i think this results in two types of social media platforms: one for engaging with your friends, and one for distributing information current platforms smash these use cases together, but the rise of LLMs makes it necessary to separate these use cases again RE:

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ae (@aelkus.bsky.social)

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for this week's atproto news I'm comparing todays Dutch election result with how active the politicians are on Bluesky and in other news: - GreenEarth is building personalised algos on atproto, with 300k in funding - more interop between publishing platforms - polls on leaflet [ATmosphere Report #140 - its s...](

ATmosphere Report #140 - its still all politics - Connected Places

Comparing the Dutch election results with how active politicians are on Bluesky

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figuring out the UX of federation is hard. advantage of having 2 open protocols is that they can learn from each other todays lesson for atproto: look at the activitypub-federated SocialHub forum to understand the downsides of forum<>microblogging federation RE:

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Laurens Hof (@mastodon.laurenshof.online)

turns out that federating forums by ingesting microblogs with hashtags is an absolutely disastrous idea even worse, while forum<>forum federation ...

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