The original Jetstream is <i>really cool</i> - 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.<p>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: <a href="https://tools.simonwillison.net/bluesky-firehose" rel="nofollow">https://tools.simonwillison.net/bluesky-firehose</a>
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.<p>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.<p>I think it'd make a nice little system.
I think you just invented blockchain DNS (e.g. <a href="https://handshake.org/" rel="nofollow">https://handshake.org/</a>) without the byzantine tolerance.
How do you prove you own a domain with no records?
this is not quite what you are asking for but <a href="https://marque.at" rel="nofollow">https://marque.at</a> exists
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.
<a href="https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto-website" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto-website</a><p>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.
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.<p>I disable animations entirely on devices I use where possible. They just waste time and that adds up if you use something regularly.
I haven't looked at it on mobile, that's unfortunate to hear. I don't see any animation when interacting with it on a desktop browser, snapping open a left side header menu item to see sub-items seems instant.
It should take time for you too appreciate the main text becoming blurry and unreadable and to prepare your brain for the new batch of text
Gonna go out on a limb here and say css transitions are not what they are talking about.
Looks like astro starlight
Building resilient protocol services on ATProto is a fascinating direction for decentralized architectures. Great to see robust tooling expanding here.
Suppose this would be an example of what they meant by 'expands beyond the app'<p>Related:<p><i>Bluesky's active user base is shrinking as its focus expands beyond the app</i><p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49263461">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49263461</a>
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 <a href="https://status.bsky.app/" rel="nofollow">https://status.bsky.app/</a> and then whatever history just basically disappears as if nothing ever goes wrong, it's not a good vibe.<p>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 <i>changes</i> to the platform are addressed easily.
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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.<p>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.
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.
> I've built my own client for Twitter.<p>Didn't they terminate free API access? How does your client work?
As a researcher who spent most of my graduate program trying to scrape twitter to do sentiment analysis. I do not believe you.
Neat protocol, shame about the users.<p>Also the VC-backed funding for this infrastructure will run out eventually. It's not self-sustaining, and Bluesky have no viable route to profitability.
[Bluesky proves that for social media, no matter what your technology stack, capabilities, or mission, if your community is awful, growth will never follow.](<a href="https://blueskyfeeds.com/bluesky-user-growth?t=3m" rel="nofollow">https://blueskyfeeds.com/bluesky-user-growth?t=3m</a>)
> no matter what your technology stack, capabilities<p>We haven't had many of the good sets of these to get any proof
Twitter seemed to have no issue growing so that doesn't seem right.
> shame about the users<p>I use Bluesky regularly and have a fine experience. Yes, there’s an irritating minority of users. But so goes any social network, Twitter especially. At least the owners of Bluesky aren’t espousing Great Replacement Theory…
I also have a fine experience, but only by switching to the For You feed full-time and mostly sticking to my compsci-academic-tech-programming neck of the woods. Minority or not, the users GP mentions are so obnoxious that it affects the 'vibe' of the platform as a whole. Look up any "Top Posts" tracker/feed/whatever. No matter that I even (mostly) resonate with the underlying political leanings, I find the tone pretty dreadful.<p>Of course, the same applies to whatever remains of Twitter now.