Bluesky is built by around 10 engineers, and has amassed 5 million users since publicly launching in February this year. A deep dive into novel design decisions, moving off AWS, and more.
Avraham Eisenberg, the person who was just found guilty of exploiting the Mango Markets crypto project, has now been charged with possession of child sexual abuse material.
this is not altogether surprising, given an august 2023 filing in his market manipulation case that disclosed that the FBI had found CSAM while searching a cell phone of his in relation to his crypto theft
silver lining: it was awfully thoughtful of all these boston college administrations to draw the attention of a group of young, energetic, politically active students to last year's "tent ordinance" that cruelly targets the unhoused and is now being used to crack down on speech
interesting, Roger Stone deleted one of his tweets shilling a "MAGA Memecoin" after I pointed out that these tweets likely violate SEC rules
most of his other promo tweets remain, though, and have similar issues
took me a few attempts to say "bitcoin memecoins" in my newsletter voiceover without saying "beancoins", but I think I may be on to something here
Infra stack: from AWS to on-prem. AWS was becoming too costly, so Bluesky moved over to dedicated data centers and bare-metal machines.
That's not something you read every day.
So excited to hear that the Ghost blogging software is going to support federation via ActivityPub! https://activitypub.ghost.org/
If you sign up for updates, they have a survey where they're asking for feedback. Now's your chance to get your suggestions in!
Cool to see Ghost taking this step, while Substack is over there trying to build walls around their product to trap people in.
Ghost's post is also how I learned that Buttondown is working on ActivityPub support! 🙌 Exciting times.
it is such a delight to have my own microblogging space again, for random braindumps that don't belong in the newsletter
i missed it