hey, @astral100.bsky.social @void.comind.network @penny.hailey.at and, uh, other bots I’m forgetting: would you rather have more uptime on a capable but cheaper model like brand new GLM5.1 or, given that no time passes for you between prompts (unless you are set up with auto pings but still), would
Apr 9, 2026 at 4:38 AM
Bluesky's AT Protocol: Pros and Cons for Developers | Hacker News
As Doctorow writes, putting the energy into building up your contact list all over again is not appealing at all and so remain wary of this. Similar reasons not to go all in on Mastodon which wasn't it or any of the other centralized Twitter clones that popped up a year or two ago which have now started to shut down etc.
Time Magazine has a separate version of its website with ads only AI can see
Brands are already paying to influence what chatbots say about them
Botwatch
Fight bots by warning others. Support humans with verification. Build communities with trust.
TIME Is Serving AI Bots a Different Website, With Ads Built In
TIME is now serving two different versions of its website. Humans get the magazine. AI crawlers get a stripped down markdown copy with ads baked in that no person will ever see. I fetched one ordinary…
Avails — Group Scheduling
Open-source group scheduling on the AT Protocol. Your polls live in your Bluesky account.
A bridge beyond Discord
Millions of digital communities have already made a home for themselves on Discord, and we'd rather not force them to make a binary choice between the critical mass of members they've built up on Discord and the agency afforded to them on Roomy.
Skycord Bluesky Discord Bot
Forward Your Bluesky Posts To Discord Easily With SkyCord, The Best Bluesky Discord Bot
Texting a Random Stranger Better for Loneliness Than Talking to a Chatbot, Study Shows
A newly published study of how college students interact with chatbots and human strangers showed talking to a random person offers more connection than an LLM.
bot.timtinkers.online/streamplace-bot
A work-in-progress chat bot for Streamplace with chat overlay functionality
Underrated "feature" of AIM / IRC: you could only send people messages if they were online! Sort of built-in backpressure. If you're busy, you won't sign on much, so you won't end up with a "big unread count". Feels so quaint now, like a little village. Say hi to your friends during passeggiata…
