Bluesky + AT Protocol

edge function.

and it's Like Blue Sky the algorithm is a big one in that much to Okay. This is actually the guy. Right? Like, I know that this is this is Wes's URL.

Obviously, he I don't think he's involved as much As people think he is, though. Yeah. Totally. You ever have Game Genie? Oh, no. You don't really play video games growing up. Oh, yeah. I had it. My my, broad that

Okay. Well, also if you're out there and you're you remember Game Genie, go go do some YouTube watching on how Game Genie works because, technically, it's like replacing RAM values. And so the codes that you typed in in a Game Genie were simply just actual values in the RAM that you were swapping. So that way, when the game loaded up and it went to access how many lives you had or something like that, it would access that in RAM and get the new value that you put in there instead of the default. That's how it works. Amazing. It's unreal. It's a,

before we talk to

is built on React Native for web, which,

to my own domain name, but I didn't want somebody to snatch up

as Red, which is something that Webex doesn't even do. So you could do it without a database, really, if you wanted to. Well, now even with the Twitter, the team was just 4 people when we decided to implement mutes and not blocks. We did mute to not blocks because the Federation architecture was not finished, and blocking requires

follows me, I send them a a skeet back and says, hey, wrong account.

who had the most followers, who's extremely easily.

And then I sorted them based on

My old one. So luckily, somebody gave me a 2nd invite and I just squatted on that one, and I've turned that one into a reply bot. So anytime somebody and then I looped through all of my followers I guess. No, the applications itself is kind of how it's displayed, whether it's like, oh, yeah, I'm using the blue sky Our not all of them. Obviously, they're still invites, but it seems like literally everybody

You're meant to mention this specific one. And that was that was kind of an interesting one as well, where I was I used a database to store who Which Skeets I had replied to, then I realized

I did. So I switched from my westbostonbeastguy.social your block list has to be public then? What if you don't want it to be public? In your company, something like that. So the protocol seems very you prove who you are, but everybody's going for these, like, Short vanity domain names because I also own West. Io and

following the most people. And it's funny.

And within

Replies to it Boss.af, Let's talk about so Blue Sky is the platform itself, Yeah. Yeah.

and got their followers. And basically, I just wrote a spider that the entire network.

45 minutes, I had every single account in a JSON file. There was At the time, there was like 37,000 accounts on it.

got a list of my followers, to

The, Twitter API will bankrupt you before you can do a single thing. So Exactly. Yeah. And I built a spider as well that Look. Somebody help me out. Every every minute that ticks by, you're like, someone's gonna take, Do you not know Chrissy Teigen Is my wife from a fan of Sarah Teigen? It's on here yet, so you can't do GIFs.

a get request,

So there's a lot to think about. And that's, I think why they are really focusing on Unfortunately, feed and mark notifications Matt Mullenweg has ma.tt, a data repository is like a git repo, adding friends, and it got out of hand. Yeah. Because you could put you just insert JavaScript into the page, and then it and I love that because it has you have to prove that you own the domain name via a text record in your DNS settings Neighbor had a Game Genie for Goldeneye.

which is like their own

Jay, who is the, I guess, the founder of this, The platforms as well as the the different protocols in the case of this. So The data is there, and algorithms can be great. TikTok has a great algorithm. It shows me stuff that I love seeing.

which is like it's funny because the way it works It's like API .com.atproto.repo.listrecords.

the calls Server to server calls. It maps them, like, directly to a

You know? Like, it was just Oh, yeah. There's no hashtags. Hashtags. No hashtags. Community invented thing. Yeah. There's a lot here. You know? We didn't even get into some of the stuff like it uses XRPC,

general purpose, our PC that they created to use with the protocol.

says

making the protocol and open With the uptake that it has, it was just like a Sunday afternoon, and I opened my Twitter. And there was, like my whole feed was Blue Sky invite. I need a Blue Sky invite. I need a Blue Sky invite. And I was just like, oh, oh, boy.

Didn't know how to respect it. Okay. And then

Like this. What if We will put a couple in the show notes and a couple we'll tweet out at Oh, no. We're not going to tweet them out. We're gonna push people in that direction, And they started with this idea The thing that gets us off Twitter is not going to be a less good version of Twitter.

implement this protocol and to make their own or To to have

The ATP. The ATP authenticated

Well, I mean, you know, things can be multiple things, Wes. They can. Or things can be realized.

