Notices by Kuba Suder • @mackuba.eu on 🦋 (mackuba@martianbase.net)

Oh lol, I missed this email… after 2 months of back-and-forth with Apple Support, I'm finally a Certified EU Trader* 🏅

(*) with currently 1 app in the store which makes a couple of $ per month and 2 apps which were removed from the store for lack of updates for years

I am the Darkness… 🐈⬛

#cat #blackcat

@steter I think that's default system browser in general? Or is that somewhere else? (what was in "General" before pre-Ventura)

Why the hell is this in the "Widgets" section of "Desktop & Dock" in System Pref~~~ Settings ಠ_ಠ

Is it a dark pattern if you explicitly say you're doing a dark pattern and that you're good? 🤔

@laurenshof @tchambers I'm curious to read your thoughts on this, because I feel like limiting is a good choice, one that still leaves users in control instead of arbitrarily making a decision who they can follow for them

@jwildeboer I won't argue that it isn't as decentralized in practice as AP right now, I'm just saying that "they promise that in future you might be able to run your own relay" is misleading, because you can do that today

@jwildeboer you can absolutely run your own relay and people have already done that for testing at least

@Claire @eramdam @cwebber Yeah, anyone can connect to any PDS (it's the exact same endpoint as the one for the firehose on the relay). A new relay may get a list of PDSes or find them somehow, but a PDS can also ask a relay to connect. I'm assuming even with some double-digit number of connections it would still be less resources than a well-connected Mastodon instance.

I feel like some ActivityPub-focused people are kind of still waiting for Bluesky to finish and launch something they were building, not having noticed that they already did a while ago, they've just missed it because it doesn't look exactly like what they were looking out for…

#bluesky #atproto

@hallenbeck @markdarb @mmasnick There was a thread here https://github.com/snarfed/bridgy-fed/issues/835 back in February, when the bridge's author announced he was preparing to launch it, with some Mastodon users saying very, very nasty things to him there…

@TheManyVoices @Sarahp But how many of those 15M are active accounts? Around 1 mln monthly as fast as I know, unless you have better data.

@BeAware I'm gonna have a list & search of Bsky->Masto and Masto->Bsky bridged accounts at some point on my site, but it's waiting for a better day when something else isn't prioritized… 😉

@BeAware @dynamic @danie10 Yeah, there's an artificial limit of 10 accounts right now enforced at the Relay so things don't get out of hand too quickly before shit's fully ready (it can be raised on request, but I think only Bridgy has did that so far).

Oh and one more thing, web UI isn't really integrated with the AppView, it's just a web-based JS client in the same way as Elk is for Mastodon. It's technically not any more privileged that any third party app, it's just "the official one".

@BeAware @dynamic @danie10 But you can log in from another web client like Skeetdeck to a Bluesky-hosted PDS, or from bsky.app to a self-hosted PDS

@BeAware @dynamic @danie10 So, correction, *all* of your data has its "original location" at your PDS - all kinds of records (profile, posts, likes, follows, non-Bluesky records like WhiteWind blog posts), "blobs" like attached images, and even videos now. You can even put non-Bsky records like whtwnd posts on your Bluesky-hosted PDS.

They aren't usually directly served from there (data is served from the AppView, media from Bluesky CDN), but they can always be fetched from the original source.

@BeAware @Blaze @fediverse Yeah, so it's not a bad explanation, maybe a bit biased ;)

The key is that the architecture is very different, and there isn't a direct equivalent of instances. There are PDSes, but they do much less than Fedi instances, and they also don't directly talk to (federate with) each other. The data flows from PDSes to relay(s) to AppView(s) and to clients.

@BeAware @gulfkiwi 😏

Brazil's Supreme Court now has an official #Bluesky account *with a verified official domain* 👀

https://bsky.app/profile/stf.jus.br

@BeAware It's like when you log in to your Mastodon/Fedi account in an app, you're shown your server's login page in a browser and then "Do you want to authorize app X to do Y?" and you press "Authorize". And in Bluesky/ATProto at the moment you enter that "app password" at the moment to log in, you give the app password to the third party app itself instead of to your server's login form. It's less secure because they get that password itself instead of a token & they get access to whole acct.