maybe if more ppl from this corner follow [@bcherny.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy]( ) he’ll start posting here too 🤔 RE:
this is probably the best articulation i’ve seen for what’s happening now in programming as well as the distractions in the discourse RE:
shoutout to the bluesky team for running this site during probably the strangest times to run such a site
i sent a PR yesterday to make all feeds receive the interests selected during onboarding. currently only Bluesky-run feeds (like Discover) get them which severely undercuts third party feeds’ ability to serve relevant content for new users who don’t have any likes. i hope the team considers this [Send interests to all feeds by...]( )
[@spacecowboy17.bsky.social]( ) i’m sure you’ve written about it before somewhere, but is there a concise description of how For You is different from Popular With Friends? is it essentially that it finds likers with similar taste rather than just posts liked by people you follow?
ironically using the For You feed also makes Discover better because it lets you find more adjacent people, and the Likes and Follows you make on For You end up helping Discover too RE: View quoted note →
i wonder how much of this is people using the For You feed which does a much better job at finding “your” cluster RE:
one thing i don’t see talked about a lot is the psychological aftereffects of exposure to AI “for work”. i actually don’t know if we know what they are. i don’t mean psychotic episodes it triggers in some or the delusions etc. i feel like i get some kind of… hangover of uncanny. like i ate plastic
@Chimney Sweepers Local 420 seems like delete would be nice to add https://morel.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:fpruhuo22xkm5o7ttr2ktxdo&cid=bafkreiegbol2ajhpswnddn3jhoodirljhs7cugobxlg2yw7ptgbrcba3na
like what if gas town, but you actually make it pay painstaking attention to what the hell it is actually doing. you work maybe slower but each decision is properly motivated etc and is grounded in some kind of coherently tracked web of beliefs. idk, maybe this still isn't possible RE: