Kuba Suder • @mackuba.eu on 🦋

Independent Mac/iOS & web developer. Building useless random stuff in Swift, Ruby or JavaScript and wasting time.

I'm mostly hanging out on Bluesky these days and hacking things on the AT Protocol, so follow me there 😎 

🐦 @kuba_suder 🦋 @mackuba.eu

Location: Mariner Valley, Martian Congressional Republic
Blog: https://mackuba.eu
Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/mackuba.eu
Languages: Polish, English, Swift, Ruby

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NIP-05 Address

mackuba_at_martianbase.net@momostr.pink

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2024-07-08 14:37:15

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Updated charts from today: https://bsky.app/profile/mackuba.eu/post/3kwrp7j3ytv2q

2024-07-07 01:21:11

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last update from 2 weeks ago here: https://snarfed.org/2024-06-24_53250, the key part is: "opt in prompts via DM, both directions, soon"
There's been a lot of progress in the last 2 months, basically all these things that weren't working are mostly working now.

2024-07-07 01:06:52

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What I mean is, he's planning to soon add the mechanism that he promised those people in That Thread, that you'd be able to request a follow from someone on the other side and the first time someone wants to follow them, they'll get a DM from the bridge asking if they want to enable it. So it will be a bit more automatic than it is now. AFAIK this is supposed to take a form of DMing the bridge account with the handle of the target account. He mentioned this in the last status update.

2024-07-07 00:54:40

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I think it's undecided what to do about the Fedi>Bluesky direction, it *might* actually end up as auto-accept, because DMs on B are restricted by default, and he doesn't want to send public request messages

2024-07-07 00:53:09

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no no, I mean that it's going to be implemented ;)

2024-07-07 00:48:52

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one is posts per source (the more "toothy" one because of weekends), one is users per source, third is just P users from the second one (= non-Bluesky and non-Bridgy PDSes)

2024-07-07 00:46:58

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AFAIK Snarfed has the DM request mechanism on a short list of things to do now, so this should hopefully come in not so far future - I'm really looking forward to this, because I'm just gonna spam all accounts I'm following here with follow requests from Bluesky then

2024-07-07 00:43:12

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btw, I'm tracking the amount of daily posts and posting users coming over the bridge from Fedi to Bluesky, here's how it's looking at the moment: https://bsky.app/profile/mackuba.eu/post/3kvppyqptqk25 (green is Fedi, so around 1000 accounts bridging their posts daily to Bluesky)

2024-07-07 00:38:36

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the bridge account seems to have 4.4K followers (but 3.6K follows), so something on that order… obviously I don't know the answer to the second question 😉 (though I guess: most aren't?)

2024-07-03 17:41:26

I kinda wish Twitter would federate with ATProto or ActivityPub, like Threads does at least

2024-06-28 18:10:42

As a software developer, your superpower is that whenever you have a problem, you can just try to solve it by writing software, which is what you're good at and which lets you do almost anything.
As a developer, your problem is that when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail… 🙃

2024-06-26 15:57:14

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Did Bluesky the company really say they're a part of the Fediverse because of Bridgy?

2024-06-10 17:20:49

Ooh, customizable app-specific controls in Control Center look nice 👀 #WWDC24

2024-06-05 02:07:08

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I'm guessing it's much more likely for things to get buggy on a 200k user instance than it is on a personal one…

2024-06-05 01:29:27

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Hmm, Authorized Fetch is required to react to deletes? That doesn't sound right, I don't have it on (I think most instances don't?) and I've definitely seen some statuses in the feed disappear from before my eyes

2024-06-05 01:23:14

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Ooh, interesting, you're right! I clicked "open the original page" and it looks like the post isn't there on the source account, but it's showing up on mastodon.social in the feed. I wonder why the delete hasn't synced there…

2024-06-05 01:13:33

One thing that's definitely in the top 3 most annoying things on #Mastodon for me is that I see a post on https://mastodon.social now on the #bluesky feed, I want to reply to it, and there's literally no way to do it… nothing works, I don't know why, no error messages, who the hell thought this is good UX 😖
https://martianbase.net/system/media_attachments/files/112/561/357/671/358/180/original/a60ecdf716b60a83.jpeg

2024-05-30 22:25:38

#Bluesky traffic tonight:
https://martianbase.net/system/media_attachments/files/112/532/380/840/136/119/original/96962f659e62dad4.png

2024-05-30 01:57:15

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I'm pretty sure it was you who stopped responding in that thread… 🫣

2024-05-24 18:25:07

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Yeah, it's… kind of a religion for some…

2024-05-24 18:13:42

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I'm guessing you've missed the news about Bluesky and Jack… 😅

2024-05-23 13:09:41

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Yes, I know it seems that way to the Fedi folks, because they're looking from the Fedi perspective so they're kinda naturally looking for things working the same way, like humans expecting aliens to be two-legged two-eyed humanoids 👽
To me, decentralization is not a 0-1, it's a spectrum, or rather things can be decentralized to a different degree in different ways. Bluesky/ATProto is *somewhat* decentralized and it's gradually getting more decentralized, step by step.

2024-05-23 13:00:01

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At the moment, yes, because they're running the only AppView and Relay. But that could change maybe a year from now, anyone can set up those, it's just not as easy. Once there are other AppViews and Relays, you will be able to post and communicate from those external PDSes and be seen by others, even if Bluesky decides to block you.

2024-05-22 22:33:44

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Yeah, a lot of people want DMs badly, so they've decided to build something usable quickly for now

2024-05-10 01:18:44

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That is probably the main reason, yeah 😅

2024-05-10 01:17:44

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And the funniest thing is, Nostr users as a community are probably in general waaaaay less "compatible" with Mastodon users than Bluesky users are (hint: fans of crypto, libertarians etc. vs. mostly also leftist/liberal/anti-capitalist leaning people)

2024-05-10 01:13:00

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Who knows, maybe you've said something there and not here and they didn't make a connection 🤷🏻‍♂️
I even had it happen more than once that someone unblocked me after blocking me for months, because someone mentioned me, they suddenly realized I'm not actually a monster, and then… they followed me… 🤨

2024-05-10 01:06:46

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There is a so called "blocking discourse" that comes up from time to time.
And if you just mention that you don't like this blocking culture - guess what, you get blocked by more people!

2024-05-10 01:05:59

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For some reason a significant part of Bluesky users are huge fans of blocking, it pisses me off… You get blocked for something you wrote somewhere to someone else, or because they don't like your "vibes" or whatever, even when you haven't interacted with that person. And then random parts of threads everywhere are inaccessible to you. And people are like "hey listen everyone, block early and block often, you don't have to explain yourself to anyone"...

2024-05-04 02:06:59

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In one direction 🙂 Bridging my Bluesky account here. I generally mostly post on Bsky and cross-post here, so my posts here are mostly a subset of what's there, so there's not much point bridging this account there.

2024-05-04 01:51:32

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it seems to take some time (measured in hours), things are still very wonky

2024-04-08 00:43:18

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I've heard about it, but… on a 1-person instance, if you don't follow people who post that, it shouldn't come to you by itself? I've just followed the people who I want to read and who don't post too much or create too much noise.

2024-04-08 00:24:21

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Hmm… I'm on a single-user instance, and I do basically zero moderation work. I just followed the people I'm interested in, and I see their posts... (but I don't have any relays or anything else configured that would be somehow streaming random content into my instance)