Jay here: this is a transition I've been working towards for awhile, and I'm looking forward to advancing the vision and ecosystem as CIO (Chief Innovation Officer). Toni has been an advisor to us for years, and I…
Yep, we intentionally built it to be hackable! We believe that social media will improve when people are free to build on it, change it, fork it, and remix it. Bluesky and the atproto ecosystem can evolve as fast as…
Bluesky is federated through the AT Protocol, and a bridge between Bluesky and Mastodon started running recently. https://fed.brid.gy/ I've seen some Nostr users bridged as well
Bluesky CEO here. We were founded to build a protocol for Twitter, and likely would have died as a project within Twitter had I not spent half of 2021 negotiating for our independence. In 2022, I got funding and began…
Our mission statement is in the first blog post we ever published about the company. https://bsky.social/about/blog/2-7-2022-overview "Our mission is to develop and drive large-scale adoption of technologies for open…
Yes — the canonical source of truth for a user's data is their "data repository" which is analogous to a git repo. These can really be passed around any way you want. Our current relay architecture was designed to…
We'll be publishing a lot more about moderation soon, but the basics of labelers: - anyone can label anything in the network — including other labelers - apps can surface labelers for users to subscribe to, similar to…
Twitter named the project bluesky before I got involved, funnily enough. Coincidence. But my middle name does mean bluesky in Mandarin.
Yep — tutorial and some examples: https://bsky.social/about/blog/4-28-2023-domain-handle-tutor...
Hi, Jay from bluesky here. Actually nobody on the team, including myself, has ever worked at Twitter. We're designing for flexible and composable moderation systems driven by user choice.
Bluesky | Web Developer | Remote, PST overlap required | https://twitter.com/bluesky Bluesky is building social network protocols. Our team has decades of combined experience building distributed applications, and we’re…
The waitlist is just for the app. We've been developing the protocol in a public repo on Github for months, but most people don't have the patience to follow open source code development, so we'll notify them when we…
Bluesky | Software Engineer | Remote, PST overlap preferred | https://twitter.com/bluesky Bluesky is building a better social networking ecosystem based on decentralized protocols. We're creating tooling for reputation…
That's a good point, I'll see if I can get some current benchmarks.
Adding another alternative to the list - have been working on https://happening.net, a site to make event hosting easier. It will be gradually getting more features to support Meetup-like functionality.
Idk if you actually read the post, but a lot of people early to computing didn't become multi-millionaires. Lee Felsenstein, who helped start the Homebrew Computer Club, has a Patreon where people support his projects…
Jay here: this is a transition I've been working towards for awhile, and I'm looking forward to advancing the vision and ecosystem as CIO (Chief Innovation Officer). Toni has been an advisor to us for years, and I…
Yep, we intentionally built it to be hackable! We believe that social media will improve when people are free to build on it, change it, fork it, and remix it. Bluesky and the atproto ecosystem can evolve as fast as…
Bluesky is federated through the AT Protocol, and a bridge between Bluesky and Mastodon started running recently. https://fed.brid.gy/ I've seen some Nostr users bridged as well
Bluesky CEO here. We were founded to build a protocol for Twitter, and likely would have died as a project within Twitter had I not spent half of 2021 negotiating for our independence. In 2022, I got funding and began…
Our mission statement is in the first blog post we ever published about the company. https://bsky.social/about/blog/2-7-2022-overview "Our mission is to develop and drive large-scale adoption of technologies for open…
Yes — the canonical source of truth for a user's data is their "data repository" which is analogous to a git repo. These can really be passed around any way you want. Our current relay architecture was designed to…
We'll be publishing a lot more about moderation soon, but the basics of labelers: - anyone can label anything in the network — including other labelers - apps can surface labelers for users to subscribe to, similar to…
Twitter named the project bluesky before I got involved, funnily enough. Coincidence. But my middle name does mean bluesky in Mandarin.
Yep — tutorial and some examples: https://bsky.social/about/blog/4-28-2023-domain-handle-tutor...
Hi, Jay from bluesky here. Actually nobody on the team, including myself, has ever worked at Twitter. We're designing for flexible and composable moderation systems driven by user choice.
Bluesky | Web Developer | Remote, PST overlap required | https://twitter.com/bluesky Bluesky is building social network protocols. Our team has decades of combined experience building distributed applications, and we’re…
Bluesky | Web Developer | Remote, PST overlap required | https://twitter.com/bluesky Bluesky is building social network protocols. Our team has decades of combined experience building distributed applications, and we’re…
The waitlist is just for the app. We've been developing the protocol in a public repo on Github for months, but most people don't have the patience to follow open source code development, so we'll notify them when we…
Bluesky | Software Engineer | Remote, PST overlap preferred | https://twitter.com/bluesky Bluesky is building a better social networking ecosystem based on decentralized protocols. We're creating tooling for reputation…
That's a good point, I'll see if I can get some current benchmarks.
Adding another alternative to the list - have been working on https://happening.net, a site to make event hosting easier. It will be gradually getting more features to support Meetup-like functionality.
Idk if you actually read the post, but a lot of people early to computing didn't become multi-millionaires. Lee Felsenstein, who helped start the Homebrew Computer Club, has a Patreon where people support his projects…