Haha, that was addressed to @begirl.bsky.social, but I’m glad that you are doing well too 😄

Not sure about the meet up though: I don’t know you.

Housing market is broken: both renting and buying is very expensive and difficult.

These are just a few things that I could think off the top of my head.

But overall we like it here.

I hope you guys are doing ok?

No worries :) We are setting well, but still miss the UK and our friends.

Every place has advantages and disadvantages. For example, grocery prices in the Netherlands are noticeably higher. Taxes are also higher and do not cover healthcare - you must pay a mandatory insurance separately.

The server just knows when to take a break to avoid burnout.

I miss Bristol and our lovely friends so much! 💔

And it turns out I also miss the moss 🙂

I keep hearing this from people, but I barely remember early twitter myself :)

But twitter was good to me up to the very last moment: not too much ads and algorithm was giving me good content.

Nice. Next step is to make sidebar scroll separately from the main content of the page.

I suspect they might keep this instance invite-only, but enable federation so others can “connect”.

But it is not clear to me how they will monetise what they are building. Becoming infra provider might be a way. Or turning into some sort of foundation (e.g. wikipedia).

Just speculating.

They just might. They are building a protocol on top of which AFAIU they expect others to build their own social networks and have their own teams (including trust and safety, I guess).

It is like HTTP for websites where every website does moderation of user generated content to some degree.

Why not block them? You think any good relationship still might come out of this?

It is for now, while federation is not there yet. With federation enabled I expect there to be delays.

You are allowed to say Twitter/X/whatever here. There is no punishment for doing so.

Yeah, it looks like they are seeing a bunch of new registrations and increased load probably as a result. From Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/BlueskySocial/comments/15urnnv/bluesky_is_seeing_an_abnormal_influx_of_new_users/

I still do not get why feed generator missed some events. Missing event was a like (subscription to the feed). Restored it.

@pnppl.bsky.social your posts should now appear in the shuffle feed.

Found and fixed a bug, but it is not related to missed events. Not sure that I get what is going with missed events.

Cursor seems to be tracking event stream just fine ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Thanks for the guide. This might be handy at some point for notifying users participating in the feed (if it ever gets more attention) https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:3vekukmab2djjeengw2o3wln/feed/great-shuffle

I know that most likely no one will be using it but who knows!

If there will be interest - I have a few ideas for next steps. For example, it would be nice to notify users selected as authors so that they are aware.