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venki @venki.dev · 14/09/2025

unfortunate how dunked-upon this post is, and that Noah & Nate Silver critiquing Bluesky in this manner are reasonably accurate. Bluesky seemed like a really awesome experiment in open social media ecosystems, but ultimately has ended up primarily being a lefty Gab/Truth Social?

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venki @venki.dev · 06/06/2025

i'd really really love to see this for bsky someday the open ecosystem really makes this feel like it'd make more sense

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venki @venki.dev · 21/05/2025

good social media platform sora.chatgpt.com/explore/top

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venki @venki.dev · 20/05/2025

building a small free product that lets you know when ChatGPT scrapes your website to use in a conversation. if you have a website & would want to beta test it, lmk

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venki @venki.dev · 09/01/2025

everything is $/MTok if you squint at it

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venki @venki.dev · 29/12/2024

that's right im a freelance, unpaid, documentation writer now

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venki @venki.dev · 25/12/2024

merry christmas beskies

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venki @venki.dev · 21/12/2024

Surprised that this is getting dunked on, I thought Bluesky leaned further left.

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venki @venki.dev · 08/12/2024

good post, incisive as usual from eury!

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venki @venki.dev · 05/12/2024

pretty wild we have only half as many cows as 100 years ago because they each produce 6x as much milk!

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venki @venki.dev · 04/12/2024

Great piece! Compelling framing of the beliefs of {tech, DC, voters} generally shifting in ways that just made tech & democrats less aligned

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venki @venki.dev · 29/11/2024

I generally wish the guidelines you could be banned for were more minimal. Eg: only for illegal things that you’re legally forced to ban.

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‏ deepfates @deepfates.com.deepfates.com.deepfates.com.deepfates.com.deepfates.com · 27/11/2024

I heard people wanted a million Bluesky posts? So I made an open-source script that allows anyone to scrape the Bluesky firehose and collect everything people post. This will be a useful resource to anyone who wants to archive this data or train generative AI. Have fun! github.com/deepfates/bs...

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GitHub - deepfates/bsky-scraper

Contribute to deepfates/bsky-scraper development by creating an account on GitHub.

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venki @venki.dev · 27/11/2024

Feature request: bot/automated account badges like on Twitter I’ve tried to use: a) disclaimers in bio, b) distinctive handles, but my bots are still occasionally mistaken for real people. A self-identified automated account badge would really help!

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venki @venki.dev · 20/11/2024

thinking about tech internships/apprenticeships. - very high value to be hired as a intern/apprentice/junior - meh value to hire an intern/apprentice/junior (because: they're net-negative at the start + fast turnover is the norm) how do you reconcile to preserve this positive externality?

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venki @venki.dev · 16/11/2024

pretty cool. i do wonder how soon will people figure out monetizing aspects of Bluesky. can you make a (feedgen, labeler, benevolent bot) and monetize it?

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venki @venki.dev · 15/11/2024

Moonbounce looks pretty cool you can hang out with friends on webpages (that you whitelist), and chat / join friends on what they're looking at etc www.getmoonbounce.com

getmoonbounce.com

Moonbounce

A browser extension designed to make the internet more fun. Hang with friends, collect loot, and customize your own digital spaces. Anywhere online.

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venki @venki.dev · 13/11/2024

can someone explain the starter pack engagement farming thing to me again or point me to a thread? @vivalapanda.moe tried but i didnt get it / what's going on here

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venki @venki.dev · 13/11/2024

i just sent documents to the IRS via a web form for the first time, instead of fax/mail we're so back.

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venki @venki.dev · 13/11/2024

hmm, MAUs: - bsky: 7.5m (from bskycharts) - mastodon: 800k (from fedidb) - threads: 275m (official source) - twitter: 330m (varies 300m-500m from diff sources?)

