The Pentel Graphgear 1000 is great. I love how it retracts.

Paul Frazee, a member of the Bluesky team, often has to explain to non-technical people how to verify their account. This involves changing settings with their domain registrar.

If your business owns a domain, you can set your handle to that domain. This blog post explains how to do so.

If you change your handle, users who follow you will still follow you. If you migrate to a different PDS, your followers will still follow you.

The .bsky.social you often see at the end of Bluesky usernames is not like the @mastodon.social you often see at the end of Mastodon usernames.

On Bluesky, usernames have to be a domain. If you own your own domain, you can set your username to that domain, but if you don’t, you’ll usually be assigned one that ends in .bsky.social. In the following example, the New York Times sets their username to @nytimes.com, because they own nytimes.com.

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Their data is still hosted on one of Bluesky’s PDSs, however.

A PDS is just a server that personal data, a Personal Data Server. Currently, the process of moving ones data off of Bluesky’s PDS and onto another is cumbersome, and the only users who have done so are technically inclined and self-hosting their own PDS. There are only about a thousand of them (according to the graph below), but hopefully there will be more once the process is streamlined.

Bluesky is actually pretty good, but the biggest issue currently is that there’s too much power centralized in the hands of Bluesky PBLLC. The less we have to rely on Bluesky PBLLC while still having full functionality, the better.

Also, Northsky is planning on launching it’s own AppView, meaning posts that would normally be hidden on Bluesky could still be available from Northsky’s client.

Reminder: there is no such thing as a “Bluesky instance.” The way ATProto works is nothing like the way ActivityPub works.

There is on-going work to lower the cost of operating a Relay. The information about the proposals is pretty technical, so I’m not going to post about it here until they have an official announcement.

Posts about ATProto pop up every week in this community because it’s my community, and I share news about it. I’m sure the subreddit is more active, but I don’t like Reddit, so I’m here.

Bluesky doesn’t need fediverse compatibility for PR. Most people on Bluesky don’t know what the fediverse is.

This hurts my head. Is each “subreddit” a custom feed?

For them to talk to each other, Lemmy would need to be adapted to work with BridgyFed (or the other way around).

brb opening and feature request for passkeys in Lemmy

edit: nevermind

You can store passkeys in your password manager lol

Ok so I don’t have to change browsers?

Flashes is an Instagram-style client for Bluesky.

I wish no one reminded me.

Private accounts are not technically possible at the moment because the protocol Bluesky is built on requires all interactions between users to be public (including blocks).

The developers have discussed it before, but it would not happen for a while.

TIL Mapillary is owned by Meta

Apple Music doesn’t pull this shit

Funnily enough, I actually thought those random downvotes came from lemmy.world users