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adventure box and the power of seagull @untiltrees.bsky.social · 04/07/2023

oh she's in the bsky team, I'm probably wrong then

adventure box and the power of seagull @untiltrees.bsky.social · 04/07/2023

and I think aggregator thingies can't be federated? as in, yeah ppl can host their own, but each has to deal with 100% of the data

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adventure box and the power of seagull @untiltrees.bsky.social · 04/07/2023

in fact in my understanding this is incorrect. being able to host your own pod won't help much with scaling; pods were designed to consume low resources. afaiu the scaling bottleneck is the aggregator thingies bsky.app/profile/emily.bsky.team/po…

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adventure box and the power of seagull @untiltrees.bsky.social · 04/07/2023

you know how "not not a cat" is a cat? well that has nothing to do with it

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adventure box and the power of seagull @untiltrees.bsky.social · 04/07/2023

it doesn't fit the centralized mental model, or the p2p one, or the federated one, it's a lovely new combination of ideas as far as I can tell

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adventure box and the power of seagull @untiltrees.bsky.social · 04/07/2023

that said, the rest of the bluesky architecture is epic so it doesn't matter that much to me! I can choose timelines and custom moderation labels and all the good stuff! bluesky already gave us a shitton of freedom and control

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adventure box and the power of seagull @untiltrees.bsky.social · 04/07/2023

AFAIU, federation as planned only means federating ownership of my data. means I can host my data myself. but the rest of the bricks that make up bluesky (the aggregators, the timelines) is as before. so e.g. hosting ym own server doesn't really give me more control on what happens to my data

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adventure box and the power of seagull @untiltrees.bsky.social · 04/07/2023

if I understand the bluesky architecture correctly, ppl are gonna get angry when we get federation and it's not what they expected

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adventure box and the power of seagull @untiltrees.bsky.social · 04/07/2023

u get me tortle 🫂 hope so too! it's looking good so far, I like my neighborhood

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adventure box and the power of seagull @untiltrees.bsky.social · 03/07/2023

still, I remember the sounds and smells, I remember dancing on this bridge at midnight, walking through these woods during quarantine. I remember feeling like I had a home and I was welcome to be here

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adventure box and the power of seagull @untiltrees.bsky.social · 03/07/2023

that's why I left a year ago instead of finishing my thesis here as would be expected

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adventure box and the power of seagull @untiltrees.bsky.social · 03/07/2023

I do feel a bit too old. everyone around is in their 20s and has this vibe of not having responsibilities or plans in life

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adventure box and the power of seagull @untiltrees.bsky.social · 03/07/2023

it feels safe from the sheer familiarity. I know where to buy anything I'd need, I know where to chill and to party and to browse books

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adventure box and the power of seagull @untiltrees.bsky.social · 03/07/2023

so many memories after 6 years there. I feel like I grew up here, and in many ways I did

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adventure box and the power of seagull @untiltrees.bsky.social · 03/07/2023

(saying cancer season to be vague enough. it means today plus or minus a few weeks)

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adventure box and the power of seagull @untiltrees.bsky.social · 03/07/2023

I'm turning 30 this cancer season!! just as I'm finishing my phd. turning point big time

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adventure box and the power of seagull @untiltrees.bsky.social · 03/07/2023

I'm in a hostel and half of the room is cute girls god help me

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adventure box and the power of seagull @untiltrees.bsky.social · 03/07/2023

I'm gaining followers so much more quickly on here even though I don't post as much it's weird

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adventure box and the power of seagull @untiltrees.bsky.social · 03/07/2023

Well that's how we're forced to do it if we can't trust twitter DMs, but it sucks. There's very few ppl I want to give my real life details to, I want group chats without doxxing myself

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adventure box and the power of seagull @untiltrees.bsky.social · 02/07/2023

Less convenient if it's not integrated in the app, but better than what we currently have

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adventure box and the power of seagull @untiltrees.bsky.social · 02/07/2023

What's interesting about DMs is that I don't care that much for them to be in the same app, what I want most is for them to use the same identities as here. But bluesky makes this v easy! So someone would make a third-party DM provider right now!

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adventure box and the power of seagull @untiltrees.bsky.social · 02/07/2023

lol I got about 20min of twitter not thinking I'm a bot an I'm back to not being able to even like or DM

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adventure box and the power of seagull @untiltrees.bsky.social · 02/07/2023

Interesting, all three were hidden under a "show" button for me (on the android app). Maybe they took a moment to add the labels, is it working for you now?

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adventure box and the power of seagull @untiltrees.bsky.social · 02/07/2023

hmm I could be "oh adventurous seagull" that's kinda rad

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adventure box and the power of seagull @untiltrees.bsky.social · 02/07/2023

realname is enough to doxx myself, which would severely limit what I wanna talk about :/ but then again would allow me to talk about the cool math stuff I play with... been thinking about it

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adventure box and the power of seagull @untiltrees.bsky.social · 02/07/2023

on the internet no one knows you're a bunch of trees

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adventure box and the power of seagull @untiltrees.bsky.social · 02/07/2023

I'm hoping the universe someday reveals to me the deeper meaning behind my choice

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adventure box and the power of seagull @untiltrees.bsky.social · 02/07/2023

I was following someone called "withoutboats" and felt the preposition+noun combo sounded awesome so I just made one up

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adventure box and the power of seagull @untiltrees.bsky.social · 02/07/2023

idk why I'm called "box" anymore. it was a joke and stuck, but I don't quite identify with it. might fuck around and change name

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