Open standard,

Yeah.

know. At at.

which will allow are clearly people who just wrote a bot to follow everybody on the network, and they're getting close Yeah. Which is What happened on Twitter in the early days? People would just follow everybody and then unfollow them, and then it would look like they had that is using this new built on top of this thing called the At protocol. I know you're calling it the AT protocol.

I don't

It's very much The authenticated transfer protocol. Oh, really? Okay. I I I stand corrected on that one. I certainly I basically Even SMS is an open a federated protocol.

the the app protocol itself, The whole idea behind Blue Sky is that Blue Sky is just an app slash client on Android and iOS and to divs,

literally anybody what if the server doesn't listen to my blocks? Right? Like, what if there is and it's because it's almost entirely Something of it. So the the kind of idea behind that is that that can get an invite is actually there and actively posting. Like, I posted

at sign.

over Twitter.

social media as this kind of next evolution inside of social media.

But I I do think that we are seeing a decentralized, Android phones use for rich

cravings, I believe they're called. Yeah.

for for things to be decentralized, it must or or decentralized and blockchain was, like, often hand in hand as the way people talked about a lot of this stuff. Right? So it's good and interesting to see that this is like, hey. This is decentralized, but it's there's none of this, like, web 3 spam about it. They're calling it Web5 or something ridiculous.

the app protocol blockchain. No, it is a federated protocol. It is not blockchain, nor does it use blockchain.

notice how this is not blockchain. And, like, that was everybody's like,

And, whether or not this ends up being, quote, unquote, the winner or not or something else Takes it takes into the space is definitely a a different conversation.

Our, mad at each other and talking about politics like it has that early days kind of excitement feel. And I was like, okay, Politics like it has that early days kind of excitement feel. And I was like, okay, but like when did the baseball players come? You know, like at what point did the, first before they get into that type of thing. And there's there's no DMs or anything like that. But

Apple is the one who, of course, is doing their own walled garden thing of using their own thing instead of the standard.

Some celebrity Teigen. I don't really know who celebrities are. Chrissy Teigen. Chrissy Teigen.

ATP

Blue sky My name is Scott.

reactions. I want it like the standard doesn't allow me to do and see, they have a system in place already Where actual humans will review reports, and Tom from Myspace has already been marked as a fake account. So and I thought I should do those. But, like, West Boss is kind of my thing, so I had to go Go with that.

And they link to Wikipedia article saying a federated protocol is a Pputing or networking providers that agree upon standards of operating in a collective Anyways,

Voice calls or sending payments inside of this type of thing. And then you say, okay, well, like, yeah, XMPP is great because it works everywhere. But At the end of the day, most people don't care. They want features who people are They have, the way they describe it is that

fashion, to native that people have posted and find interesting, and then it ranks it based on How much engagement it's got. And I kind of like that as well. So it's kind of interesting, but I definitely noticed an uptick in engagement once I did pay for it. So

Yeah. Because you can text anybody to any phone number Just as like a that's what you do. Right?

And anywhere in the world on any phone, an SMS

That said, I'm not interesting or if it's because

that just work and they want cool stuff to sit on top of that. So Very curious to see how this will play out. Yeah. It's interesting because, like, With the protocol initially.

Mhmm. And then that kinda died off because people wanted

Chrissy Teigen is married to John Legend. She's a, she's a model. She's an author. She has a lot of, cookbooks, Wes, that actually, I gotta say, the My my favorite cookbooks in our household are Chrissy Teigen's cookbooks,

here. We'll see if people really want a standard.

So do people really want the standard or they just want the functionality?

not from Teigen and Sarah. Not Sarah and Teigen. That's not a thing. I don't know. Teigen is Sarah.

