Sill

Had a small network hiccup with Sill. Should be back up and running. Backfilling all accounts now (though only missing ~20 min of data, shouldn't take long)

Cutting Through the Noise with Sill Social A calm, focused look at Sill Social – a discovery tool that highlights the most-shared links from your Mastodon and Bluesky feeds. A daily email and more, it’s a refreshing way to cut through digital ...

Hey thanks for writing about @sill.social, @nevillehobson.xyz! www.nevillehobson.io/cutting-thro...

You mention wanting support for other federated networks. What else are you using that you would want to see in Sill?

Quick demo on the use case for more link data in @sill.social. Browse by publication, author, and topic, and see all the links in the history of your network, plus what your network said.

This is only working locally right now, still need to figure out production scale. Probably some DuckDB.

The Sill filters UI, which offers: - a search bar - a minimum shares input - a sort by select input - a time range input - a reposts filter - a service select input - a list select input

Working on a rework of filters in @sill.social. Changes:

1. New "minimum shares" filter. Really useful in conjunction with sorting by new.
2. Grid layout to make more efficient use of space.
3. Filter state is saved to local storage, so when you return, Sill remembers your filter state.

Sill Sill streamlines your Bluesky and Mastodon feeds to give you a clear picture of what's happening.

Want your own custom notification feed? Head to sill.social/notifications to get started. You can set up all kinds of filters: all links from specific domains, keyword matching, share thresholds, and more. Available via email or RSS.

And a secret weapon: Sill—although its usefulness is a function of how many smart people one follows on Bluesky. Here's a snapshot of your Square columnist's Sill alerts yesterday morning. The screenshot shows over a dozen emails from Sill in a 4-hour period, all links about Chicago.

@charliemeyerson.com talked about how he gets his news for @chicagopublicsquare.com.

I'm pretty confident Charlie is @sill.social's #1 user. He has a custom notification feed that sends him an email anytime someone he follows posts a link about Chicago.

www.chicagopublicsquare.com/2025/05/all-...

Preview of a compact layout in Sill with images, descriptions, and toolbars removed.

Playing around with an (optional) even denser compact layout in @sill.social. Thoughts?

A screenshot of a Sill notification group for a notification called "Basketball links". It is delivered via RSS and has two filters, one on the list name, which should equal "Basketball", and the number of shares, which is greater than or equal to two.

Added a quick new feature to @sill.social today. You can now set up custom notifications based on lists/feeds. So, for example, I now have an RSS feed that updates whenever 2+ people share the same link in my basketball list.

Notifications are a powerful way to make social media work on your time.

How Sill uses Graze to sponsor the news feed and grow its user base We're taking an old business model and updating it for the next generation of social - read more about how Sill used it to convert new users

Today on the blog: How @sill.social was able to generate new signups by running sponsored content on @aendra.com's news feed, and how our twist on an old business model will help build a better social web for the next generation

Enjoy!

@aendra.com's Ad Enabled Feeds | Graze Browse all of the feeds from @aendra.com that you can run advertisements on.

It is an ad, supporting the maintainer of this feed. Read more here, including how to hide ads from your feed. www.graze.social/ads/user/78

@aendra.com's Ad Enabled Feeds | Graze Browse all of the feeds from @aendra.com that you can run advertisements on.

See here from the maintainer of this feed, on how ads work (and how you can hide them!) www.graze.social/ads/user/78

Sill Sill streamlines your Bluesky and Mastodon feeds to give you a clear picture of what's happening.

Are you doomscrolling? Try sill.social to get the news from the people you trust on your time.

Sill connects to Bluesky and collects the most popular links from your follows and your feeds. Check in daily to get the news at a glance.

Available via web, email and RSS. #promoted

Beyond Bluesky: These are the apps building social experiences on the AT Protocol | TechCrunch A year ago, Bluesky was opening up to the public and was known as one of the many X competitors that emerged after Elon Musk acquired the network formerly

Beyond Bluesky: These are the apps building social experiences on the AT Protocol techcrunch.com/2025/...

