Karthik Hariharan
@hkarthik.bsky.social
Engineering Manager working in tech. I post about tech, business, politics, and the occasional shitpost.
Seems like there’s a lot of lurking on Bluesky but less posting. Or I just need to really tune my feed.
December 6, 2024 at 7:07 PM
Seems like there’s a lot of lurking on Bluesky but less posting. Or I just need to really tune my feed.
Upgrading my iPhone right now and Blue Sky reloaded quickly to my new phone, but the other app did not! Maybe it’s a sign.
November 18, 2024 at 3:00 AM
Upgrading my iPhone right now and Blue Sky reloaded quickly to my new phone, but the other app did not! Maybe it’s a sign.
I am checking Bluesky out again, haven’t posted here in over a year but sounds like folks have migrated over in droves!
November 14, 2024 at 5:46 PM
I am checking Bluesky out again, haven’t posted here in over a year but sounds like folks have migrated over in droves!
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I feel like my generation experienced Peak Internet and we’re now on a downward trend.
Google Search sucks. You can’t trust Amazon ratings. Twitter & Reddit are at war with their users. Every useful news site is paywalled and every garbage one is free.
Turns out 2010s were the good old days.
Google Search sucks. You can’t trust Amazon ratings. Twitter & Reddit are at war with their users. Every useful news site is paywalled and every garbage one is free.
Turns out 2010s were the good old days.
July 1, 2023 at 12:09 PM
I feel like my generation experienced Peak Internet and we’re now on a downward trend.
Google Search sucks. You can’t trust Amazon ratings. Twitter & Reddit are at war with their users. Every useful news site is paywalled and every garbage one is free.
Turns out 2010s were the good old days.
Google Search sucks. You can’t trust Amazon ratings. Twitter & Reddit are at war with their users. Every useful news site is paywalled and every garbage one is free.
Turns out 2010s were the good old days.
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Our systems are currently experiencing some degraded performance as a result of record-high traffic. You may notice some slowness in-app as a result. Our team is working to resolve this issue.
You can view our system performance status here: https://status.bsky.app/
You can view our system performance status here: https://status.bsky.app/
July 1, 2023 at 6:02 PM
Our systems are currently experiencing some degraded performance as a result of record-high traffic. You may notice some slowness in-app as a result. Our team is working to resolve this issue.
You can view our system performance status here: https://status.bsky.app/
You can view our system performance status here: https://status.bsky.app/
Bluesky might need to launch rate limiting to rate limit all the Twitter users coming here to escape rate limiting.
July 1, 2023 at 8:06 PM
Bluesky might need to launch rate limiting to rate limit all the Twitter users coming here to escape rate limiting.
Rate limits are annoying. Especially in something you pay for.
I pay for ChatGPT Plus and regularly hit the rate limit there too.
I pay for ChatGPT Plus and regularly hit the rate limit there too.
July 1, 2023 at 8:02 PM
Rate limits are annoying. Especially in something you pay for.
I pay for ChatGPT Plus and regularly hit the rate limit there too.
I pay for ChatGPT Plus and regularly hit the rate limit there too.
Happy Father’s day to all the fellow dads out there and especially to those whose dads are longer with us!❤️
June 18, 2023 at 5:12 PM
Happy Father’s day to all the fellow dads out there and especially to those whose dads are longer with us!❤️
I’m thinking about picking up a $3500 snorkeling mask that was announced today. Should I do it?
June 5, 2023 at 10:34 PM
I’m thinking about picking up a $3500 snorkeling mask that was announced today. Should I do it?
So many of these long shot Republican primary candidates are giving me Connor Roy vibes. It’s gonna be a wild primary season.
June 4, 2023 at 9:37 PM
So many of these long shot Republican primary candidates are giving me Connor Roy vibes. It’s gonna be a wild primary season.
So I stopped using the staging site and using the real one. Is there any real difference? Am I not on the latest code?
June 3, 2023 at 7:31 PM
So I stopped using the staging site and using the real one. Is there any real difference? Am I not on the latest code?
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We just published an update on our private beta and our roadmap — read here:
https://blueskyweb.xyz/blog/6-02-2023-beta-update
https://blueskyweb.xyz/blog/6-02-2023-beta-update
Private Beta Update & Roadmap
Our priorities continue to be a focus on moderation and curation to ensure a safe and pleasant environment for users, and protocol work to launch federation.
blueskyweb.xyz
June 2, 2023 at 6:10 PM
We just published an update on our private beta and our roadmap — read here:
https://blueskyweb.xyz/blog/6-02-2023-beta-update
https://blueskyweb.xyz/blog/6-02-2023-beta-update
Haven’t really been posting or using Bsky heavily due to a social media break. Is this feeds thing new? Any new features I should be aware of?
