Spatio-temporal indexing the BlueSky firehose
Joel Gustafson / Posts / 2025-08-07
I recently added a "spatial feed" to Aurora, my map of Bluesky. Now, in addition to seeing community clusters laid out on a giant map, you can also see a real-time of posts from just the accounts currently in view. This works smoothly at all scales — you can see the most recent posts from the entire network when zoomed all the way out, and local posts from any neighborhood when zoomed in.
How does this work?
This is actually the first (and only) backend servic...
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