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To put it another way: Google search works by making their own copy of the Internet. It's much smaller scale, but similarly, atproto makes downloading the entir
by skybrian 1mo ago
To put it another way: Google search works by making their own copy of the Internet. It's much smaller scale, but similarly, atproto makes downloading the entire social network relatively easy. Many ordinary techies have the resources to replicate the whole thing if they wanted to. To query your replica, you use a database, designed however you like.
So the question is, are you okay with giving random people a mirror of your public posts? After all, they're public. It's like putting them in a repo on Github for anyone to clone.
Google's Go Module Mirror is a similar but more specialized service that has a copy of all the Go modules that anyone has published on the Internet.
- TeMPOraL 1mo ago> So the question is, are you okay with giving random people a mirror of your public posts? After all, they're public. It's like putting them in a repo on Github for anyone to clone. That makes no sense - and yes, I'm aware that people think like this, even though it's entirely contradictory. If you intend to make information public, you relinquish control over access to it. Trying to walk that back, or even to retain capability of walking it back, is perverting the system and turning the earlier claim of information being public into a lie.
- someothherguyy 1mo agojust because someone shared something within a small circle of intended observers, doesn't mean they want some omniscient entity to be able to discover it and use it as they desire. i think the atproto has mechanisms for this?
- skybrian 1mo agoNot yet, but soon. There’s a “Spaces” proposal in alpha testing: https://atproto.com/blog/atproto-spaces-alpha https://atproto.com/blog/atproto-spaces-alpha
- skybrian 1mo agoI think a lot of people prefer to post in obscurity. It’s somewhat similar to the “share with anyone who has access to the link” security model.