May 27, 2023 at 6:05 PM
Haven’t really been posting or using Bsky heavily due to a social media break. Is this feeds thing new? Any new features I should be aware of?
Reposted by Karthik Hariharan
Reminder: You are no longer on Twitter and there’s no need to subject your followers to updates on Elon Musk’s latest racist shenanigans.
If people wanted to stay up to date on those, we’d have stayed on Twitter.
If people wanted to stay up to date on those, we’d have stayed on Twitter.
May 17, 2023 at 2:44 AM
Reminder: You are no longer on Twitter and there’s no need to subject your followers to updates on Elon Musk’s latest racist shenanigans.
If people wanted to stay up to date on those, we’d have stayed on Twitter.
If people wanted to stay up to date on those, we’d have stayed on Twitter.
And now there's about to be a ton of PRs to this file by clout chasers. Lock that down quickly @pfrazee.com !
https://github.com/bluesky-social/social-app/blob/main/src/lib/constants.ts#L40
https://github.com/bluesky-social/social-app/blob/main/src/lib/constants.ts#L40
May 15, 2023 at 9:12 PM
And now there's about to be a ton of PRs to this file by clout chasers. Lock that down quickly @pfrazee.com !
https://github.com/bluesky-social/social-app/blob/main/src/lib/constants.ts#L40
https://github.com/bluesky-social/social-app/blob/main/src/lib/constants.ts#L40
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May 15, 2023 at 8:44 PM
Reposted by Karthik Hariharan
I’m here. The positive corner of the internet is taking over Bluesky.
May 15, 2023 at 11:38 AM
I’m here. The positive corner of the internet is taking over Bluesky.
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what a wonderful hell these people built for themselves
May 15, 2023 at 5:50 PM
what a wonderful hell these people built for themselves
Monday morning vibes.
May 15, 2023 at 4:26 PM
Monday morning vibes.
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PSA🦋: We have 24/7 moderation coverage and are still improving our escalation processes. For reference, many social media companies were 8-10 weeks behind on moderation reports for their first years. We hope community, composable moderation will enable our mod team to react more quickly!
May 14, 2023 at 7:58 PM
PSA🦋: We have 24/7 moderation coverage and are still improving our escalation processes. For reference, many social media companies were 8-10 weeks behind on moderation reports for their first years. We hope community, composable moderation will enable our mod team to react more quickly!
Funny how much of my LinkedIn feed is now shitposts.
I assume they are powerless to stop the shitposting now. The product itself has become such a joke.
They still have a huge reach because the jobless have nowhere else to go, but LinkedIn feels low value for everyone else.
I assume they are powerless to stop the shitposting now. The product itself has become such a joke.
They still have a huge reach because the jobless have nowhere else to go, but LinkedIn feels low value for everyone else.
May 13, 2023 at 4:50 PM
Funny how much of my LinkedIn feed is now shitposts.
I assume they are powerless to stop the shitposting now. The product itself has become such a joke.
They still have a huge reach because the jobless have nowhere else to go, but LinkedIn feels low value for everyone else.
I assume they are powerless to stop the shitposting now. The product itself has become such a joke.
They still have a huge reach because the jobless have nowhere else to go, but LinkedIn feels low value for everyone else.
Reposted by Karthik Hariharan
Okay... basically everyone on social media (and plenty of people off social media) have very strong opinions on how content moderation should work. But very few of them have actually *done* content moderation...
May 11, 2023 at 4:28 PM
Okay... basically everyone on social media (and plenty of people off social media) have very strong opinions on how content moderation should work. But very few of them have actually *done* content moderation...
Great builders keep things above board even when the haters come out. Awesome work @pfrazee.com! And please do get some rest.
May 11, 2023 at 1:06 AM
Great builders keep things above board even when the haters come out. Awesome work @pfrazee.com! And please do get some rest.
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The merits of deplatforming are even more clearly proven for the central nodes of harmful networks: https://medium.com/@shagunjhaver/evaluating-the-effectiveness-of-deplatforming-as-a-moderation-strategy-on-twitter-39a4265ccbe4
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Deplatforming as a Moderation Strategy on Twitter
This blog post summarizes a paper on understanding the effects of deplatforming offensive influencers on Twitter that will be presented at…
medium.com
May 8, 2023 at 10:32 PM
The merits of deplatforming are even more clearly proven for the central nodes of harmful networks: https://medium.com/@shagunjhaver/evaluating-the-effectiveness-of-deplatforming-as-a-moderation-strategy-on-twitter-39a4265ccbe4