Brian Frank

Drawing of Benjamin Frankling wearing a coonskin cap.

Franklin being received by the French court in 1778. The French are in powdered wigs.

FWIW, it's perhaps worth noting that when Benjamin Franklin visited France between 1776 and 1778 to ask for military support for the then-new-formed United States of America, he wore a coonskin cap. "Proper" French court attire at this time was a powdered wig.

It’s pretty amazing that these guys are going with “Covid, which wasn’t a big deal, is the worlds greatest bio weapon, that we shouldn’t have cancelled school for a semester for, but also China did almost destroy the world, but don’t forget it’s also just the flu”

This is what happens when you ask me to help sanewash the Trump tariffs.

this is one of my favorite custom feeds, Quiet Posters

it shows you posts from people you follow who don't post that much! so it surfaces friends' posts that might otherwise get drowned out in the Following feed (which is reverse chronological) 🤗

Bluesky is an open network. This means we can eventually sort ourselves onto two apps, one that calls them posts and one that calls them skeets. All without losing our friends or followers.

And potentially cascading effects... I didn’t directly care about the feature change as much as I noticed Twitter seemed to get even less interesting/useful with more people leaving. Bluesky and Threads are getting even better with those people joining.

Exploding wild pig population on Canadian prairie threatens to invade northern U.S. states

Wouldn’t want to cross paths with an exploding wild pig.

People will say Killers of the Flower Moon is too long to sit through and then watch the Panthers play the Texans.

Ironically, in the What's Hot feed.

Facebook's Threads is so depressing Like a $19 turkey sandwich at an airport

Instagram lends itself to “positive” vibes, which feel shallower when the focus is on what people say. https://jogblog.substack.com/p/facebooks-threads-is-so-depressing

threads is where we will complain to Brands. thats it

When I see real estate listings now I just want to know what all the trees in the yard are.

Blogged about watching Twitter die and Bluesky come alive. I think it might also help explain why being on here can feel so good. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/05/social-media-status-twitter-blue-checks-bluesky/673987/

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Alt Clients (Part I): Web

We recently discussed Alternative Clients for Bluesky and how they offer users a new experience from the default Bluesky app. (See attached post)

In this thread, we'll be showcasing some amazing Alt Clients for Web that you should know and check out!Let's dive in🧵⬇️
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Oh now we're talking.

One of the biggest innovations in bsky is, for user accounts, separating identity and discovery. I.e. you can have an identity of, say, h.olysh.it without hosting a server on olysh.it.

This is something a lot of systems get wrong.

“Chess” with a preschooler: underrated! Way more tolerable with my spirited guy than, say, Snakes & Ladders.

Lots of pieces to move lots of places. “This bishop wants to be friends with your rook…” We managed to take turns at least.

there are a tremendous number of near-intractable problems for social networks at scale. but before that, very few of them even have the luck + right combination of early adopters to get to scale. I’m intrigued that this seems to have captured that momentum for now! but lol decentralization at scale

I don’t necessarily dislike this idea.

How to set your domain as your handle Using a domain as your handle helps with account identity, verification, and portability. Here's how to set your domain as your handle.

time to dust off that domain you've been hoarding for years and set it as your handle. easy tutorial up on our blog now!

https://blueskyweb.xyz/blog/4-28-2023-domain-handle-tutorial

It's been six months since Elon took over Twitter. I started writing this post about the Twitter diaspora to other services last week, but had to update the Bluesky section last night... https://www.techdirt.com/2023/04/28/six-months-in-thoughts-on-the-current-post-twitter-diaspora-options/

It's posts. I promise. They're just called posts. This is a post.

Oh I’m torn… My rational side is like, things you post should just be called “posts.” But weird names can be irrationally good — sense of community, etc.

Went viral on Bluesky (got 100 likes)

Composable Moderation A customizable, composable approach to moderation that prioritizes safety and gives users and developers more control.

and this is an open ecosystem where we are not the only ones building moderation & safety tooling over the long term! it’s bottle-necked on us at the start as we finish protocol interfaces, but our goal is to make community moderation viable at scale

https://blueskyweb.xyz/blog/4-13-2023-moderation

Addy is 100% right here.

What you'll find is that even when you write about things you "know", you'll learn more about them.