The bsky firehose is really fun and feels like a misty-eyed throwback to 2005.
I used it last weekend to throw together this very silly little thing: https://bigmood.blue/
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I used it last weekend to throw together this very silly little thing: https://bigmood.blue/
I wonder if instead of black+repeating images (assumption here is that's the display and not an artifact of the firehose, the same unique image often repeats a lot in the same short instance) it'd be cleaner to have some sort of exponential backoff queue (the closer it is to empty the slower it empties like 0.5s/numInQueue, last element in queue will wait no less than 0.5s but also wait for the next element to queue). This would make the flow a bit more consistent, never blank, and never repeating.
Also if images kept their aspect ratio.