov 2014 (10 comments)
Listen to Wikipedia - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6182576 - Aug 2013 (1 comment)
Live map of recent changes to Wikipedia articles - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5693189 - May 2013 (13 comments)
Wikipedia Recent Changes (Live) Map - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5687722 - May 2013 (1 comment)
Rcmap: real-time visualization of Wikipedia edits around the world - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5645256 - May 2013 (3 comments)
issung6 days ago
Wow all the way back in 2013, I have visited it many times over the last 11 years :)
73737373736 days ago
I'm saddened that Wikipedia has still not implemented an (AI) text to speech solution to read articles
nyanpasu647 days ago
I noticed that for messages facing the camera, ones further away from the screen occlude ones closer to the screen. I assume there's an alpha layering/rendering order error going on (assuming no order-independent transparency)?
theoretically237 days ago
Here's a version with that fixed https://firehose3d.theo.io/babylonjs.html (will probably replace the current one soon)
JKCalhoun7 days ago
Seeing some depth-sorting issues with the text on Safari (macOS). Some distant head-on text (not on the sides of the "tunnel") is being drawn over nearer head-on text. Also, sometimes top of text is being clipped a bit.
Very cool though.
theoretically237 days ago
(Here's a version without that problem: https://firehose3d.theo.io/babylonjs.html)
pinerd37 days ago
This is SO cool I love it. Feels like I'm reading snippets from a million people's diaries one after another. Humbling!
mbil7 days ago
This crashes my Safari browser on iOS.
yazzku7 days ago
"Works" on Firefox if you can stomach 300-400ms pauses every 2 seconds.
Edit: I just profiled it and it spends 42% of exclusive time in texImage2D. It would be better to allocate a set of textures up front and then use glTexSubImage2D to update their contents. glTexImage2D allocates a new texture every time.
theoretically237 days ago
Thanks - should be better now hopefully on Firefox
yazzku6 days ago
This did get rid of that bottleneck and the stutters are slightly better, but it still has some more work to go.
You'll want to get rid of glTexImage2D completely except for application startup (allocate a pool of N images up front, then re-use them and update with glTexSubImage2D). And short of being able to optimize the text render, which seems to be awfully stupid, you'll want to render offscreen to those textures ahead of time before you need to render them on-screen.
yazzku6 days ago
To be fair, you're crazy CPU-bound. This workload is peanuts for a modern GPU and there's no excuse for it not running at 500+ fps. But that's just how JS goes. You'd probably have better luck with C/wasm for this kind of thing if the web is your target.
DaiPlusPlus7 days ago
Still very stuttery before crashing in Safari on iOS on my iPad :/
brookst6 days ago
Smooth and stable on iOS DB3 on iPad…
consumer451op7 days ago
For reference, while it does work much better on my old laptop now, on iOS 18.0.1 iPhone 11 Pro Max, it also crashes until I add https://firehose3d.theo.io/?discardFrac=0.6
tsumnia7 days ago
Firefox ran it, but very broken.
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wkat42426 days ago
Weird, for me it worked great on mobile Firefox
matsemann7 days ago
According to the title, perhaps try IE6 on XP ;)
theoretically237 days ago
Yes, best in Chrome I'm afraid
mensetmanusman5 days ago
Lasts 5 seconds on iPhone 16 pro max
Angostura7 days ago
It’s seems to work fir me ok on 18.1
0xEF6 days ago
This is like a visualization of my anxiety. Too much coming in at once to possibly process, so higher order cognitive function just goes welp
billylo7 days ago
Love it! I seriously want to use it as a background for my server.
(any chance to publish a version with a configurable speed?)
theoretically237 days ago
(Creator here), sure I just added something so you can play with the URL: https://firehose3d.theo.io/?speed=0.9 (but if you slow the movement down too much there will just be way too much content because it's real time)
For people on slow machines you can also reduce the number of messages with e.g. https://firehose3d.theo.io/?discardFrac=0.7
billylo7 days ago
Perfect. Thanks!
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jauntywundrkind7 days ago
Also just saw this project, which is a little night sky scene where stars are posts. No real interactivity but fun to see the playing around! https://nightsky.hctr.dev/ https://bsky.app/profile/hctr.dev/post/3lb3ywnxac22n
ChrisArchitect7 days ago
Whoa, Johnny Mnemonic (1995) calling.
Also, these experiments are good fun, anytime there's a plethora of data available to play with it's a good time.... but anyone else get the weird sense of having been here before? Early Twitter days lots of this kind of thing was going on too with all the tweet data. Until they weren't. When everyone at Twitter woke up and realized it wasn't sustainable financially and technically to keep open firehoses out there. And then the API limits started creeping in and never really stopped. Just saying, we've been here and it's hard to see it playing out a different way even with ATProto's sorta decentralized whatever future.
TheJoeMan7 days ago
There could be some pessimism or learned hesitancy, but on the other hand perhaps we can just enjoy it while it is here? I thought the same thing about people building businesses on top of ChatGPT, yet they managed to have exits before any rug-pulls.
brookst6 days ago
This is really cool, and within the first 5 seconds gave me a phrase that will be stuck in my head for a long time: arrogance is not a substitute for intelligence, Sebastian. IDK who Sebastian is, but I will be sure to let him know if ever I meet him.
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marifjeren6 days ago
I was like.. "Why do so many of the non-wall posts seem to have fire emojis in them?"
Turns out:
if (text.includes('fire-emoji') || wall > 3) { wall = -1; }
It's funny how palpable this snippet is while looking at the firehose.
https://github.com/theosanderson/firehose/blob/77225acb28985...
ulrischa7 days ago
I like the possibilities given by the openness of bluesky
WithinReason7 days ago
You can increase the texture resolution if you "zoom out" of your browser (ctrl+scrolldown or ctrl+- in Firefox)
zft5 days ago
If you are interested if something usefull can build with atproto firehose, here you go https://www.graphtracks.com
tkiolp47 days ago
Would be interesting to know how the app is deployed. I see there are some k8s yaml files: does the deployment happen manually (e.g., run kubectl commands inside the cluster)? Is there some sort of pipeline perhaps? (I don’t see any in the repo)
bitwize7 days ago
Needs more Ellie Goulding: https://helloenjoy.com/lights/
qingcharles7 days ago
This is trippy as hell on my 40" ultrawide. Love it.
ProllyInfamous4 days ago
43" 16:9... on M2Pro... it's like trying to listen to a group of your closest million friends, shroomed. It's also the first GPU-intensive "struggle" this machine has experienced (i.e. animation is occassionally choppy).
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smusamashah7 days ago
Which windows screen saver was this exactly? Is it maze?
djbusby7 days ago
I think they just mean feelings of early OpenGL (was that what it was?)
poglet7 days ago
It appears to have elements of '3D Maze' and 'Flying Windows' (Windows 3.1).
sandworm1016 days ago
Once upon a time, browsers had a stop button to pause animations. Now im hunting menus for that button so i can pause the firehose.
rightbyte6 days ago
Really neat. Feels kinda surrealistic. A bit heavy on my broswer though.
Is there a way to run stuff like this as an actual screensaver (on Debian)?
nemo44x7 days ago
The firehouse will allow the scolds and hall monitors to more easily hunt down the blasphemers and wrong thinkers.
mouse_6 days ago
weird take
asacrowflies6 days ago
That seems to the only purpose twitter ever served even before it was "ruined" was social witch hunts and mass mob forming.
pessimizer6 days ago
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yonders7 days ago
It's a nice visualization, but it reminds me of why I avoid social media. Endless, worthless garbage spewed out into the void.
globalise836 days ago
This is also social media.
