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This Bluesky Custom Feed has many, many of them (along with lots of other aviation-related stuff):
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We'd settle for Custom Feeds being given full citizenship in the @bsky.app ecosystem. That is, as opposed to their current status where they seem to be treated like an annoying houseguest. | 🦋
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Serenity now.
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All of the above.
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Get them to read/see anything by David Mamet.
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Don't know if this fits your brief, but it's highly recommended. Side benefit: if you've ever wanted to know how much of 'Chinatown' (the movie) was real and how much of it was made up, this is the book. | 📚
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It's possible you might even be able to claim your car converted into a submarine for the journey, just like 007's Lotus in 'The Spy Who Loved Me'.
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40F 🥶 40C 🥵
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Because without the LF part, all of this would wind up on one line and, hence, would be almost unreadable. 🤓
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Apparently, @stephenking.bsky.social worked for a while as a high school janitor, and some of that experience found its way in ‘Carrie’.
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And all of the are trying to recreate that scene, right?
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These folks are running this one in the style of Charles Dickens ... as a serial one chapter per week, for free. It's entirely conceivable it'll be your cup o' tea, old chap.
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The best scene, by far.
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You should be. They're beautiful.
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Disappear? Or reply nine days later like there was never a break in the conversation?
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👍🏻
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Well, we help write the ALTs for these folks so with that full disclosure, we think they do a pretty good job. 😉 They're all written from scratch, by humans which is to say without the aid of AI.
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Moreover, we see this is as a *way* bigger issue than blue checkmark verification, which was kinda handled already, with domain verification, in our view.
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Tell us about it. We spend all day, every day trying to stick to the high road (curation by humans without the aid of AI, no politics, no angry posts, engaging with others' posts, for example), and if anything, engagement on @bsky.app is *going down*. It's quite frustrating, to be candid.
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You mean like this?
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🚲 vs. 🚙
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I think @neildegrassetyson.com says it best.
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"Work Order in Process". 🚧 Notice they're not committing to *actually* doing the work of fixing it. 😉
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We've always felt the @newyorker.com has been doing it right for ... checks notes … about a 100 years. We like it so much, we let it inspire our choices for the articles we publish.
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The existing domain verification approach provides most, if not all, of the functionality of a separate verification feature. We’re concerned the resources verification will soak up — and it will be a ton — could better be used elsewhere to provide functionality of truly differentiating value.
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… What are we missing in terms of the new functionality you're rolling out that is *not* be delivered in the manner we've suggested? | 🦋 | 🧵 4/4
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… We would be inclined to trust a Bluesky user with the (entirely fictional) handle @sjobs.bsky.apple.com *long before* we would *ever* trust (an also entirely fictional) @sjobs.bsky.social regardless of whether or not the latter has a blue check or not … | 🦋 | 🧵 3/4
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… the vipers-nest-embedded-in-a-quagmire into which you're wading, the functionality you're either building — or have already built — exists and has a decades-long track record of working well: specifically DNS subdomains. To illustrate, a simple example … | 🦋 | 🧵 2/4
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Folks – To this point, you've had an excellent track record of delivering features Bluesky users find valuable and doing so in a reasonably timely fashion. However, with this verification thing, we believe you have it one hundred percent wrong. Setting aside … | 🦋 | 🧵 1/4
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We’d always assumed it was for a high pre-disposition to aviation-centric content. 🤨
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We are avoiding that temptation ... but not for the very valid reasons you assert. For us, it’s more out of a fear that AI would think beyond our actual request and present an image of thousands of unsold units of our action figure being dumped into a landfill. 🗑️
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This order, if nothing else, is clearly understood by all concerned. Here's that feed we mentioned above. While sadly still all but invisible in the Bluesky landscape, we're pleased with both the aesthetics and content and are going to be patient with it. Alerts would really help. | 🦋 | 🧵 8/8
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Moreover, rather than getting bogged down with ranking, we simply run with the default reverse chronological order — most recent post at the top. We assert the half-life of interest in *any* of our posts is, say, no more than a day or so. We suspect this is also the case more generally. | 🦋 | 🧵 7/8
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We speak of it as being 'double curated': our curation is by identifying and vetting Trusted Contributors (TC). In turn, the TC's curate their posts by adding an 'Emojitag' (specifically 🛩️ in BluFly’s case) to signal whether their post should be in the feed, or not. It's really simple. | 🦋 | 🧵 6/8
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In effect, it enables the feed to be monitored passively rather than actively. If Bluesky can do just this one thing, we'd be good for a while, at least. The last post in this thread has an example of one of the feeds we manage, BluFly. | 🦋 | 🧵 5/8
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If we could configure an alert — similar to the one where we're tagged in a post, for example — that would be great. That would draw feed subscribers' attention back to the feed when there's actually something new to see. | 🦋 | 🧵 4/8
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Checking any feed for new stuff has to be initiated manually one way or another. Regardless of how easy or convenient that is, it is still really just a matter of time before even this conscious act becomes too much trouble and/or gets forgotten and the feed falls off the mental table. | 🦋 | 🧵 3/8
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That said, we've found Bluesky feeds as they are currently constituted meet our admittedly modest requirements (see last post of thread for example). With one significant exception, however: the inability to optionally configure some sort of alert when something new appears in the feed. | 🦋 | 🧵 2/8
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Interesting thread, Dan. Although we won't profess to understand all the nuances of your comments, what you say seems to make sense in broad terms. Hopefully, Bluesky is paying attention to your worthwhile recommendations. | 🦋 | 🧵 1/8