https://github.com/theosanderson/firehose
I just love that the open nature of Bsky is allowing people to hack things like this.
Now that their growth is crazy, let's hope that the work they did on the protocol and corp structure keeps it this way.
Crashes like a Windows ME screensaver. Jokes aside, it's very fun to see open firehose access like this. I seem to recall that Dorsey had said that twitter limiting their api access was a mistake, hope we can keep this going.
I absolutely love these firehose projects. So much fun. Makes me hope Bluesky gets 10x bigger soon :D.
If you add the following line just prior to the return in createTextTexture() the blurriness goes away:
texture.anisotropy = renderer.capabilities.getMaxAnisotropy();
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This is cool! A long time ago I wanted to make something a little like this for my 20% project at Google/YouTube - a page that rained thumbnails of uploaded videos as soon as they became available.
Unfortunately, the idea was nixed since it had a pretty high chance of exposing ugly stuff that would otherwise have been lost in obscurity and never seen.
Reminds me of this old website I used to stare at for long periods, found it very relaxing: "Listen to Wikipedia" http://listen.hatnote.com/
I noticed that for messages facing the camera, ones further away from the screen occlude ones closer to the screen. I assume there's an alpha layering/rendering order error going on (assuming no order-independent transparency)?
Seeing some depth-sorting issues with the text on Safari (macOS). Some distant head-on text (not on the sides of the "tunnel") is being drawn over nearer head-on text. Also, sometimes top of text is being clipped a bit.
Very cool though.
This is SO cool I love it. Feels like I'm reading snippets from a million people's diaries one after another. Humbling!
This crashes my Safari browser on iOS.
This is like a visualization of my anxiety. Too much coming in at once to possibly process, so higher order cognitive function just goes welp
Love it! I seriously want to use it as a background for my server.
(any chance to publish a version with a configurable speed?)
Also just saw this project, which is a little night sky scene where stars are posts. No real interactivity but fun to see the playing around! https://nightsky.hctr.dev/ https://bsky.app/profile/hctr.dev/post/3lb3ywnxac22n
Whoa, Johnny Mnemonic (1995) calling.
Also, these experiments are good fun, anytime there's a plethora of data available to play with it's a good time.... but anyone else get the weird sense of having been here before? Early Twitter days lots of this kind of thing was going on too with all the tweet data. Until they weren't. When everyone at Twitter woke up and realized it wasn't sustainable financially and technically to keep open firehoses out there. And then the API limits started creeping in and never really stopped. Just saying, we've been here and it's hard to see it playing out a different way even with ATProto's sorta decentralized whatever future.
This is really cool, and within the first 5 seconds gave me a phrase that will be stuck in my head for a long time: arrogance is not a substitute for intelligence, Sebastian. IDK who Sebastian is, but I will be sure to let him know if ever I meet him.
I was like.. "Why do so many of the non-wall posts seem to have fire emojis in them?"
Turns out:
if (text.includes('fire-emoji') || wall > 3) { wall = -1; }
It's funny how palpable this snippet is while looking at the firehose.
https://github.com/theosanderson/firehose/blob/77225acb28985...
I like the possibilities given by the openness of bluesky
You can increase the texture resolution if you "zoom out" of your browser (ctrl+scrolldown or ctrl+- in Firefox)
If you are interested if something usefull can build with atproto firehose, here you go https://www.graphtracks.com
Would be interesting to know how the app is deployed. I see there are some k8s yaml files: does the deployment happen manually (e.g., run kubectl commands inside the cluster)? Is there some sort of pipeline perhaps? (I don’t see any in the repo)
Needs more Ellie Goulding: https://helloenjoy.com/lights/
This is trippy as hell on my 40" ultrawide. Love it.
Once upon a time, browsers had a stop button to pause animations. Now im hunting menus for that button so i can pause the firehose.
Which windows screen saver was this exactly? Is it maze?
Really neat. Feels kinda surrealistic. A bit heavy on my broswer though.
Is there a way to run stuff like this as an actual screensaver (on Debian)?
The firehouse will allow the scolds and hall monitors to more easily hunt down the blasphemers and wrong thinkers.
It's a nice visualization, but it reminds me of why I avoid social media. Endless, worthless garbage spewed out into the void.
Cool, but this nearly hard crashed my phone. I'm on a OP12 which is one of the fastest phones you can buy.
It feels like Clippy is about to pop out and kick my butt. The authentic XP experience.
Totally crashes chrome on iOS - repeatedly in strange ways
I would like to know how far through the firehose I have traveled
I have no clue what "Bluesky firehose" even means.
This pretty quickly crashed my tab, using Chrome on Android.
Really cool! Works smoother in Firefox than Safari
This is incredible. It's all I ever wanted.
Hack the Gibson!
Warning: May Cause Seizures
Not sure about your feeds but I got a lot of moping over Twitter/X.
crashed my firefox
Whoa!
The internet, was supposed to be like this. I used to perceive it like this in its early days. And then it got enshittified.
This is fucking bonkers, bro.
Love it!
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A lot of commenters here are having their minds blown by this. And while I also love this I get the sense that many others here are maybe too young to remember that this kind of open access to data used to exist for lots websites. It inspired companion sites and loads of creativity. I find it tragic really, what the internet has become. I hope federated, and even more-so p2p, protocols take significant foothold on the internet and help revive this spirit of the web. The corpo-web is so fucking boring.