Reed Harmeyer

@reedharmeyer.bsky.social

Hedge Engineer @skylight.social

Warm up your six-second acts! Divine is available in the app stores! 😇 We are kicking things off with invite codes, so we can be certain the app is stable and gives everyone the best experience. Want in? Check out our latest Instagram to get a code. 👀

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Thanks for having me on @mmccue.bsky.social! It was a pleasure ☺️ Huge shout out to @flipboard.com for platforming Open Social voices! If you’re looking for an incredible podcast catalog that deep dives into Open Social, I can’t recommend the Dot Social podcast more! 🙌🏽

Flipboard@flipboard.com · 4mo ago

When TikTok’s future felt uncertain, @buildwithtori.com saw an opportunity. On the latest #DotSocial, @mmccue.bsky.social sits down with @skylight.social's CEO to talk about building a creator-first video platform on the AT Protocol. dot-social.simplecast.com/episodes/tor... #ATmosphereConf

Up with @pfrazee.com and @reedharmeyer.bsky.social on a panel where we'll be competing to be the biggest knucklehead on atproto - it's an honor just to be nominated etc

Atmosphere Community@atmosphere.community · 5mo ago

Expo is also joining us in person at the conference: Eltio @eliot.sh from the @expo.dev team will be moderating a panel: From protocol to product, How Expo powers the next wave of atproto apps - with @pfrazee.com, @reedharmeyer.bsky.social, and @iame.li atmosphereconf.org/event/Y561Qv6

I’m so proud of Sam Darnold for learning how to play under pressure the way that he has. It comes natural to some guys but he’s had to work at it, even this year. He went from throwing four picks against the Rams to having a clean playoff run. I find that really inspiring!

Skylight has been kicking my ass for the past five days. Basically all of the problems can be traced back to the changes I had to make when we shut down servers in November. That left some deep scars in this codebase.

I regret saying this, I don’t actually think that every app having a PDS is the solution. IMO some form of sub-accounts and account merging is more promising. I think having a PDS provider that you trust more than your apps is the way. I just also think people will want more than one account.

Reed Harmeyer@reedharmeyer.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Yep, I think a lot of this would’ve been helped if we had a PDS. It would help us say “you are posting on the open internet” instead of “you are posting on Bluesky”

I’d say we tried the TikTok clone thing and it was just a bad way to go. Skylight v3 has overlap with TikTok but Skylight v1 was eclipsed by it. Ironically we are a more viable TikTok replacement today because we are more of a Bluesky client :)