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  • I've built my own client for Twitter. I'm using a library that a random guy maintains. It has its problems, but all of them can be worked around, and overall it feels solid, especially considering the fact that it's done by a single person.

    Then I had to add bsky support when everyone and their mother migrared there. I used the atproto Python library and holy smokes, whener I need to touch that part of the code I feel sad.

    by anal_reactor
  • As a researcher who spent most of my graduate program trying to scrape twitter to do sentiment analysis. I do not believe you.
    by GaryNumanVevo
  • > I've built my own client for Twitter.

    Didn't they terminate free API access? How does your client work?

    by boramalper
  • I suppose that while your Twitter thing just touches the surface-level client-facing API, your Bluesky thing touches the internals. You could scrape bsky.app the same way you do for Twitter.
    by inigyou
  • This protocol would be a great match for UCAN.
    by taylorbuley
  • Suppose this would be an example of what they meant by 'expands beyond the app'

    Related:

    Bluesky's active user base is shrinking as its focus expands beyond the app

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49263461

    by ChrisArchitect
  • Do you have a database/ui of all of this story graph labeling you've done? Is there a story behind it?
    by big_toast
  • I'm all for whatever atproto expansion and whatever's going on here, mainly it harks back to early Twitter days (tho also for better or worse, watching them build Bluesky in realtime isn't the best), but when they have outages like last week a good chunk of service unreachable/down for many hours with little update on https://status.bsky.app/ and then whatever history just basically disappears as if nothing ever goes wrong, it's not a good vibe.

    Despite all the openness and github repos and what not it's very difficult to get straight answers or just like find a place where issues or changes to the platform are addressed easily.

    by ChrisArchitect
  • Sort of on a tangent to the actual content of the page, but what documentation system/CMS is this particular web page UI? It seems very fast and relatively uncluttered for the menu on the left side, content pane, top horizontal menu bar.
    by walrus01
  • Looks like astro starlight
    by arikrahman
  • No sure I agree on fast. At least on mobile the sidebar has an show/hide slide animation that takes a sizeable fraction of a second. In fact is one of the slowest animations for this I have seen.

    I disable animations entirely on devices I use where possible. They just waste time and that adds up if you use something regularly.

    by VorpalWay
  • https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto-website

    If I'm understanding this codebase right, it's a hand-rolled framework based on MDX and Next.js; the UI elements you're referring to were designed from scratch and aren't based on any existing CMS theme.

    by ameliaquining
  • I wonder if it would be a good idea to remake DNS on top of bluesky. The basic idea is that, if you own a domain name, you post DNS updates in a bluesky feed. The firehose itself is authoritative. DNS servers sit downstream of the firehose. All the updates to domain names get written into a database, and they essentially just respond to queries hitting that database. This would let anyone (with enough bandwidth) run a fast domain name server.

    We could use this to fix some of DNS's long running problems. Like, we could add upstream cryptographic signatures to DNS records. And put TLS certificates in there too. We might be able to ditch TTL entries. In a DNS server, records should update via server-push from the firehose. You shouldn't have to wait for TTL to expire.

    I think it'd make a nice little system.

    by josephg
  • this is not quite what you are asking for but https://marque.at exists
    by ruined
  • How do you prove you own a domain with no records?
    by inigyou
  • I think you just invented blockchain DNS (e.g. https://handshake.org/) without the byzantine tolerance.
    by arjvik
  • Great. My map application* has a place review system that was built on Atproto, we don't hold user's reviews, they're public, reusable by others.

    In case of data loss, replaying the jetstream was not possible. This v2 with history is perfect.

    * https://cartes.app

    by maelito
  • Every move/zoom in the map causes it to pollute the browser history. You might want to fix that.
    by gurjeet
  • Chrome Windows, zoomed in on paris, france. Click the restaurant filter for search. The tab froze, tried multiple times. :3
    by delfinom
  • The original Jetstream is really cool - it's incredibly easy to start consuming the Bluesky firehose - you don't even need to use a server, you can consume it directly in the browser.

    I updated my browser demo to use the new Jetstream just now - hit "connect" and scroll down the page to see the events flowing past: https://tools.simonwillison.net/bluesky-firehose

    by simonw
  • New jetstream is fully compatible with old jetstream btw! We just added a bunch of new stuff as well

    This is new jetstream:

    wss://jetstream.us-east.bsky.network/subscribe

    by jcalabro