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Graze, a startup that lets people build and monetize custom feeds for Bluesky’s social network, has attracted new capital. Pre-seed investors, led by Betaworks and Salesforce Ventures, have invested $1 million in the company’s small team, which is working to give users control over their algorithms and social media experiences.

1/2 of the dev team here

We aren't quite done here yet, not even official 1.0, but happy to answer questions!

What exactly would that be?

I feel like the middle ground your talking about could be just a feed?

A feed is: a server that consumes the firehose and decided on whether to store posts, when loaded in the app it returns some post to create a feed

So essentially you only store references to part of the network rather than storing the whole thing

I built one of those. Twitter's API isn't going to do you any favors. There is no publicly available API to get the replies to a tweet. So building out a full thread is hard. Then once you figure out how to use their internal API you'll quickly hit rate limits </3

If you use VSCode just put `// @ts-check` at the top of your files. I find a bunch of bugs with just that.

It's actually accessible. take a look at this tweet and inspect the image. all the code is in the alt attribute. So they have thought of that. This will only be if you tweet it from their webapp though.

It would be cool if there was a way to copy paste the text easier.

The 805 is by far the worst freeway in SD. During any commuting time, you are bound to crawl.

As a 23 year old software engineer that recently chose to live in SD over SF I find this article kind of funny. It didn't make sense to me to choose a place where i might make more money, but have to spend it all to live. Life can be pretty cheap in SD. I live 20 minutes/15 miles from work, a commute that would take an hour in the bay. I also pay <$700 for the master bedroom in my house. I'm also a 10 min uber to any downtown spot I want. Not much overpriced food here either, and many options if you drive 15 minutes. You may not be working at Google or Apple down here, but that might not be the worst thing.

I think some of this might be offset by the fact that this plan doesn't seem to focus on just cars. A solar product described in the first step of the plan could help fund the cars.

A lot of people i know default, including me, to using snapchat as their main camera in most situations. You can download whatever you take a picture of through the app and choose not to post it at all. It has all the features i need from the camera plus some basic photo editing. Also the reverse isn't true: I cant take a picture through the normal camera then choose to post it to snapchat. this both locks you into using the Snapchat camera and ensures that most pics you see on snapchat are taken in the moment, which is very important to the app. btw I'm 23

Very Cool! I've been thinking a lot about decentralized social networks and the value that they could bring. With companies I love like Soundcloud so far in the red, it is only time until they go under or change fundamentally. I think this idea of decentralized feeds fits very well with the current state of music, many different artists, collectives, and labels that basically only exist on the internet. If anyone wants to explore the idea with me I am very open to it!