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The Bluesky firehose viewed in the style of a Windows XP screensaver

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590 points consumer451 | 5 comments | 16 Nov 24 22:07 UTC | HN request time: 0.844s | source
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consumer451 ◴[16 Nov 24 22:07 UTC] No.42159787[source]▶
https://github.com/theosanderson/firehose

I just love that the open nature of Bsky is allowing people to hack things like this.

Now that their growth is crazy, let's hope that the work they did on the protocol and corp structure keeps it this way.

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marginalia_nu ◴[17 Nov 24 01:22 UTC] No.42161167[source]▶
Yeah I was looking into the firehose as a potential way to source to discover new domains for my search engine. Even though it didn't pan out, I really appreciate how accessible the data is.
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1. morkalork ◴[17 Nov 24 01:25 UTC] No.42161191[source]▶
Why didn't it work out?
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2. marginalia_nu ◴[17 Nov 24 01:34 UTC] No.42161236[source]▶
I decided agains it because it had an incredibly bad signal to noise ratio. Almost all links I saw were either to big websites like newspapers, patreon, onlyfans; or behind url shorteners.

Dunno, I may explore it further down the line, but for now the juice didn't seem worth the squeeze.

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4. dools ◴[17 Nov 24 03:28 UTC] No.42161770[source]▶
I created a website like 10 years ago called birdmine that indexed every link you or one of your followers shared on Twitter, in a Solr search engine so you could search stuff that had been curated to an extent. It was pretty cool, I think I’m the only person that ever used it though.
5. djbusby ◴[17 Nov 24 04:02 UTC] No.42161880[source]▶
BSky could use a better search, or a better curation of feeds. I'm certain there is more room in the discovery play.