erinc.ca
Interested in minimalism, productivity, onebag travel, indie hacking, PKMs. Led AI products at Amazon.
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Great tip! Just implemented for my domain.
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1Password is the perfect example of enshittification. Even the free version of Bitwarden works better for me now. I also liked Proton Pass, but they need more time to add and enhance features.
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- Their current backlog is endless. No reason to prioritize this.
- Threads' user base is the least technical text-based social media users (compared to Twitter, Mastodon, Bluesky). Over 95% won't understand, or care.
I don't think it'll happen.
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Not likely :)
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Cloudflare, Route 53 etc. all seem to have hard limits on number of DNS records you can have. I wonder why.
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Mine was AOC. She's special.
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Resmi hesap mi acaba...
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Are you planning to make it easier for people to enter their medical info? Entering those vitals seem like a high-friction. I remember seeing Chatgpt being able to parse unstructured copy/paste blood panel data accurately.
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Interesting. How does the engagement compare for posts that don't make it to explore/what's hot tabs?
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I think they shouldn’t do DMs at all unless it’s E2E encrypted. If they can somehow integrate to Signal, that would be even better.
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Mobile experience is really lacking in both, I agree. Craft app is another good alternative. If encryption wasn't a big deal for me, I'd probably go with Craft. The experience on both Mac and iOS was good.
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Curious why Obsidian and Logseq aren't working for you
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And I agree, this is a not a tech problem.
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That's a clear cut example. We can agree that speech promoting criminal activity (based on the US legal system?) should be removed. However, many of the ban requests I've seen so far are not for criminal reasons, but rather due to disagreements in opinions and/or behavior.
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As always, the hard part is defining the "bad actors". Some are clear cut, some are not. The whole starting point of Bluesky is to "protects users from sudden bans, server shutdowns, and policy disagreements."
https://atproto.com/guides/faq
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I think it's important to realize that Bluesky team is building a protocol and a platform, not a Twitter clone. They're not in the business of moderation. They can barely keep up with "moderating" when there's 50K users and it's invite only.How will banning individuals scale when you have millions?
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Which part?
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To me that's the main selling point of Bluesky. Without federation, it's just another Twitter and destined to have the same future. I'm glad the team is continuously emphasizing the importance of decentralization and actively working on it, despite the current cohort of users not caring about it.
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App passwords currently have the admin scope. Basically the same as your primary password. Hopefully they give options to limit the scope soon.
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> If they did get VC investment they’d be dead to me
If everything (protocol, server, clients etc.) are open source, and account portability works as proposed, I'm curious why you'd be against the investment. People can just host their own instance and move on.
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I’ve been working on understanding and building technology that empowers users my whole career, so bluesky is designed that if you don’t like it, you can leave with your connections and data. I encourage you to try one of the 3P clients and self-organize to run your own server soon.
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I haven’t done a deep dive on the PDS side yet but it seems possible with the downside of duplicating data and introducing more complexity, specifically around federation :)
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Not yet, waiting for federation to be finalized before playing with the PDS.
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Agreed! I’ve been playing with the API and it’s fun. Looking forward to seeing multiple servers in the network and testing the account portability.
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You definitely make some valid points. I face similar criticism every time I mention Mastodon’s shortcomings. The community is surprisingly close-minded and overly defensive. My hope of Mastodon’s wider adoption is fading quickly.
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Seems to be combination of many things. Ties to Jack (and loosely to Twitter), premise of federation but not having much to show for it yet, and the hype it generated which Mastodon never had.
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@atproto.com *
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The pushback against Bluesky on Mastodon is really surprising and disappointing. Bluesky has the most potential to bring decentralization to mainstream and @atproto.bsky.social looks very promising.
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Welcome Arvid!
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Tapbots should do it. Ivory app is amazing.
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I miss Adium! 🦆
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I like that Bluesky doesn't have DMs. It's hard to pull off great UX with end-to-end encryption which in my opinion is a must. They can possibly integrate to systems like Matrix on the client side in the future and offload that responsibility.
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Same. Cloudflare propagates really fast.
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And I’m still hoping for a bridge built between AT protocol and ActivityHub for interoperability but not sure how feasible it is technically.
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Hopefully with the awesome account portability objectives here, switching to another app within the AT protocol should be seamless. No need to rebuild your network and online identity.
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I'm sure Bluesky team is aware of the current approach's limitations and is able to of iterate rapidly with new learnings. I'd give them some time. The development pace is quite rapid, which is why this is still invite-only.
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25 lols! :)
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Inspired by @wesbos.bsky.social
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You are 1 of 4! :)
.fun count is 7
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For me a major unknown here is how the UX will be impacted when there's more than a single node in the network.
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Mastodon is pleasant, but not fun :) Ivory app did make it more enjoyable for me.
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I think this is why the capability of having both a PDS issued local username along with a domain name would be useful. If the domain records change, PDS defaults to the local username.
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While I agree that Bluesky has better UX, it is currently a single instance app with 35k total users. What impacts Mastodon’s UX is the actual federation and the decentralized network. A fair comparison would be when there’s more than single node in the AT network. It does look promising so far.