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@gruber.foo found a leftover word
March 12, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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@gruber.foo just noticed this typo
February 2, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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Full thread:
Thread from @skeetsapp.com For everyone requesting the "save my timeline scroll position across app restarts": I worked on this over the holidays and had it almost done when i hit a wall. The API will only let me query the user's timeline ~5000 posts into the past. This sounds like a lot, but it also contains all the comments the people you follow post. So depending on the number of users you follow and how much they post this can be anything from 1 day to 5 days. For me personal it's ~24h. So when saving your currently read post and trying to restore the timeline after a restart later it's possible that I cannot load that post any longer. I've already created a bug report / feature request in the @bsky.app repo (cc @dholms.xyz @pfrazee.com ) I will make the feature available to Pro users anyhow as an opt-in. Maybe it works for you and make the app more enjoyable. So let's hope the backend adds support for loading older timeline items soon.
February 2, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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Just checked the latest App Store release notes:
App Store Skeets app update 1.22.0 (2 weeks ago) Happy New Year! NEW: • Skeets Pro Feature: Save reading position between relaunches (Beta implementation, activate in Feed-Settings). For more information read https://bsky.app/profile/skeetsapp.com/post/3lfa32kfctc26
February 2, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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@gruber.foo does this describe what you mentioned in your post?
Screenshot of the Skeets for Bluesky app listing page in the iOS App Store which mentions “your reading position will be saved”
February 2, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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Jack Dorsey: All that said, I really respect Jay. She was under a lot of pressure to survive and do the things that she did. But directionally, I just don't align with it. And I'd love to see more effort placed on open protocols akin to Nostr, which hits every single attribute that I was searching for when we originally kicked this idea off. If you go back to my thread, and Mike Masnick's Protocols, Not Platforms article, it hits every single one of those things, whereas Bluesky ultimately just went another direction. Mike Solana: Yeah, once I had access, Bluesky really just confused me. It didn't present as an underlying technology people, maybe even Twitter, would be building on top of. I mean it looked, felt, and functioned like just another version of Twitter. Jack Dorsey: It was the anti-Twitter. People were literally running from Twitter to Bluesky, and that is not a way to build something successful.
November 27, 2024 at 9:09 AM
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Jack Dorsey: Around the same time, I found Nostr. We don't know who the leader is, it's like this anonymous Brazilian. It has no board, no company behind it, no funding. It's a truly open protocol. The development environment is moving fast. And I gave a bunch of money to them. Day by day, I learned that this was actually the path. It emerged from something that was not Twitter-driven, it was a reaction to Twitter's failures, and I thought that was right as well. That's what I should help, and that's what I should support. So I just decided to delete my account on Bluesky, and really focus on Nostr, and funding that to the best of my ability. I asked to get off the board as well, because I just don't think a protocol needs a board or wants a board. And if it has a board, that's not the thing that I wanted to help build or wanted to help fund.
November 27, 2024 at 9:05 AM
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Jack Dorsey: This tool was designed such that it had, you know, it was a base level protocol. It had a reference app on top. It was designed to be controlled by the people. I think the greatest idea — which we need - is an algorithm store, where you choose how you see all the conversations. But little by little, they started asking Jay and the team for moderation tools, and to kick people off. And unfortunately they followed through with it. That was the second moment I thought, uh, nope. This is literally repeating all the mistakes we made as a company. This is not a protocol that's truly decentralized. It's another app. It's another app that's just kind of following in Twitter's footsteps, but for a different part of the population. Everything we wanted around decentralization, everything we wanted in terms of an open source protocol, suddenly became a company with VCs and a board. That's not what I wanted, that's not what I intended to help create.
November 27, 2024 at 9:01 AM
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lol I should’ve just kept reading instead of posting all that
Jack Dorsey: And then, as you know, Elon backed off [on the acquisition], and that disaster happened [laughs], until he finally bought it, which was the worst timeline ever. But throughout all that, it became more and more evident that Bluesky had a lot of great ideas. And they're ideas I believe in. I think the internet needs a decentralized protocol for social media. I think Elon needs it. I think X needs it. I think it removes liability for the company, to separate those layers. But what happened is, people started seeing Bluesky as something to run to, away from Twitter. It's the thing that's not Twitter, and therefore it's great. And Bluesky saw this exodus of people from Twitter show up, and it was a very, very common crowd.
November 27, 2024 at 8:57 AM
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i see a lot of irony in this bc when elon bought twitter, he ended the partnership with bluesky…
Mike Solana: You didn't just leave Bluesky's board, you deleted your profile. That feels pretty meaningful. Right off the bat, the most obvious question: why did you leave? Jack Dorsey: Well, can we back up for some context for why we started it? Mike Solana: Yes, would love to. Jack Dorsey: We were doing something similar to what we did at Square at the time, which was fund a bunch of open source developers to work on the Bitcoin protocol, because it directly benefited everything Square was doing in terms of money movement. I wanted to do something similar with Twitter, because it was the only way to get out of a lot of the issues we were seeing around the decisions we had to make on accounts, and the pressures we had as a public company based entirely on a brand advertising model. The only way to do it was to remove the protocol layer from Twitter and make it something we didn't control.
November 27, 2024 at 8:46 AM
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