If if you don't got those and and you like cookbooks out there, Sick Pick is, her her cookbooks are fantastic. Happy to party mixes from them, and they're lovely. I'll check that out. So anyway, she just joined, like, 30 minutes ago,

I'm certainly not giving up on Twitter. I

probably would like if, we all stayed on Twitter. I have such a large following there. Yeah. Very nice to to keep. But,

over the years. So and honestly, Wes, I know sorry to to cut you off, but, like,

maybe hasn't gone downhill, but the amount of irritants

People clicking on them or interested in them or just the fact that they're they're interesting things people typically would share. I'm getting nothing, and,

And, honestly, you know, I'm not, like, about to get in fights over the check mark. I didn't pay for it. Don't wanna give that guy money, but, yeah, And I, you know, I think with Twitter verse,

I have seen, like, no engagement of

And Twitter has has definitely increased is using it.

since they introduced like, I feel like I'm effectively shadowbanned. I feel like that when I'm posting now on Twitter, I feel like I'm talking into the void even if I'm sharing useful things that would typically get 61 of Darknet Diaries called Sammy.

Yeah. But I was like, come on. Like, there's no way.

Take back the word from Lil Jon.

handle,

So good. Which I didn't know a dot ski existed. What I really wanted was s c o Or s c dot o t t, but OTT is owned by Dish Network, and they do not let anybody have them. So What about

posted by the whole encryption thing is Is behind this app protocol. If anyone sees a piece of content that is posted by atwestboss.com,

The creator of it jokingly put a thing out that said, I think there's only a handful of devs working on this thing right now, so it's It's almost like, oh, don't grow too quickly. Otherwise, it's become a come like a dumpster fire

Yeah.

Yeah. And it it, inspired me to get a new URL and to get Buy a new domain. So I bought tolin.ski.

You're on my shit list, Scott Yates.

sc0.tt.

As available.

Good luck.

Catch on, but it's it it it's it's just what I wanna say. Like, it's obviously hilarious, but, like, let's take the word. Yeah.

like federated on Blue Sky. So, essentially, people could create essentially their own apps I did not pay for the check mark.

Oh, yeah.

is funny because the whole idea behind the domain name is HTML and CSS, Yeah. I I guess that would work. Right? Like, the

But it is the whole idea is that it is Distributed and that you can take up your

but you can switch to using your own domain name as your handle. So I am at westboss.com, who you are? And I said, Doesn't isn't that what your domain name does? Isn't your domain name proof of who you are? And then I was like, alright. Well,

they can go to westboss.com you can choose

Before you can actually get that domain name. And now if anyone sees a piece of content or anytime somebody

posts on Blue Sky or Skeets.

records and move at any time. And probably the thing that I love most about it, and this is something That we said on the last potluck, somebody said, what do you think about this, like, blockchain thing that will prove cooperation from all entities in the network. If I block someone on my server, okay, where does that information get stored? Just on my server or on other servers that, Who is it? Teigen? account passwords, which I know we Do not know what's up there. Yeah. Yeah. Interesting stuff. Definitely check it out.

Well, you know, one thing about it being decentralized too is that you can have different instances and, I, you know, I don't want this to turn into a coupon code thing where everybody's going nuts. So if you you You did the try the ones in the show notes, and they don't work. That's all we got for now, and we'll we'll keep sharing them on our Twitter as well as, in in the the grand scheme of things, But it it has been one of those projects that I've had bookmarked for a long time, specifically,

do you Do those mean the same thing to you in in this sort of way? Yes, it does, because it's not.

I need a Blue Sky invite. You get that sort of FOMO, so I threw it on there.

React Native for web, I I've since learned is actually, like, a really cool project.

But,

giving you the long form.

I I just called him Nathan, and his name is Nate,

So React Native Web Is also what Twitter.com is built on. And the idea is

or at least he goes by Nate. So Yeah. Sorry, Nate, about

layer transfer protocol. So the protocol itself is an Yeah. It's so cool. Sits in the middle. It sits in between. Anyways, the the verbiage around this in just a second. We will tweet them out at syntaxfm, the equivalent is.

On on the web, and it's,

literally implement anything.

and following people and unfollowing people and muting people,

But what is very interesting to me is that they started Fixed daylight savings for good.

Algorithms can be Really frustrating to a lot of people as well, or they can be skewed in a certain way. Or if you don't like the way that a specific service is Yeah. Yeah. I'm very curious to see if, it has The same sort of feeling You don't have a div tag, but you have whatever Apple comes around, says it's not good enough. I want to do group chat. I want to do the output of But it works pretty well. People have been kind of grouchy at the performance and whatnot, but it's snappy. It's fast. There's obviously bugs, but it's very early days. The people that run Blue Sky themselves are surprised 3 days later, this thing comes around. And the way that you You can obviously you when you sign up, you can get a bsky.social, or scheme.

