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Ask HN: Bluesky Accounts Worth Following for HN Enthusiasts
Hey fellow HN enthusiasts!
I'm looking to expand my Bluesky feed with accounts that share interesting, tech-related content, similar to what we discuss here on HN.
- pasturrock 2y agoStarter Packs are definitely the way to go. Search by your interests here: https://blueskydirectory.com/starter-packs/all?ref=Referred+by+0x0.boo+on+Bluesky https://blueskydirectory.com/starter-packs/all?ref=Referred+... I've only been using it a few weeks, but will be mainly posting about startup strategy for bootstrappers: https://bsky.app/profile/psturrock.bsky.social https://bsky.app/profile/psturrock.bsky.social
- curious_cat_163 2y agoThis collection of starter packs might be useful: https://github.com/stevendborrelli/bluesky-tech-starter-packs https://github.com/stevendborrelli/bluesky-tech-starter-pack...
- IAmGraydon 2y agoWow that’s great. Thanks!
- jessmartin 2y agoHighly recommend the starter packs for finding people!
- yen223 2y agoStarter packs are such a cool and obvious idea for onboarding new users. Probably won't be long before the other sites introduce something similar.
- SanjayMehta 2y agoThis is great. Is there something like this for Mastodon as well?
- krapp 2y agoUnfortunately not, as far as I'm aware.
- sphars 2y agoI would take a look at Fedi.Directory[0], a directory of accounts to follow based on category, and curated by humans. [0]: https://fedi.directory/ https://fedi.directory/
- aspect0545 2y agoI didn’t know about this, thanks for sharing!
- atfgull 2y agoThis is great!
- consumer451 2y agoHere is a super useful tool to copy Starter Pack users into a List, combine Lists, and more. Lists are great because you can use them as feeds that show the posts from only those users. https://nws-bot.us/bskyStarterPack.php https://nws-bot.us/bskyStarterPack.php
- Aachen 2y agoI see a lot of people on Mastodon posting jokes about Twitter users moving to another centralised and venture capital-backed platform, like that "this time it will be different for sure!". I haven't read up on it myself so don't know what to think. Can someone burst my bubble on this? Edit: saw a lot of valid responses, thanks! My question is answered and I might sign up on bsky as well if I get bored on Mastodon or want to connect with someone there :)
- Gigachad 2y agoPersonally I don't really care that Bluesky is centralized, I actually prefer it since it's easier to use and there isn't the risk that my random server admin is going to go rouge or shut down the server like you get with Mastodon. Twitter was pretty much fine until Musk started shitting it up so something that is pretty much like Twitter pre Musk is all I want. Bluesky fills that position well.
- caycep 2y agorogue.
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- schwax 2y agoI see why people might say it but "Bluesky is centralized" isn't an especially accurate criticism. The protocol allows essentially any aspect of Bluesky to be decentralized, up to and including starting a competing service that still interoperates with Bluesky users—no permission required.
- groby_b 2y agoI haven't seen those, mostly because finding people on Mastodon is impossible ;) Maybe it will be different, maybe it won't. But the people moving to bsky care more about usability than they care about federation. They're not saying "this time will be different", they're picking a platform they feel comfortable using and don't care about VC money or not. If that doesn't align with your values, maybe you don't want to join them. Because, yes, bsky is investor-financed, and at some point they'll need money. You might not agree with how they'll make that money, and it will be indeed no different. Your bubble is right on that.
- adamgordonbell 2y agoI've just started using my account, but follow me: https://bsky.app/profile/adamgordonbell.bsky.social https://bsky.app/profile/adamgordonbell.bsky.social I have a podcast about software development, corecursive.com, and I also share other interesting things I'm up to.
- IAmGraydon 2y agoFollowed!
- adamgordonbell 2y agoWait, is this Graydon Hoare? Followed back.
- IAmGraydon 2y agoNo certainly not. My name isn’t actually Graydon, but it’s the name of a place where I used to live and so I’ve long been using it as my online moniker.
- steveklabnik 2y agoWhile your parent is not, that Graydon is here: https://bsky.app/profile/graydon-pub.bsky.social https://bsky.app/profile/graydon-pub.bsky.social
- hehehheh 2y agoWell that Fargate article looks interesting. I had no idea there was a serverless pod management system you can talk to with tools like k9!
- adamgordonbell 2y agoThanks! yeah, k9 is pretty cool. It's more that fargate in EKS looks like normal k8s than anyhting else, but thanks for the follow.
- xena 2y agoI post regularly about tech things: https://bsky.app/profile/xeiaso.net https://bsky.app/profile/xeiaso.net, if you have a cool domain attached to your account, I'll follow back!
