Although the Bluesky app isn’t great, the API is very nice – I love the custom feeds folks are sharing! Only posts, no replies or reposts: bsky.app/profile/did:... Only posts from people you follow who post rarely: bsky.app/profile/did:... - ThreadSky

twostraws.bsky.social • 87 days ago

Although the Bluesky app isn’t great, the API is very nice – I love the custom feeds folks are sharing!

Only posts, no replies or reposts: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:tenurhgjptubkk5zf5qhi3og/feed/only-posts

Only posts from people you follow who post rarely: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:vpkhqolt662uhesyj6nxm7ys/feed/infreq

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collin.social•87 days ago

It’s not great, but it’s certainly the best official app for one of these kinds of sites.

twostraws.bsky.social•87 days ago

The official Twitter app has a significantly better accessibility experience than the official Bluesky app. (It’s also a sexist, racist hellhole, so definitely 100 points for Bluesky there!)

ratkins.net•87 days ago

I believe @skeetsapp.com’s accessibility story is better than the first party app.

twostraws.bsky.social•87 days ago

Here’s how your reply sounds to a blind user. It reads your avatar, then open your profile, your name, your account handle, says 8m means 8 meters, then your message, then all the 0 replies etc – it’s almost entirely a wall of gibberish.

mackuba.eu•87 days ago

@samuel.bsky.team @hailey.at

twostraws.bsky.social•87 days ago

Here’s how a reply sounds in Twitter. Reads the person’s name, who are they are replying to, then their message, then “2 days ago”, then the stats that have values. But it also says “actions available” at the end, so users know they can swipe through like, repost, etc. Night and day difference.

swifteves.bsky.social•87 days ago

To be fair, Twitter wouldn’t have much of this under the current regime since their accessibility team was disbanded. We’re really lucky they made work that was made to last past the foibles of the muppet who runs the place. I hope Bluesky gets at least something on par soon.

twostraws.bsky.social•87 days ago

Yes – they are surfing on the wake of solid work done previously.

macro.bsky.social•87 days ago

Performance-wise it’s the best React Native app I’ve seen, but a proper native client would be great. The lack of ads bloat helps with that performance though.

fletch.online•87 days ago

Amazing how well any web app can perform when every scroll, click, or even lingering view on a page can fire off 800 tracking beacons, eh?

lachlan.bsky.social•87 days ago

Tbh the architecture of the whole Bluesky platform and AT Protocol is fascinating to me.

Also I see a few efforts underway to build a native iOS client. @dimillian.app is one I’m following closely 😁

lachlan.bsky.social•87 days ago

@gergely.pragmaticengineer.com has a pretty comprehensive write up on the platform architecture here https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/bluesky

Was a very intriguing read.

kuldar.com•87 days ago

Interested to hear what are your gripes with the Bluesky app?

twostraws.bsky.social•87 days ago

It’s the lack of polish. A large part of the problem is them not using native controls, so things like the large content viewer for tabs doesn’t work, you can’t tap and hold Back to choose from a stack, VoiceOver reads are a mess, etc. Lots of paper cuts.

c5inco.bsky.social•87 days ago

Yeah I think it’s some React Native doing React Native, e.g. sheet in dark theme still thinks app is in light theme 🥲

world-weaver.bsky.social•87 days ago

Maybe some of your gripes are in the user backlog?
https://github.com/bluesky-social/social-app/labels/feature-request

kuldar.com•87 days ago

Ah gotcha. Yeah I assumed there might be some details a native iOS programmer notices that a casual user like me tends to miss.

deathdogg.bsky.social•83 days ago

I don't use the native app because accessibility is mid at best, but I like the skeets app for bluesky (help us all with that name though)

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