And you commit your records to that Git repo.

we'll be able to

of, A post No DM was like that as well in the early days. We did, I guess no. We didn't have DMs on Twitter on the 1st day. We didn't even have at,

banning people or or doing whatever, then you go to a service that has different of the past 24 hours out of your Twitter feed and compiles them into thing. So I see everybody's blog post. It's kind kind of like a RSS That's why people go to something like Spotify, and add friend. Next 1. Add friend. Next it was just I don't know how it was built. I'd be curious to talk to the person that built it. But, Well, hey, Wes. You should listen to the episode

1, I I don't know that. I should say I don't totally, a 100% understand how all of this stuff works. Also, I don't think they totally know how All of this stuff works. It is all very much a work in progress.

a place to just sign up.

People do want Basically, And and then once once they took those away, I'll just Jump over to, like, the the lexicons really quickly. We'll come back to finishing up the app protocol.

You're listening to Syntax, the podcast with the tastiest web development treats out there. Strap yourself in and get ready. Here is Scott Silinski and Wes Bos.

can we sky them out? Can you get to to blue sky if you don't have an account? Let me try. I don't think so. I don't think yeah. I'm not sure you can. Well, no. You can't. Okay. So we're not gonna sky him out because

Either. I've been on Blue Sky. So, we're gonna be talking all about what the heck this stuff is and why it matters for you as a developer and What it kinda means in a a bigger picture of everything on the web. So my name is Scott Tolesky. I'm a developer from Denver, and with me as always is

And wants to hook us up. Syntax FM on Blue Sky if you wanna give us more invites.

and then we'll also put a couple in the show notes. And shout out to Matt Stipe, who hooked us up with while being distributed.

Welcome to Syntax.

hears this episode

I I really don't. I've, like, blocked all of them out of my mind because,

Yeah. What what is Hello? What is the Remember, hello? Give me only wholesome posts.

because We have a bunch of invites to Blue Sky to give out.

If these things sound like things you have never heard of, then you are probably not a Twitter user Right? That's the XRPC call. Yeah. But that all that's doing is, like, translating Is it? And SMS?

in in all of the socials whenever we do get more, hopefully, we do. Maybe the new sky,

The new Twitter.

On this Monday, hasty treat, we're going to be talking about blue You can't do video, which is a big thing. You know? For for sports Twitter to move over to this thing, you're gonna have to have at least GIFs and embedded video because On Twitter and Mastodon, in my opinion, it's one of the reasons why Mastodon has had a hard time Gaining traction. Right? People sign up for an instance, and they kinda feel you know, nobody's doing it Or nobody has access to it. I know Substack has their own Twitter clone because Substack and Twitter are fighting even though they both have Same investors.

Skye and the AT protocol.

That's what we'll talk about

We both downloaded the app, Damas, a while ago that's built on Nostr.

And probably have not been on Twitter in the last, I don't know, week or so as the Blue Sky Discord has been absolutely blowing up. And honestly, I haven't been on Twitter

It's it's not necessarily confirmed to be the new Twitter or anything yet because there's been a lot of new Twitters lately. We had Mastodon.

so many of them popped up, and it was like, oh, this is gonna be the one, but,

Cool. So let's get into it. Blue Sky is basically Yeah. So, you

Somebody's gonna take it, and so you gotta get on there. I I was I was resisting the urge to beg for invites, and then I my

a lot of developers And it again, it reminds me of early days of Twitter where you can just make a call. There's no OAuth. There's no Phones.

that it did in the early days of Twitter, and developers are hacking on it and building little tools and things like that. And that's exactly why Twitter exploded is that they had an open API. Literally anybody could use the thing, and people were building all kinds of interesting stuff on top of

likes on it. Like, there's actually people just Kind of milling on it like they are on Twitter. And I think that's really important because in the very early days, I was around when Twitter started up, And it was just tech folk. It was And I I basically so I had the I've had the blue check for, like, 8 years or something like that. I got it not because I'm anyone special, but because They were handing them out to anybody. I would just, like, I I, like, I remember submitting the form and saying, I guess, like, IP addresses and HTTP and, like, right before this And then

minutes ago, and it has 36 Being verified, which is obviously silly because now it's just whoever pays for it, it doesn't actually mean anything. And that's a little frustrating because they don't necessarily Has my data. All of my skeets are okay.

coding and that type of stuff. And what you get shown and How it's displayed and then the applications itself, like,

My resisting only lasted so long before I was on Twitter begging for invites.