9999000009997 days ago
Cool, but this nearly hard crashed my phone. I'm on a OP12 which is one of the fastest phones you can buy.
consumer451op7 days ago
The creator is here reading the feedback, and committing code as we speak. I wonder how much HN feedback will help. In any case, this is all a fun experiment!
update: between when I posted OP and now, the site went from utter jank in FF to 90% smooth on my 7 year old ThinkPad Carbon X1 (5th gen, Intel HD 620)
Nice! This is one of the coolest comment->commit experiences that I've ever had!
throwaway5197 days ago
$100 Helio G85 with 6G RAM runs fine. Fennex browser.
Check your OS or browser for problems.
petee7 days ago
For a comparison, I'm on a Pixel 8a mid-level device, and with Opera I get fairly smooth frame rates with some stuttering here and there. Maybe something else is running in the background?
Kye7 days ago
It feels like Clippy is about to pop out and kick my butt. The authentic XP experience.
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oksurewhynot7 days ago
I would like to know how far through the firehose I have traveled
0823498723498727 days ago
Use the force to sense how many pixels you've traveled.
Then, when you get to the exhaust port, fire the proton torpedoes.
jcpham26 days ago
Totally crashes chrome on iOS - repeatedly in strange ways
xunil2ycom7 days ago
I have no clue what "Bluesky firehose" even means.
consumer451op7 days ago
Bluesky is a microblogging social network, like Twitter, or Threads.
However, Bluesky is the only one with open access to the firehose, aka all the activity. Here is a different, less aesthetically pleasing tool to see it:
jeromegv7 days ago
Mastodon is pretty open as well. Just won’t be the entire firehouse due to the decentralized nature of it.
CaptainFever7 days ago
There seems to be some projects that scrape(?) the most popular servers to turn it into a firehose, like this one: https://relay.fedi.buzz/
pfraze6 days ago
The atproto relays are crawling aggregations of independent servers. There’s no reason AP couldn’t accomplish the same if they worked on it
consumer451op7 days ago
I should have included Mastodon in my list, my apologies. Theoretically, it's the most copesthetic project.
infotainment7 days ago
Bluesky == A particular Twitter alternative
Firehose == The raw live feed of all new posts from all users
squigz7 days ago
Google to the rescue: https://docs.bsky.app/docs/advanced-guides/firehose
esperent7 days ago
This pretty quickly crashed my tab, using Chrome on Android.
dicknuckle7 days ago
Works fine on Kiwi Browser on Android, although I'm using a fairly powerful ASUS phone.
esperent7 days ago
I also tried it on Kiwi, using an s21 FE which is a few years old but not exactly a slouch and it crashed after about 10 seconds, same as Chrome.
leonewton2537 days ago
Really cool! Works smoother in Firefox than Safari
metadat7 days ago
This is incredible. It's all I ever wanted.
firecall7 days ago
Warning: May Cause Seizures
BobbyTables25 days ago
Hack the Gibson!
jaimex27 days ago
Not sure about your feeds but I got a lot of moping over Twitter/X.
nektro7 days ago
crashed my firefox
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valeg7 days ago
Whoa!
catapart7 days ago
This is fucking bonkers, bro.
Love it!
rishabhd6 days ago
The internet, was supposed to be like this. I used to perceive it like this in its early days. And then it got enshittified.
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threeseed7 days ago
Looking at their investment rounds have seen no Russian investment:
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/bluesky-514d/company...
leonjza7 days ago
Curious about this statement. Can you link to any reading I can do to learn more?
consumer451op7 days ago
Same here. I just looked up who is behind their Series A lead, and it's not ideal. However, I can't find a moscow connection.
In any case, what I would love to know is who has the majority of voting shares, how the PBC relates to that, etc.
timeon7 days ago
Isn't Twitter funded by SA and Russians?
krjagsh7 days ago
SA, yes. The full list is at the bottom of this article. While Russians may hide behind one of the many firms, it does not look like they have anything like a controlling stake:
https://fortune.com/2024/08/22/elon-musk-x-twitter-owner-lis...
timeon7 days ago
> anything like a controlling stake
Post (now flagged) was not mentioning controlling stake.
So I was referring to this: https://www.dw.com/en/what-do-xs-alleged-ties-to-russian-oli...