- r721 2y agoMike Masnick https://bsky.app/profile/mmasnick.bsky.social https://bsky.app/profile/mmasnick.bsky.social
- rawrmaan 2y agoHey all! I write about decentralized wireless networks (specifically Helium) https://bsky.app/profile/rawrmaan.com https://bsky.app/profile/rawrmaan.com
- pthangeda 2y agohttps://bsky.app/profile/pthangeda.bsky.social https://bsky.app/profile/pthangeda.bsky.social Hey everyone! I mostly post about robotics and automation, and occasionally transit and trains.
- yen223 2y agoI'm relatively new on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/weiyen.net https://bsky.app/profile/weiyen.net I've been posting Postgres stuff for some reason The Postgres starter pack is worth following too: https://bsky.app/starter-pack/did:plc:pqezpw5jkucrahb5pdelw5td/3l72fsuwbnu26 https://bsky.app/starter-pack/did:plc:pqezpw5jkucrahb5pdelw5...
- huevosabio 2y agoI haven't posted yet, but here is my handle: https://bsky.app/profile/huevosabio.bsky.social https://bsky.app/profile/huevosabio.bsky.social I usually post on the other site about politics, AI, games.
- snats 2y agoI post about ML/DL and SWE at https://bsky.app/profile/snats.xyz https://bsky.app/profile/snats.xyz
- eseidel 2y agoI post about Flutter & Dart. https://bsky.app/profile/eseidel.bsky.social https://bsky.app/profile/eseidel.bsky.social (I previously founded/led flutter.dev. If you’re using Flutter or Dart, I’d like to make sure you have a great experience, reach out!)
- yewey 2y agooh . perfect. hey technical bluesky. i have a challenge for you. tail the firehose on bluesky and calculate how many posts per second there are. its 90-130 today. my observation is that its trending downward by 15-30 posts a second per day despite the upward alleged user growth. and is that number going up or DOWN despite allegedly being 20x bigger than ever and a million new accounts a day? #!/bin/bash ./websocat4.x86_64-unknown-linux-musl wss://jetstream.atproto.tools/subscribe\?wantedCollections=app.bsky.feed.post |pv --line-mode --rate > /dev/null so what are these millions of new accounts if they dont post anything?
- duxup 2y agoI can’t answer or even evaluate your interpretation. But let’s assume that the people are there and there’s a lot less posting and more reading. Maybe that’s ok, or even better? Not saying it is, but maybe?
- jaimex2 2y agoTantrums about X can only last so long. On the upside we all got the opportunity to just block any accounts announcing their departure from X.
- maxwell 2y agoThey're just dippin their toes in!
- rsynnott 2y agoMight be a time-of-day thing? Activity generally looks fairly stable with a small down-trend, but nothing on the scale you're suggesting: https://bskycharts.edavis.dev/bluesky-week.html https://bskycharts.edavis.dev/bluesky-week.html
- jessmartin 2y agoI post about local-first, future of computing, protocols, education, and, recently, AI engineering. Once they add gifs, I’ll post more “build out loud” threads. https://bsky.app/profile/jessmart.in https://bsky.app/profile/jessmart.in
- terminaltrove 2y ago[dead]
- IAmGraydon 2y agoAny good ones for keeping up to date on the cutting edge of AI coding tools?
- ks2048 2y agoA few tech/ML related that I've found to follow, Jeremy Howard @jph.bsky.social Gaël Varoquaux @gaelvaroquaux.bsky.social antirez @antirez.bsky.social Armin Ronacher @mitsuhiko.at Brewster Kahle @brewster.kahle.org Hacker News Top Stories @hackernewsbot.bsky.social Simon Willison @simonwillison.net Julia Evans @b0rk.jvns.ca Miguel de Icaza @migueldeicaza.bsky.social Randall Munroe @xkcd.com Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social karpathy @karpathy.bsky.social François Chollet @fchollet.bsky.social
- sli 2y agoNew versions of the same old social media will never fix the problems of social media.
- mgraybosch 2y ago[dead]
- frankhorrigan 2y agoYou just have to ride the wave with social media sites. Same as dating apps. Use them before they rot.
- happytoexplain 2y agoYes, but asking people not to use social media is not constructive. I don't use any, but I understand why people do, psychologically speaking. It's inevitable. The least they can do is migrate to whichever seems least enshittified at the moment.
- rsynnott 2y agoSure, but for those of us who enjoyed old-Twitter, eh, it's better than nothing.
- fsflover 2y agoMastodon is far from nothing.