Scott at blue. Of course, I had no chance of getting Scott at Blue Sky, but,

talking about That is one implementation of this protocol. But as I see it, you could protocol.

So I I wanna talk really quickly just about, like, Like why social media is important,

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and why I think it's kind of interesting that developers, like all developers where you want to go for And I I think the important part of that is

said I need a blue sky invite? Yeah.

You can revoke at any time and it doesn't have full access to your account. So I built that. I built obviously, there there's a lot going on.

just a little CLI to pull in a list of Skeets and display them

that to a git request to XRPC forward slash com.atprotocol.repo.list.

So it's like almost like It matches directly with the API request. With that thing, it it it's just like a quick little swap of of how that request is actually taking place. So there's, like, really interesting stuff. And you even got to mess around with their API quite a bit,

Blue Sky itself. Blue Sky,

feeder of anything a something that posts.

It's like a it basically takes all the links you can use the notifications The quality of Twitter

if you're not paying for the product, you are the product. Right? Yeah. But, like, Twitter's asking you to be both the product and to pay for it. Like, you will pay to be the product. And, like, to me that, like, what? It just really rubs me the wrong way. So let's let's get into,

built on the at least the app portion of it built on React Native.

Like, the web developers There were some people that had, like, like a 1000000 friends on MySpace and people would buy this thing called BatterAdder, Where you

Twitter is pay to play, which sucks because you shouldn't have to do that. And I think that's a lot of why we're really excited about Blue Sky. Yeah. I think the the big problem there is that they

often say that if you're not like the

But yeah. It could very well it could very well be disappeared this time next year. We have no clue. I feel like it is It's good enough. I feel like it has really good uptake in the dev community. And I think that like it's it's kind of on us to

it might flop, already, which is, like, amazing. Yeah. I I dipped into it right away because I was like, this is Super interesting. So I wrote I wrote a couple of things. First, I wrote

To at least give it a good shot, you know? So if you're listening to this podcast,

try get an invite, try try jump on it and, like, Give this thing an honest shot as a at least the dev community place for chatting. Yeah. Totally. And I'm I'm personally going to at least commit 2. I re deleted the Twitter app off of my phone. 1, because it's compulsive enough for me anyway. So I'm the type of person who's gonna pop up in Twitter all the time when I shouldn't be.

I think, can publish these immutable schemas different instances will work. Right? But Tokens. Literally, they didn't even you just had to put your username and password in initially. Now they have a concept of app passwords where you can, like, make a one off password for your band. So I imagine Man, that would be sweet because Matt Mullen.

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in emotionally on Twitter, then that's all. Pro for me, regardless. Later. Peace.

So get getting rid of the Twitter app,

dependency Sports Twitter Nathan on the show here a few episodes ago, I would have said that I don't I don't know how I feel about that.

not as a means to exclude anybody who is not on Blue Sky yet, But as a means of of controlling my own personal browsing habits. So, yeah, if I can wean off some of my, we've often talked about, like, What is the next Twitter? If Twitter happens to go the way of Myspace,

I have the Blue Sky app on there, and I'm trying not to check it compulsively, but still at least Committing to when I'm away from my computer, not using Twitter,

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or I just want to do something on my own. So the idea is that this is a standard However, if you do want to go somewhere else, With a heavy emphasis on proving network, Oh, no way. Where it shows how to use it. Oh, man. I I never use this on MySpace because, like, you had to buy it. I didn't either.

standards are great until it just warmed out. Man, Matterhouse is a YouTube channel.

Then then what do you do? That's what happened with RSS. People move to Different algorithms.

and it's horse time. Yeah, exactly.

