iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

I’ve been preparing for this talk for a long time. Now that it’s done, two songs keep running through my head: Kendrick: “sometimes you gotta pop out and show [people]” — I love the stage, and it’s been five years since my last new material. Pleased it went well.

@bwood.me I just woke up in Sydney and I’m procrastinating so I’ll add a low-hanging design crit notes: A) Logo cropping on the top on my standard latest iPhone B) P in app password form could be lowercase to match cases C) Add the same spacing between the note and the button that use use between

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Working with @acemarke.dev was a highlight of my career and becoming his friend was a highlight of my life ❤️

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Just got off stage sharing my latest talk! www.arbiter.space/futureofsoci... @pfrazee.com , this is the one I mentioned before, where I keep saying "and bsky is already doing this"

arbiter.space

Arbiter

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Really excited about this. Scooping up links is one of my main use cases for social media

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jonbell @jonbell.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed it!

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@johnallsopp.bsky.social Hello, can you add me to the starter pack?

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jonbell @jonbell.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

I wonder where I should eat dinner in Sydney near Ultimo

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Harrison 💥 @riehle.co · 28/11/2024

blueskywordcloud.com is here! Took me about 5 hours (with some distractions) and it was mainly just a fun little app to build. I outlined pretty much every step of how I made it no code👇 Thanks to those of you who followed along!

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jonbell @jonbell.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Hello from my first time in Sydney! I’m attending @webdirections.bsky.social and will soon be in a workshop with long time internet hero Josh Clark. Then tomorrow I do my talk in this unique looking Gehry building: Also this açai place is playing How Soon Is Now which I find fitting.

Spent the morning setting up a Bluesky labeller. Couldn’t get it working but I got pretty far. #failinpublic

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I find it disappointing but entirely expected that on Mastodon everyone is cheerleading their thing, on Threads, they’re cheerleading their thing, and Threads is cheerleading their thing. Fediverse or Atproto, I’m just excited that decentralised is exploding in popularity.

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Give been thinking about social media a lot, again. When I worked at Twitter, our data showed it took years for someone to become a consistent user. It was too hard to find people to follow, some people post too much, others post too little, it was hard to keep up. And posting is scary and lonely.

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I am rooting for decentralized, I am rooting against X, and I love Bluesky. I put together some stats to compare how things are going across apps, protocols, and centralized vs decentralized. Some disclaimers: * Solid numbers are hard to come by * It's likely I messed up some numbers * I love bsky

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@mcfunley.com Really enjoyed your presentation, thank you for sharing!

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@jedmund.com I just remembered reaching out to you about making loading states on Twitter use the dominant color when an image is loading, instead of full gray. We ended up shipping that! Took like a year. Thanks for the quick email response about it, I think I asked because Pinterest did it.

I recently started collecting ships that come into Wellington like they’re Pokémon + messages in a bottle. I even draw little pixel art versions of each one so I can see them go all over the world on a map. My wife says she’s going to buy me a T-shirt that says OLD MAN HOBBIES

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@kristy.bsky.social Hello! Saw your name pop up as a recommended account. Thank you for saying nice things about my writing in the past! 💙

Erlend Sogge Heggen @erlend.sh · 24/11/2024

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Mere hours after Christine’s epic deep dive.. bsky.app/profile/dust... ..my Weird project partner @zicklag.katharos.group put out the first post in an ongoing series about #leafprotocol 🍂 blog.muni.town/leaf-atproto... Think of it like a Small World companion layer to the Big World #atproto.

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Leaf, ATProto and ActivityPub

How does Leaf compare to AtProto and ActivityPub?

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In a few days, I’ll be speaking at @webdirections.bsky.social in Sydney about a topic near and dear to my heart. I don’t believe in blind optimism. I’m too pragmatic and realistic for that. So this talk is jam-packed with tangible examples of things (some already shipping) that will be a big deal.