- stackghost 2y agoI'm so glad to see an influx of tech and security related accounts on bsky. When I was last using bsky a lot under a different account, it was a much smaller site and a lot of the major posters seemed to mostly just be involved with interpersonal drama.
- dgeiser13 2y agohttps://bsky-follow-finder.theo.io/ https://bsky-follow-finder.theo.io/
- windex 2y agoDoes Bluesky also have the bot problem? Cant stand X for this reason.
- atfgull 2y agohttps://bsky.app/profile/skillissues.bsky.social https://bsky.app/profile/skillissues.bsky.social
- tetrisgm 2y agoI was there when it was like 500 people. Took a break and came back. Mostly post about product and game development. Sho.bsky.social
- dSebastien 2y agoFollow me if you want to explore knowledge management, journaling and note-taking: https://bsky.app/profile/dsebastien.bsky.social https://bsky.app/profile/dsebastien.bsky.social I'm going to work on starter kits for those topics, to help people find makers, creators, abd like-minded people
- avinassh 2y agoHey! I am @avi.im I mostly post stuff about databases, distributed systems and my frustrations with Rust https://bsky.app/profile/avi.im https://bsky.app/profile/avi.im
- rcarmo 2y agoI’m over at https://bsky.app/profile/rcarmo.bsky.social https://bsky.app/profile/rcarmo.bsky.social
- jeanlucas 2y agoI'm Jean Lucas - https://bsky.app/profile/jeanlucas.bsky.social https://bsky.app/profile/jeanlucas.bsky.social 80% of my posts are about tech both in Portuguese and English, I also repost a lot of tech takes. I try to give some Brazilian perspective on tech, if possible.
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- max_ 2y agoMy account is https://bsky.app/profile/asindu.xyz https://bsky.app/profile/asindu.xyz
- vs4vijay 2y agoMy account - https://bsky.app/profile/vs4vijay.bsky.social https://bsky.app/profile/vs4vijay.bsky.social
- antognini 2y agoI am posting about the history of astronomy: https://bsky.app/profile/antognini.bsky.social https://bsky.app/profile/antognini.bsky.social
- witoldw 2y agoI'll be posting about science, genetics, and how privacy is important. https://bsky.app/profile/witold.bsky.social https://bsky.app/profile/witold.bsky.social
- reacharavindh 2y agoI posted some from woodworking. I plan to share computer stuff. https://bsky.app/profile/reacharavindh.bsky.social https://bsky.app/profile/reacharavindh.bsky.social
- craigkerstiens 2y agoI've been maintaining a starter pack for Postgres people - https://go.bsky.app/Acp7hmk https://go.bsky.app/Acp7hmk
- kiru_io 2y agoIf you want to follow: https://bsky.app/profile/kiruio.bsky.social https://bsky.app/profile/kiruio.bsky.social I will post about: - SwiftUI - App Store Apps - Indie Hacking / Solo Dev / Bootstrapping - Elixir once in a while - and unavoidably JavaScript :)
- jeffreysmith 2y agoI post about AI and its applications to fashion, with occasional digressions into weaving, NYC, and dogs. https://bsky.app/profile/jeffksmith.bsky.social https://bsky.app/profile/jeffksmith.bsky.social
- mooreds 2y agoHmmm. It might be fun to create a HN leaders starter pack.
- gls2ro 2y agoI am writing and sharing only about Ruby and Ruby on Rails at https://bsky.app/profile/lucianghinda.com https://bsky.app/profile/lucianghinda.com in case there are topics that might interest you
- ogou 2y agoHiding reposts has been the killer feature of Bluesky. Main reason I spend more time there now. tech art, synthesizer builds, history https://bsky.app/profile/lucidbeaming.com https://bsky.app/profile/lucidbeaming.com
- grvdrm 2y agoHaven't posted much (yet) to BSky but write about tech, insurance, climate, and products I like to use: https://bsky.app/profile/groovedrm.bsky.social https://bsky.app/profile/groovedrm.bsky.social
- Maclezzy 2y ago[flagged]
- joshestroud 2y agoarcalinea
- jarko27 2y agoDefinitely can recommend pragmatic engineer blog profile https://bsky.app/profile/gergely.pragmaticengineer.com https://bsky.app/profile/gergely.pragmaticengineer.com You may find there stories about software engineering, tech companies, tech jobs market and more. Gergely just recently joined Bluesky, so at least for me it's minus one reason to open Twitter.
- brokegrammer 2y agoI write about web development topics concerning Python, Django, and Javascript: https://bsky.app/profile/joshkaramuth.com https://bsky.app/profile/joshkaramuth.com Btw, I've never been a social media person and was wondering how you guys get followers on such platforms. Care to share tips?