20% serious on this: bluesky shouldve negotiated a million dollar less in exchange for Blockchain Capital to remove the 'blockchain' from their name. terms of the round seems fine, but just being now publicly associated with a VC with Blockchain in the name is a major ding in public perception RE:

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Bluesky now has 13M+ users, the @atproto.com developer ecosystem continues to grow, and we’ve shipped features like DMs and video! We’re excit...

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hot take: that its a blockchain based VC fund as lead shows that (at least some) crypto based investors at least have a better understanding of where the state of the internet is headed than most other groups of people RE:

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Our lead, Blockchain Capital, shares our view that tech should serve people, not the reverse, and their extensive experience with dev communities i...

Last Week in the ATmosphere This weeks atproto news: - 2 million new accounts join Bluesky - store files on your PDS with ATFile - further interoperability between the atproto apps by the Japanese dev community Read at: [fediversereport.com/last-week-in...](

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A new signup wave for Bluesky with 2 million new accounts, a way to store arbitrary files on your PDS, the Japanese Bluesky apps continue to build ...

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Last Week in the ATmosphere – Oct 2024 week 4

A new signup wave for Bluesky with 2 million new accounts, a way to store arbitrary files on your PDS, the Japanese Bluesky apps continue to build ...

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people dont realise that either bsky stays niche (lets say sub 20m accounts) in which case it sucks it it fails, but no big loss overall. But if it gets big (100m+), were gonna see one of the biggest digital gold rushes weve ever seen. RE:

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so [@newsdetective.bsky.social](

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News Detective (@newsdetective.bsky.social)

Making the truth transparent to all. We can fact-check posts on Bluesky for you. Just subscribe to the labeler AND follow us. When you see misin...

) is a fact checking labeler for bluesky. Ive been subscribed for a month, and this is the first post Ive seen that they've labeled. They labeled it as 'True Fact'. Fucking amazing lol, 10/10 https://shimeji.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:mdjhvva6vlrswsj26cftjttd&cid=bafkreie5smevmmsq2o4gf2khych2luvplndv6vjgr26a2y2rlxiqpp4ppq

so [@newsdetective.bsky.social](

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News Detective (@newsdetective.bsky.social)

Making the truth transparent to all. We can fact-check posts on Bluesky for you. Just subscribe to the labeler AND follow us. When you see misin...

) is a fact checking labeler for bluesky. Ive been subscribed for a month, and this is the first post Ive seen that they've labeled. They labeled it as 'True Fact'. Fucking amazing, 10/10 RE:

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CNN (@cnn.com)

Kamala Harris lifted language from a Republican attorney when she testified in front of Congress in 2007, a CNN review of her testimony finds. http...

is there research as to why local store owners consistently across time and space seem to think that no cars means no business? RE:

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One of the most successful pedestrian streets in the world, the Strøget in Copenhagen was filled with cars until a 2 year pilot project in 1962. T...

is there an ebook management program like Calibre that has a better UI? calibre works fine, its just not enjoyable to use. Im always pretty skeptical of programs where the documentation to customise the UI starts with listing the various environmental variables you can tweak

plus there's the opportunity cost of not moving while its still relatively early its not like bluesky is this static place thats gonna peacefully wait for the big news outlets to come over here; theres a demand for news, and other accounts will move in to fill the gap RE:

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Nikkei, one of Japan's largest newspapers, has added a share to Bluesky button RE:

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