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another thing: support independent developers because bluesky itself just received a US$100 MILLION investment, they won't be needing your money but we do

deck.blue is currently funded by around 900 paid patrons and that's the only money I have from this, I have never received any investment besides myself paying for stuff before the Patreon support independent developers, artists and makers in general because those companies already have enough

you can now support all feed builders at once!

I wonder how they plan to have a return on that investment.

Does it work well on the iPad or is it the same as the iPhone, but with larger text?

deck.blue is optimized for desktop and tablet usage

it's actually quite a bit sad that i'm one of the few atproto developers that's openly against generative AI when the company is pushing for stuff like this as part of their main experience do people really just want to type text in an input field instead of learn how to do stuff?

Where do you see the generative part in this? It is an index on steroids.

what? it's literally a conversational UI that uses LLMs to generate a feed, they're calling it Agentic too an index on steroids is skyfeed.app

at least in the software development field it feels like a lost battle, every engineer is just treating it as the Next Thing while not considering all other factors around it like... how it's a fascist technology built by fascists for their fascist needs do people just not think anymore?

classmates, my teachers, pros giving presentations, and now (after recently finishing school), my colleagues Close to everyone in the field, it seems. Meanwhile I.. like learning and doing new stuff ? Probably the whole reason I got into computers ? Why would I let go of that ?

gonna have to take a page from @theonion.com here

I appreciate you a lot for your anti-genAI stance, and it's why I feel good about recommending deck blue to everybody, besides the fact that it's just a great interface!

I find it really funny that bsky seems to have forgotten how 99% of its users came in here to escape the AI crap of twt, and now they... release AI slop... Bruh

i hope it is a lost battle and that the stupid robots substitute the stupid people who made the stupid robots in the first place, none of you deserve a world that works

They don't. It's new, and shiny, and can look good in very limited ways when it can copy common code. My job keeps trying to force me to use it despite the fact that I have some of the highest ticket throughput without ever touching an LLM.

you're so real and based

I keep not using it and being the best developer at my company.

From their release I didn’t get the sense they are “pushing” for it so much as trying to find a way to satisfy people that DO want it more ethically and sustainably. I didn’t get the sense that it is going to be a part of the main experience at all

I remember when they debuted tags, and thee first was a boba/kiki label that when subscribed to gave you a 50/50 chance of either tags. Dev said they used AI which is just sad considering making rng code is like, the first lesson in any code class. :/

It was never a 50/50 RNG, what are you talking about?