A horse And it would literally do that. It would just click Yeah. You could host an internal one

because.

that define the different types. So I would imagine you could also host you can compile the like the view It's not Mastodon.

somebody wants to do something custom

In the schema, it can be

you know, compiled from

And Twitter got rid of their RSS feeds, you know, like 16 invites. These are things that are impossible to come by, and He just casually had 16 laying around. So decide

On top of that, and they they say I can't move fast enough to keep up with these standards of different things. But they also have a lot of good stuff In place already, which is the ability to report somebody for impersonation.

What happens when people want features that are not part of the standard? Right.

Diminished the output of It it has. Yeah. It has. So I paid for it, about 4 or 5 months ago, and I I very clearly remember saying, You can define custom schemas, and I think that is really interesting because the first time I looked at that, I'm like, oh, cool. Another open standard.

posting content to Twitter is a big part of that. So Records can have different schemas. So obviously, a Twitter like piece a record And then the thing that consumes all of those records that are Across all the different repos, I'm assuming it's at protocol because of the whole Yeah. Yeah.

I can upload more than 2 minutes, which is really nice. I've done a couple of those. And then there's obviously the algorithmic benefits to it as well. And As somebody who

blues or, the the whole blue check mark thing has essentially,

I have a blog. Like, I think that was my that was my That was early. Yeah. And they're like, sure. You have a blog? that you have

Which was I want the you know what is a very good example of that? And boy, was I wrong about that? So they threw it to me.

I don't know. I I have no idea if that's because, aesthetically,

it sort of gets tangled up in the They have a whole FAQ. Is like go back to the show with Nate. He's He has Tema GUI. It's kind of the same idea of React Native Web is that you just have like a text component. You don't have a paragraph tag, you have a text component.

makes his living,

I don't say care about that.

longer video. I want 1080p video. So now I can upload in higher quality.

there's actually some features on Twitter, Blue, that I wanted,

User focused or facing app. There was no nobody on it, obviously. It was it was always being discussed as,

the things about the AT protocol, which we'll get into in this episode. But I I've been looking at it for a long time, and it's been on my radar as something that exists, but there was there's no Yes. And that was, like, just a just in case That one ends up blowing up. We got in early so I could get the at Scott handle on it. But,

Jack's New social network that is the exact same as Twitter, It's generic, they say, so you can use it for other things. But,

because I I would by all accounts, you and I got on even pretty early And from what I've heard, the staging did I pick the right instance? I got I I I created a Mastodon,

Twitter part too, even though it's not really, you know, his app necessarily.

Yeah. People also use that as, like, a negative. Like, this guy's gonna screw it up. And I was like, well, the guy kinda made that follow me know who I am. I don't I don't need that. But I actually like the the features, and there's this feature called It is entirely distributed. It's not blockchain.

The biggest social network in the world, and he's got he has his bag. Like, he's probably infinitely wealthy now. Like, maybe he would want to make a 2nd run. Like, I was like, maybe this is the Dino of Twitter.

But it it took off like wildfire, and pretty much everybody is there now. Yeah. It it's interesting for me to think of, like, the first people I saw on this,

with some caveats of which we'll talk about that are mostly involved in the the technical side of things. Right? Yeah. But in in reality, I think he's just an investor on it or an early investor. And so I think that that definitely yeah, the the blue sky is basically the the next in a long string of attempts at taking

probably was part of what Propelled people into wanting to do this. Oh, this guy made Twitter. I bet he could, I bet he could make this other and that seems to be a positive for most people, including myself, actually. It's hilarious because, like, you cut back to

It's going to be something else.

So we're not saying that blue sky. I also said,

He's a he's a evil villain. He's contentious.

That was actually back in Myspace days.

Wanted to add more friends, so the worm added some friends, and then they went to sleep. And then they woke up and there was like it was they they wrote a a basic worm that was However,

I'll link to that in the show notes. Oh, yeah. I remember that one. Sammy was a great episode where they talked about one of the first worms that this person accidentally wrote on Myspace for adding friends. They basically Site, which is staging.bsky.app, We have,

The almost all the top accounts And then yesterday she says, please don't make Skeets which is, I guess, like, that

a lot of followers, which is You could have it there clicking the follow button really quickly.

account. But when the account creation process popped up for me, I got, like, instance, it's interesting where it, like, maps

this service.

pick your server on Discord. Right? In Discord, it makes a lot of sense because you you sign in to the syntax Discord,

that are their own instances Things in place. Right? So you can Yeah. I heard I heard of a blue sky algorithm that is only wholesome posts.

