There’s not rather a lot occurring this week, so I’ll simply share that I’m actually having fun with Bluesky with its current surge in reputation.
I don’t assume there’ll ever be one other “centralised” social media group for Swift and Apple platform builders. Some individuals stay joyful 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 largely left the platform by 2021, properly 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 fascinating accounts to observe which are exterior of the tech group that my timeline is properly different, which by no means occurred for me on Mastodon. I additionally love among the technical options, like having the ability to take away the default timeline and choose in to new ones, like one which options posts from individuals you observe who don’t submit usually. Submit labelling can also be actually fascinating. Briefly, I like what they’re doing. However it’s greater than that, I’m having fun with being there, for now a minimum of. It’s enjoyable.
This episode of Decoder with the CEO, Jay Graber is price a pay attention when you didn’t catch it. Sure, it’s a VC backed firm, which suggests they’ll want a return sooner or later. Jay went into among the methods it may generate profits on the Decoder episode, and whereas I’m a bit skeptical of the plan, it’s price a strive.
Anyway, all of that is simply to say that when you’re additionally attempting out Bluesky, you will discover me at @daveverwer.com and the e-newsletter at @iosdevweekly.com. I haven’t arrange totally automated posting of the gadgets in every e-newsletter, 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 a bit totally different from the final one. Blissful Friday, and benefit from the challenge!
Dave Verwer 