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

A lot of commenters here are having their minds blown by this. And while I also love this I get the sense that many others here are maybe too young to remember that this kind of open access to data used to exist for lots websites. It inspired companion sites and loads of creativity. I find it tragic really, what the internet has become. I hope federated, and even more-so p2p, protocols take significant foothold on the internet and help revive this spirit of the web. The corpo-web is so fucking boring.

BS is a cynical data-grab and will lock down and back-stab its users as soon as it can do so and be competitive.