divepool Thoughts
divepool did not introduce new friends to me so far. What is it still missing?
Who would be good first users? Are these questions related? Ideally both would be near Hamburg, Germany, where I live.
divepool does not handle location in a special way. There is no extra way to query it. I remember using Google to search Twitter profiles. Since content indexed by divepool is not mine, it would feel iffy to index in Google. Also, Google probably has the sources indexed already. Anyway, location data and querying functionality seems to be one thing that is missing. I should look into that. Some people publish their location like I do.
Is location the only thing missing? To be fair: did I find friends via Bluesky or Hacker News themselves?
I met many interesting people at ATproto related conferences and meetups. On average, they seem a little more idealistic / less interested in economic success than I. I wonder whether some of them would like to work on their own projects full time someday, too.
BTW, I did actually kinda meet one person due to divepool, albeit not through my feed, but while using divepool embeddings to do some business research for my day job. They were basically spamming Bluesky, but with above average quality.
So another aspect missing from divepool might be: showing more business-minded people. This is probably related to the general audience feeling drawn to Bluesky. Feels like HN data could help here.
This by the way happens every time I want to write a blog entry: I come up with ideas that I then want to evaluate, forgetting the blog entry. But who ever found a friend coding in their chamber?
(So if you are near Hamburg and building something, say hi.)
