https://philwheat.net/tags/social/Recent content in Social on Phil WheatHugoen-usTue, 13 Oct 2026 09:15:00 -0500https://philwheat.net/links/bluesky/Tue, 13 Oct 2026 09:15:00 -0500https://philwheat.net/links/bluesky/<p>Bluesky news feeds. Needs more work to become more useful.</p> <p>Bluesky is the microblogging network built on the AT Protocol — chronological feeds, user-built custom feeds, and a federated identity model. I&rsquo;m on it as philwheat.bsky.social. The raw firehose is noisy; the custom-feed system is where it can become genuinely useful, and that curation is still a work in progress.</p>https://philwheat.net/links/hachyderm/Tue, 13 Oct 2026 08:35:00 -0500https://philwheat.net/links/hachyderm/<p>Hachyderm is one of the largest Mastodon servers, founded for and popular with hackers, scientists, and tech-sector folks (it&rsquo;s where much of the 2022 Twitter exodus of AI/ML people landed). The linked page is its public explore view — trending posts, hashtags, and links across the server. A good starting point for following the fediverse&rsquo;s technical crowd; like any Mastodon instance you can browse logged-out and interact from any server.</p>