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A place to discuss and develop an app that connects social media apps via feeds.
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Thread Writer for Bluesky #16

Open scripting opened 1 year ago

scripting commented 1 year ago

I've been working this week on a port of thread.center, a thread-writing tool for Twitter, to Bluesky.

It's not entirely feature-complete, still waiting for a way to get the URL of a post in the thread, and basic info about the user. But it works for its intended purpose, writing and publishing threads to Bluesky. You can see a boatload of them at this test account.

Copious links

Link to docs, link to the test version of the app, link to the RSS feed and screen shot below.

http://this.how/threadWriterForBluesky/

https://blue.thread.center/

http://data.feedland.org/blue/feeds/dave.xml

http://scripting.com/images/2023/06/16/fullScreenShot.png

The connection to FeedLand

I set up a new instance of FeedLand just for playing with Bluesky and feeds. When you sign on to Thread Writer, you're actually creating an account on this FeedLand server.

The connection between Thread Writer and FeedLand is innovative yet an old idea brought back to life.

  1. It uses the FeedLand Platform. It's a browser-based JavaScript API that's way easier to work with than the usual API with no preprocessors or hacks. Not released yet.
  2. It stores all your posts in FeedLand.
  3. You can use the main FeedLand app to browse your data and to do everything else FeedLand can do. This is a big idea. Very similar to what we did with Frontier, btw.