holy shit good tweet

oh she's in the bsky team, I'm probably wrong then

why would you turn a cat around twice?

and I think aggregator thingies can't be federated? as in, yeah ppl can host their own, but each has to deal with 100% of the data

in fact in my understanding this is incorrect. being able to host your own pod won't help much with scaling; pods were designed to consume low resources. afaiu the scaling bottleneck is the aggregator thingies bsky.app/profile/emily.bsky.team/...

you know how "not not a cat" is a cat? well that has nothing to do with it

gm

it doesn't fit the centralized mental model, or the p2p one, or the federated one, it's a lovely new combination of ideas as far as I can tell

that said, the rest of the bluesky architecture is epic so it doesn't matter that much to me! I can choose timelines and custom moderation labels and all the good stuff! bluesky already gave us a shitton of freedom and control

AFAIU, federation as planned only means federating ownership of my data. means I can host my data myself. but the rest of the bricks that make up bluesky (the aggregators, the timelines) is as before. so e.g. hosting ym own server doesn't really give me more control on what happens to my data

if I understand the bluesky architecture correctly, ppl are gonna get angry when we get federation and it's not what they expected

I must stay strong

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u get me tortle 🫂 hope so too! it's looking good so far, I like my neighborhood

🥰🥰🥰 thank u zary

still, I remember the sounds and smells, I remember dancing on this bridge at midnight, walking through these woods during quarantine. I remember feeling like I had a home and I was welcome to be here

that's why I left a year ago instead of finishing my thesis here as would be expected

I do feel a bit too old. everyone around is in their 20s and has this vibe of not having responsibilities or plans in life

it feels safe from the sheer familiarity. I know where to buy anything I'd need, I know where to chill and to party and to browse books

so many memories after 6 years there. I feel like I grew up here, and in many ways I did

fuck I had missed Oxford so much 😭

photo of a sunset sky with beautiful pink-orange clouds

poast sky

(saying cancer season to be vague enough. it means today plus or minus a few weeks)

this is, sadly, not yet happening

I'm turning 30 this cancer season!! just as I'm finishing my phd. turning point big time

I'm in a hostel and half of the room is cute girls god help me

I'm gaining followers so much more quickly on here even though I don't post as much it's weird

Well that's how we're forced to do it if we can't trust twitter DMs, but it sucks. There's very few ppl I want to give my real life details to, I want group chats without doxxing myself

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