Chris Messina

@chrismessina.me

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😬 Man of the internet; generalist.
🆕 Come for the app updates stay for the snark.
🫡 Twitter sober since April '23.

I swiped left, which is how I expect to uncover message management controls, as on WhatsApp, Instagram, and X.

Got my first Bluesky DM spam! But how do I delete it? It's in my inbox but I can't interact with it. Maybe @pfrazee.com knows... 🤔

Saw this when departing the Pittsburgh airport. Do you think they know about us? blueskypit.com #BlueskyAndYou

Plotting and scheming with [email protected]. 😈

Oh?

RIP Post.news post.news/@/noam/2fJw4...

Huh. New from Hans Zimmer — The Tron Anthem, "A SONG FOR THE WEB3 GENERATION". www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNRG...

Are you a @raycast.com user? You might like @ckris.bsky.social's new Almost Blue Sky theme. themes.ray.so?version=1&na...

Ok but also, Bluesky v 1.17.0 has some great improvements to hashtag support!

📢 App Version 1.76 is rolling out now (1/3) This release includes some bugfixes that have been bothering everybody. • iOS: We fixed the issue with the composer’s autocomplete inserting garbage into your posts. • Android: We fixed another issue that would cause the back button to stop working.

This is the first ad for Mastodon I've seen in the wild — on @techmeme.com. Baby's growing up! 🐘 When will Bluesky run ads?

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Bossett

Some number of Mastodon instances plan or are blocking Threads, but Threads also reserves the right to not federate with everyone. Here's its current policy: help.instagram.com/914046486923...

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Chris Messina

352-65 in favor of TikTok divestiture. Biden's right: "When we stand together, we can tackle any challenge". 🫠 www.nytimes.com/2024/03/13/t...

Google Slides got GIFs and Stickers before Bluesky. WTH.

X drops the "Trust" from their "Trust & Safety" team. Now it's just "Safety", which is a two point score in football when the offensive team is tackled, loses possession of the ball, or commits a foul in their own end zone. 🏈 x.com/safety/statu... ##DeadTwitter

Spotted this in a recent Superhuman webinar. Internally, they've added inline integrations to Airtable and Linear to the text selection UI. Seems like a perfect extension point for other email-focused Chrome extensions... any takers? #NewSuperhuman

Take that Threads!! #IDemandHashtags and now don't need to be that annoying guy to @pfrazee.com anymore!

📢 App Version 1.70 is rolling out now (1/6) Hashtags! You can now use #hashtags in your posts. When you tap them, you’ll get a menu with lots of handy options:

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Thirty Seconds to Mars is a Bluesky stan.

Love the new logo!

📢 App Version 1.60 is rolling out now (1/5) We have a new logo! 🦋 Bluesky is emerging from its cocoon of clouds to transform into a social butterfly. Read more about why we chose this logo here: blueskyweb.xyz/blog/12-21-2...

Threads launches federation before Bluesky. 🤯 www.threads.net/@zuck/post/C... #DiSo

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Noel Dávila

Similar, not the same. 😎

Artifact has become a hub for Bluesky invites.

This is working exactly as designed. Pay for reach, then get compensated the more views your rack up. This is profiteering in the information wars. Can you imagine the size of the checks X creators will be screenshotting in a month? www.wired.com/story/x-isra... #DeadTwitter #IsraelHamasWar

Adjacent... but today I hit 15K followers on Threads, ~95K less than I had on Twitter and 13K more than I have here. Worth tracking because — while the media likes to talk about Threads's struggles — it shouldn't be counted out with federation on the horizon. www.threads.net/@chris #ThreadsStats

"The lesson is to diversify, and never rely on one platform. I think the media was way too reliant on Twitter for years. And now Twitter is going away and look at what’s going on. It’s horrible."

“Don’t fight the future”: Taylor Lorenz on news publishers’ (continuing) adjustment to the i...www.niemanlab.org "The personality-driven model of news is not going away."

Saturday is International Podcast Day and let me just tell you, I'm doing my part to make sure podcasters are HEARD! #NewSpotify #notifs #PodcastDay

Apple still draws a line on #iPhoneDay.

There's literally a hashtag on the center position of Bluesky's tabbar now, yet there's still resistance to calling them hashtags or just adopting the conventional usage. It's fine; it's not my platform. I just don't understand the persistence of the resistance. Where's the logic I'm missing?

hashtags are meant to be the solution for this. it might be more accurate to just call them tags. you'll be able to #inline them but that's more to link to them. the main usage will be outside of the post text in a separate field (where they're a little less intrusive)