Sill Sill streamlines your Bluesky and Mastodon feeds to give you a clear picture of what's happening.

Want to go back in time? If you get @sill.social's Daily Digest, head to sill.social/digest/archive to view past editions!

A screenshot of a Sill link card with a box drawn around the bookmark button and an arrow pointing to it.

@sill.social now has bookmarks! In your links feed, every link has a bookmark button in the toolbar. Click it to add the link to your bookmarks. You can find all of your bookmarks at sill.social/bookmarks, or by using the nav.

Sill will continue to track shares to bookmarked links beyond 24 hours.

Introducing bookmarks | Sill Now you can save important links from your network to access later. Also, you can now access your daily digest archives.

New sill.social feature! Introducing bookmarks, a new way for you to save links for later! docs.sill.social/blog/introdu...

I also added archives for your Daily Digest, so you can go back in time and see what was most popular on a previous day. sill.social/digest/archive.

the only thing that is allowing me to keep up with the news is @sill.social. I can't recommend it enough.

Assuming Northsky supports Atproto's OAuth spec, @sill.social should work with Northsky accounts when it opens. If anyone is on Northsky and wants to try out Sill, let me know if it works. Eager to support this project.

Sill Sill streamlines your Bluesky and Mastodon feeds to give you a clear picture of what's happening.

Are you new to Bluesky and looking for a way to streamline your news consumption? Try sill.social! It collects the links people you follow post and sorts them by popularity. Less doomscrolling, more reading. Available via web, email, or RSS.

A chart titled "Top Domains" showing the top 10 domains posted to my Bluesky timeline in the past week. In order: - nytimes.com - washingtonpost.com - youtube.com - npr.org - prospect.org - wsj.com - wired.com - propublica.org - theguardian.com - nbcnews.com

Working on some new Sill features. I've been super interested in a more analytical view of your network. What would help you better understand the news diet you're getting from social media?

(I don't even follow that many NYT/WaPo journalists... y'all gotta post some other sources)

Bringing Quote Posts to Mastodon Sharing our thinking and progress on bringing Quote Posts to Mastodon, with a goal to create a safe and respectful space for everyone.

If and when Mastodon implements quote posts, Sill will support them as first-class objects the same way it does for Bluesky. blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/02/brin...

Sill Sill streamlines your Bluesky and Mastodon feeds to give you a clear picture of what's happening.

Since migrating sill.social to a new host last week, I've had the most stable week of operating Sill in its history. I suspect the hard drive on the previous server was slowly failing for a long time.

Anyway, now's a great time to sign up for Sill!

Weekday crew! Sill is back!

Sill is back! | Sill Learn how to get your Sill account running again

I've written a blog post explaining the situation that I will send to former users shortly: docs.sill.social/blog/sill-is...

Sill Sill streamlines your Bluesky and Mastodon feeds to give you a clear picture of what's happening.

sill.social is back! Unfortunately, I could not save the database. That means you'll need to recreate your account in order to use Sill. I'm really sorry for the downtime and inconvenience.

Posting this to hold myself accountable.

Sill will relaunch tomorrow morning, with or without recovered data.

I have a process that removes corrupted data from my backup, but it is quite slow. I'm going to let it run overnight and see what happens. If it's not done or close, I launch anyway.

Basically where I'm at is to either:

- Attempt to recover my offsite backup (which is a little old) and recover most user accounts
- Just launch Sill on the new server I've provisioned (with a new provider), make everyone sign up again.

Obviously option 1 is preferable!

The production failure was hardware failure at Latitude. Nothing I can do about it. That's why we backup offsite. But I made a mistake: I exported a pg_dump file through `docker exec -it`, which corrupts the binary format. But I can see the data, I just have to get it in a workable format. Ideas?