Juan

About 18 months after, BlueSky clearly offers the superior user experience but that’s done nothing to attract and retain audiences.

1. Bluesky doesn’t downrank links
2. You can choose your own algorithm from among thousands
3. The whole app is open source

This keeps it a free and open platform by design, leading to better click-throughs and traffic to your site.

We 💙 the open web.

Good morning, little floof! 🐈‍⬛

WordPress is entering its 'end-stage founder' period I exit Founders for a living. It takes a special personality to bring something into existence: grit, passion, vision. But most Founders lack the self-awareness to embrace the limitations to scale the...

I exit founders for a living.

It takes a special personality to bring something into existence: grit, passion, vision. But most Founders lack the self-awareness to embrace the limitations to scale their creations. That's where people like me enter.

juan.co/blog/wordpre...

It's a really bad time to be a middle manager — Business Insider Over the past two years, American businesses have been engaged in a rapid-fire restructuring of their corporate hierarchies.

An interesting consequence of the rise of artificial intelligence is that the rule of thumb that you can only manage 3-7 direct reports is out the window. With AI and automation, you can have dozens of directs evidently. apple.news/AUMQm5cG8RyS...

The reversal of Chevron also poses a grave undoing of the American Republic as we know it. Far from the elimination of the “administrative state,” Chevron has enabled the executive to actually govern when the legislative branch has been paralyzed by money and interests for decades. End-stage.

I was at the very tail end of the Manila envelopes in the early 2000s. It’s bizarre because we used email and IM services but this legend maddeningly persisted due to the insistence on wet signatures and live documents. What a time!

If you look at Twitter’s financials, they have never been profitable and were losing $3M a day (over $1B a year!). Trump provided them with a badly needed temporary boost in 2015 and through his presidency, but the company was in the verge of bankruptcy before and many times since.

This is genuinely terrifying. I know the network effect accounts for the primary reason why the incumbents like Twitter and Facebook cannot really be dislodged by “better” alternatives, but outrages like these should be real wake up calls to anyone who values a rules-based world order.

I’m really stunned that anyone is listening to Nate Silver, or that he even has a job. He’s missed every prediction, flubbed every major forecast, and single-handedly ushered in the demise of his entire profession over the repeated polling misses. Game over, dude. You’re done.

I agree with this framing, for sure. But let's not delude ourselves:

Our education system is in shambles and was dismantled as far back as the 1960s; restoring Civics as mandatory in grade school is the first step to rebuild it, and then reinforce and redesign our institutions to match our values.

digital rendering of a glass heart filled wi' blue butterflies and more blue butterflies surrounding it. (original glass heart credit: digmo design? - source: deviantart) - posted by @sadknob.bsky.social

Happy Valentine’s Day!

Love comes in many forms, and romantic love is only one. I do this work because I love the internet, the infinite creativity of people, and believe we can build a better social web.

The Check-In 'Time is money, friend,' so goes the Goblin greeting in the popular online game World of Warcraft. Yet too many leaders in business waste valuable time and money on pointless meetings with their direc...

"Time is money, friend!" greet the Goblins in @warcraft.bsky.social. Yet, too many leaders in business waste valuable time and money holding pointless meetings with their reports. Check-Ins can be rebooted to help team members be successful by doing these three things: juan.co/the-check-in/

Absolutely stellar. Great summary of the current state of the micro-blogging wars!

Given the recent ruckus over the Mastodon<>Bsky bridge project, here's an update of my take on the personas of the social networks

Definitely a case of less actually being more. Gross.

Coffee with olive oil

Good morning to the horrors that await us

Really happy to hear that BlueSky has opened to the public, but I'm not going to lie: generally worried that this platform missed the boat with a private invite-only beta that lasted too long and not enough uniqueness or differentiation to standout from Twitter/X and, sadly, Meta Threads. Let's see!

No. The design philosophy breaks defederating in the sense that all content is linked to the individual user, so if a server defederates, the user can just take all of their posts, connections, likes, lists, etc., to another server. Or their own. Breaks the stranglehold of large servers IMO.

Best summary of the absurdist “doomer” skeptic hysteria that I have seen yet. Well done! 👍🏼

We must not fear progress, but embrace it. For it is our destiny.

Great read and reporting from @reuters.bsky.social. Personally, I think that the skeptics and so-called "doomers" are sensationalizing the possible threat that "super-intelligent" artificial intelligence poses to humanity. Now, we're likely to see "Q*" emerge sooner, not later, due to failed coup.

Yeah, by "views" I necessarily meant the "people" who hold them. But you are right: when conversations happen, and when people have the tools to self-moderate their feeds, then you get willing participants in discussions rather than involuntary shouting matches. Definitely better than Twitter/X.

What exactly is happening? Twitter/X is problematic purely because of its advertising / algorithm climate combined with the lack of moderation controls. Bluesky doesn't have those problems. But if you're saying it's turning into Twitter/X because there are more views... welcome to the human race!

If you do not want the compulsory Microsoft Windows 10 or Windows 11 deployment of Copilot AI, this handy "nopilot" registry file adds two line items that remove taskbar integration and disables copilot on Windows altogether. H/T @poison-sumac.bsky.social

What about dessert? Coffee? Flan!? 🍮

Take it as a compliment that the bottle of Tylenol has deemed you younger than you give yourself credit!

It's V'ger, George! It's come back from the future to re-order humanity, beginning with OpenAI!

I've definitely noticed a dramatic departure of a large number of brands and sizable advertisers in recent days. While many efforts - like Meta's Threads, and even BlueSky's early rollouts - can't destroy the network effect, it does seem like Twitter/X is undoing itself. Incredibly sad.

I just discovered this myself. I found myself really appreciating Twitter Spaces, and feel like BlueSky deserves a realtime Clubhouse-clone of its own to drive an audio / podcast social ecosystem. Is anyone else working on something like this?

Great to see you on this platform, Bear! Are you using an app to multi-post across platforms? Or are you manually posting updates like these?