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

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590 points consumer451 | 1 comments | 16 Nov 24 22:07 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | 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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mariusor ◴[17 Nov 24 07:36 UTC] No.42162600[source]▶
I might have asked this before, but did you look at adding this type of ingestion for ActivityPub?
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marginalia_nu ◴[17 Nov 24 12:47 UTC] No.42163928[source]▶
Briefly, but I've come to learn there's a contingent of aggressively search-engine hostile people that has made a home on the fediverse. The federated nature of it makes it somewhat tricky to untangle the search engine friendly people from the hostile.

I don't need the inevitable DDOS:es and death threats you get when upsetting a clique of mentally ill people online.

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mariusor ◴[17 Nov 24 14:08 UTC] No.42164243[source]▶
You're right, I forgot about the backlash that this type of efforts got from people that don't understand the technology and just make assumptions about element visibility in the network, though maybe calling them mentally ill is a bit much.
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1. marginalia_nu ◴[17 Nov 24 14:19 UTC] No.42164297[source]▶
The sorts threatening physical violence almost certainly are. But it's a minority to be sure.