just stuck a e-ink display into my scanner and printed a copy AMA

no fuckin way

why call them skeets when “bleets” is right there?

Family friend’s school where they send their 5yo in Brooklyn does active shooter drills. They tell the kids it’s a “cat and mouse” game. Dystopian.

blue sky feature that limits who I can follow to only include people who have the same number of followers or fewer

“It’s the graph to end all graphs. The final graph, ok? It’s like a super-federated AI doom machine to the corrupt. You don’t get verified. You verify yourself. You don’t ask permission. It’s libertarians and liberals merging like the ultimate Voltron culture warrior. The sky is blue motherfucker.”

gotta say so far my experience on this sky app is kind of meh. pretty much the same old former blue ticks welcoming each other and redeploying their graphs. nothing organic or fun for the pleebs (yet).

saw these napkins that have a mobile app

yes! we're working on a feature where you can literally choose what algorithm your feed uses. more detail in our blog post here: https://blueskyweb.xyz/blog/3-30-2023-algorithmic-choice

reminder that the “most watched news show” still only has 3.5 million viewers. that’s significantly lower than many streamers and social media counts.

Ooh custom domains as handles. How’s that for verification!

so this whole thing is a do-over yeah?