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venki @venki.dev · 12/11/2024

request for feed: all posts with manifold links

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venki @venki.dev · 12/11/2024

low grade bsky anxiety about having 16 accounts on a PDS hosted on Oracle cloud free tier hmm todo: figure out off-platform backups before they axe me

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venki @venki.dev · 12/11/2024

great post: the negative impacts are larger than i would have anticipated. i guess we're better at monetizing addictiveness than i thought?

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venki @venki.dev · 10/11/2024

I feel like there's something here but I do feel like this idea is vague & incomplete. It was in my drafts for a long time though, so I decided to finally publish it. Can you tell me what it's missing?

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venki @venki.dev · 08/11/2024

really good post thanks scott 🐀👑

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venki @venki.dev · 03/11/2024

thinking about: “personal website as a tool for self-actualization or identity development”

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venki @venki.dev · 02/11/2024

okay im officially unemployed, in my chillaxing era, come hang out

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vik / λh.(h h) @vikhyat.net · 31/10/2024

i have come to bluesky to spread the word about a sub-2B param vision language model

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venki @venki.dev · 31/10/2024

pcp claims that vitamin d is fake and new meta analyses show that: - testing it isn’t worth it unless you have ckd or gastric bypass or such - supplementing it usually doesn’t do much - low vitamin d levels are usually a trailing indicator of chronic disease is this true? @elicit.com

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venki @venki.dev · 30/10/2024

trying to be a 2x2 guy but somehow i always end up drawing a pareto frontier

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venki @venki.dev · 29/10/2024

like how the Apple Watch can kinda diagnose you with cardio arrhythmia they should make screen time diagnose you with ADD

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venki @venki.dev · 29/10/2024

just set up @blogsky.venki.dev - it mirrors various substack/rss feeds to bluesky, to make it easier to read/share them in one place! lmk if there’s any feeds you’d like to see me add

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venki @venki.dev · 28/10/2024

using your own abstractions is so cool thanks past venki for grokking the complexities & papering over them so i don't need to hold them in my head rn :)

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venki @venki.dev · 28/10/2024

this is about scott

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venki @venki.dev · 27/10/2024

reading Diaspora - it’s a really good scifi book so far and thinking about how good books are _very_ stimulating in some way. brings me back to this old sympopp post

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Hyperstimuli are Understimulating

Pleasure is satisfying, and satisfaction makes you stop.

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venki @venki.dev · 26/10/2024

www.community-archive.org + bsky allowing you to make backdated posts could allow for a pretty good bit Which is an option to retroactively mirror all twitter posts in the archive: including interactions between people if they’re both in the archive

community-archive.org

Community Archive

A public archive of everyone's tweets

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venki @venki.dev · 26/10/2024

its kinda crazy that if i had to set up a static page at a new domain rn i could do it in ~10 minutes using a create-t3-app Next.js app + Vercel or Fly + Cloudflare registrar. but i don't really know how i'd do it with static HTML + js. esp since i kinda prefer tailwind & react syntax

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venki @venki.dev · 26/10/2024

what's the best bring-your-own API key UX for a chatbot? reqs: - can render copiable markdown output - persistent chats - claude-3.5-sonnet the goal is to not be bounded by daily rate limits.

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venki @venki.dev · 26/10/2024

it was surprisingly very easy to set up a PDS? like took <5 minutes and just worked? nice work bsky team

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venki @venki.dev · 25/10/2024

one problem i anticipate with bsky feedgen: you really want impression data for a good feed algo! {engagements} is straightforwardly worse for ranking than {engagements/impressions} and i doubt you could fit it in the firehose

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venki @venki.dev · 25/10/2024

related why do we pass like 1000 new bills a year in CA that’s too much law we have enough law already make it stop

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venki @venki.dev · 24/10/2024

i feel incentivized to post on bsky because i can post links but disincentivized because there's still nobody here 🤔

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venki @venki.dev · 22/10/2024

you gotta open a nursery to store your children? python async is so uwu

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