The same way when you sign up for Mastodon, it asks you to pick your server. Or when you sign up for Discord, it asks you to pick your,

paralysis. I was like, I have no idea what server to pick. And because of that, I'm, like, delaying signing up for this thing because I don't wanna pick the wrong one. Oh, I wanna be in front end social, but front end social is not taking sign ups anymore.

and then you're talking with a bunch of syntax fans.

in any sort of federated type of social media.

know, it it isn't just a Twitter clone at that, that where the the protocol ends up being a big deal. And we're seeing kind of the future of social media in general move in this direction on all fronts.

The only thing is that nothing's really caught on in this space, good for me. And then

in place right now. I did see that there was, they were their servers were slowing down because people were,

Now that people there's there seems to be no rate limiting in place. I asked them, do you have rate limits? They're like, we haven't decided on that yet. But, like, I accidentally many people's other ones were oh, that's that's the other good example is that XMPP, Wes Bos. How's it going, my man? Hey. Pretty good. Pretty good. Excited to we're recording this on a Friday, I I don't know why this is the one that is Taking off. And I don't know. I would love to go back on, like, the Twitter. Like, who was it that, like, initially That was the, like, open chat format.

I put, like, a 200 millisecond wait in between every request. I forgot. I took it out one time, and it made, like, 10,000 requests Oh, in, like, like, 50 seconds or something like that. And I was like, oh, I guess there's no rate limiting, in Blue Sky.

trying to brute force

But there was, like, guys in bands that would just run this thing 247 because it was such good promo

And

if you log in to Blue Sky,

Visually, functionally, it is very much a clone of Twitter, So what what else It's distributed and by. So, like, when you said distributed, you said you could move it. And a lot of people will say, like, decentralized too. Do does decentralized and distributed, It's capitalized, a t. It's Yeah. Yeah. It's true. What does it stand for? It stands for, I actually do know what it stands for. Thank you very much. It stands for, Communications inside of messages. And now

And

we talked about it probably not being just a Twitter clone.

what is their Facebook to their Myspace? a lot of different what was some of those other ones where it's like notes is one. Something called notes, but I have is apparently another one. There's Yeah. There there's lots of them out there.

also

of

It's it's very early, and this thing could be gamed

and everyone's freaking out. And it's kind of interesting because With Twitter, it was devs in the early days, and it has this, like, magical feel where not everybody is Chagrin.

The the the Twitter thread boys start showing up and giving us tips and that stuff, that kind of thing, because What could could Elon possibly do to Twitter? You know, like, the guy's not an idiot. I think I said the guy's not an idiot. And, like, like, I understand

What do I pick? I just pick the first one, I guess. I pick the first one. But with Blue Sky, it was like, here's the here's the do people, like, people want that or do they act like, our r s c. Do you know or RCS? Do you know what RCS is? Rich communication services is a standard that Dottt? I don't think that does exist. It does. Not multiple.

on this protocol.

but that is part of the the whole protocol. And part of The future of this stuff is being able to have different instances and different servers

is, like, almost all video. Right? You're showing highlights. You're showing clips. You're showing, you know, events that took place. The blocking thing is really interesting. So

I haven't,

There's no multimedia Here's the path for Blue Sky. You sign in, whatever. They haven't launched any of the federation stuff yet,

you know, I I would love to have that blocking functionality in there. I Also write a, you know, a thread today that says, like, when you delete Escape now, it's, like, goes into the trash and isn't exactly Deleted from their system. So, like, that's still something. Oh, yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. There's a lot a lot there. There's no blocking, unfortunately, yet, but you can mute people. So I've already started meeting some people,

but I Yeah. And and also too, like, in in that same regard of being decentralized. So right now,

The there's definitely, like, early days. There's no link shortener on it. So if you post a big old link, it's gonna take up a bunch of your Characters when you're trying to keep your characters under a limit. So you gotta go elsewhere for a link shortener.