There’s not lots occurring this week, so I’ll simply share that I’m actually having fun with Bluesky with its latest surge in recognition.
I don’t assume there’ll ever be one other “centralised” social media neighborhood for Swift and Apple platform builders. Some individuals stay blissful on Twitter/X, some moved to Mastodon and located a house there, and most not too long ago 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 not too long ago, although.
There are sufficient attention-grabbing accounts to observe which can be exterior of the tech neighborhood that my timeline is properly diversified, which by no means occurred for me on Mastodon. I additionally love a number of 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 typically. Submit labelling can also be actually attention-grabbing. In brief, I like what they’re doing. Nevertheless it’s greater than that, I’m having fun with being there, for now at the very least. It’s enjoyable.
This episode of Decoder with the CEO, Jay Graber is price a hear 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 a number of 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’ll find me at @daveverwer.com and the e-newsletter at @iosdevweekly.com. I haven’t arrange absolutely automated posting of the objects in every e-newsletter, but, however I’ll.
Subsequent week I’ll have one other long-form situation for you if all goes to plan. It’s one thing a bit totally different from the final one. Pleased Friday, and benefit from the situation!
Dave Verwer 
