An open source app we can all learn from YouTube video by Theo - t3․gg

Really great video from @t3.gg about the Bluesky app and how it's built. youtu.be/cIoYUQhKJUo?...

Bluesky Starter Packs - Bluesky Directory Browse a list of Bluesky Starter Packs. Discover and connect with your community on Bluesky

Did you know there’s a site to search for starter packs of people to follow? Built by @mubashariqbal.com

blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...

Excerpt from Michael S. Malone's "The Big Score" describing VCs as not building companies that last. It is unknown if the executive's company did indeed endure!

Plus ça change: Silicon Valley venture capital, ca. 1985

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OCS 2023: Jay Graber (Bluesky) Jay Graber is the CEO of Bluesky, as well as a digital rights activist, a cryptocurrency engineer,...

Here’s @jay.bsky.team speaking about @bsky.app way back when we only had 2 million users. This is from my conference Open Core Summit. 🦋🥹

www.coss.community/cossc/ocs-20...

Jay on Bluesky: We've been scaling up. There's been about a million people joining a day for the past week

Sustaining (and its accelerating) the current growth rate of 4 new users per second, @bsky.app will cross 100 million users within 9 months. Wild.

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15M people on Bluesky!!! 💫

The Verge beat us to our own announcement — that's the beauty of an open network with public stats!

Join us in SF on December 6-7th to meet and hear from founders of @github.com , GitLab , @wordpress.bsky.social , @bsky.app + many OSS Capital portfolio founders and ecosystem friends. And here's a discount code for FOSS builders: 'opensourcefrens' ❤️‍🔥 opencoresummit.com

Open standards, trust, and Google We should build and use software that uses open standards, and be careful about the companies in which we place our trust.

I wrote about how we should look to open standards, and be weary of trusting companies that have closed systems:

https://blog.cassidoo.co/post/open-standards-are-good/

Why are blocks on Bluesky public? | AT Protocol The technical implementation of public blocks and some possibilities for more privacy preserving block implementations — an area of active research and experimentation.

✨ ✍️ New: We have a developer blog now!

In our first post, we share our current technical implementation of public blocks and some possibilities for more privacy preserving implementations — an area of active research and experimentation.

https://atproto.com/blog/block-implementation

Now that we've crossed 100k users, we prefer new methods of feedback — tagging the team does not scale. Please use:
• In-app reporting feature. Our mods review every report we receive.
• In-app feedback form
• Developers can file an issue on GitHub
• Email support@bsky.app for support requests

BlueSky has broken the 100,000 user mark! Congrats to the team and to all the folks who have been here to help keep the conversation and cat pictures flowing!

Time for bed now but I'm glad there were some folks watching along with me.

When they want to shut it down, I say double down avc.mirror.xyz/oatPVtZGZihhwrKFm6L3Z0uw...

You should be smoking Cubans! I’ll send you some Joe.

Something something AI.

Here are 10 random things you don't even care about. 🧵

Someone asked on HN for a comparison between @atproto.com and @matrix.org and I had a stab at it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35886140 Corrections/clarifications welcome; it feels like this should be a blogpost or something rather than lost in the depths of HN...

Here’s Jack on how open source protocols are just as big a deal as AI. 👌🏼🔥

Q1 23 $SQ (Block) earnings call a couple days ago.. s29.q4cdn.com/628966176/files/doc_fina...

I was a c-section baby. Healthy congratulations!! 🙇🏻‍♂️♥️

I’m on it, it’s just that discoverability there is abysmal.

There’s no money in open source.

There’s only niche money in open source.

There’s definitely money in open source.

Most of the money is in open source.

The only money is in open source.

There is no money, there’s only open source.

Bluesky was a project kicked off by Jack when he was CEO of Twitter in 2019. Jack chose Jay to lead Bluesky, & Twitter paid Bluesky to build an open social protocol (not funding). Bluesky has been an independent company (PBLLC) since its formation in 2021. Bsky is owned by team; Jack is on the board

AI safety is the new woke

Make them ready.

LFG.