There’s not lots occurring this week, so I’ll simply share that I’m actually having fun with Bluesky with its latest surge in reputation.
I don’t suppose there’ll ever be one other “centralised” social media neighborhood for Swift and Apple platform builders. Some folks stay blissful on Twitter/X, some moved to Mastodon and located a house there, and most lately Bluesky is getting an enormous inflow of individuals. We’re by no means going to all be in the identical place once more. That’s a disgrace, however life goes on.
I ended having fun with Twitter in 2020 and principally left the platform by 2021, effectively earlier than the acquisition. I gave Mastodon a go in 2023, however I by no means felt at dwelling there and I don’t use it anymore. I’ve been actually having fun with Bluesky lately, although.
There are sufficient attention-grabbing accounts to comply with which might be outdoors of the tech neighborhood that my timeline is properly various, which by no means occurred for me on Mastodon. I additionally love a number of the technical options, like with the ability to take away the default timeline and decide in to new ones, like one which options posts from folks you comply with who don’t publish typically. Publish labelling can be actually attention-grabbing. In brief, I like what they’re doing. Nevertheless it’s greater than that, I’m having fun with being there, for now at the very least. It’s enjoyable.
This episode of Decoder with the CEO, Jay Graber is value a pay attention for those who didn’t catch it. Sure, it’s a VC backed firm, which suggests they’ll want a return sooner or later. Jay went into a number of the methods it might generate income on the Decoder episode, and whereas I’m slightly skeptical of the plan, it’s value a strive.
Anyway, all of that is simply to say that for those who’re additionally making an attempt out Bluesky, you could find me at @daveverwer.com and the publication at @iosdevweekly.com. I haven’t arrange totally automated posting of the gadgets in every publication, but, however I’ll.
Subsequent week I’ll have one other long-form challenge for you if all goes to plan. It’s one thing slightly totally different from the final one. Completely happy Friday, and benefit from the challenge!
Dave Verwer 