BLUE
JN
Johannes N
@johannes.nagl.name
73 followers160 following93 posts
Reposted by Johannes N
Bbsky.app

over 500k new users in the last two days 🤯

4.2k
Reposted by Johannes N
KHkelseyhightower.com

A large portion of Tech Twitter seems to have moved on. Nice seeing y'all active over here.

18
Reposted by Johannes N
PFpfrazee.com

Bom Dia! All signs are pointing toward today’s traffic breaking all the records that we broke yesterday. Likely before I eat breakfast. Will the Bluesky servers survive? Let’s find out together!

227
Reposted by Johannes N
KSmackuba.eu

Ok language stats are completely insane at the moment :D 24h: Portuguese 73.7% !! (3.25M posts) English 16.5% Japanese 5.5% German 1.6% #BlueskyStats

217
Reposted by Johannes N
Jjay.bsky.team

Bluesky has been independent from the start, but it took six months of negotiation in 2021 to set it up that way, and from the outside during that period it looked like the project was going to remain vaporware forever. Very glad we are alive today — it very easily could have turned out otherwise.

17
Reposted by Johannes N
PFpfrazee.com

From today's Pragmatic Engineer, one bit of Bluesky history that I love and wish more people knew -- @jay.bsky.teamnewsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/bluesky-en...

Jay used her own money to hire Daniel Holmgren and start prototyping while the details were being finalized. Together, they fleshed out a protocol Jay had coauthored with technical advisor whyrusleeping back in 2018 – a core design that persists in Bluesky to this day.

The project got the green light on 31 December 2021, when Twitter paid the newly formed entity a substantial sum of $13M to build the AT Protocol, and also the sign off for Bluesky to work fully independently. Actually, there was one condition from Twitter:

“Twitter's funding of Bluesky is not subject to any conditions except one: that Bluesky is to research and develop technologies that enable open and decentralized public conversation.”

It’s common for companies raising funding from investors to pursue a bold vision, but it’s extremely rare for a publicly traded company like Twitter to fund a startup and hand it a pretty much free rein. This was likely due to Jack's personal interest in the project, but also stems f
35
Reposted by Johannes N
Bbsky.app

In case you missed it last week, we published a roadmap of upcoming features! • DMs • Video • Improved custom feeds • Improved anti-harassment features • OAuth Read more in our 2024 product roadmap here:

Product Roadmap - Bluesky
Product Roadmap - Bluesky

What’s coming next? Over the next few months, we’ll be introducing some long-requested features.

159
JN
Johannes N
@johannes.nagl.name
73 followers160 following93 posts