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by jakebsky 3y ago
Yes, it's always a bit of an after thought (unfortunately) but we have improved it already a couple of times. And like most things with atproto, there will likely be protocol support for pluggable search engines, so users can choose th
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by jakebsky 3y ago
Sorry about that. You definitely should have received a waitlist invite. We did invite everyone on the waitlist before launching. The deliverability of those emails was quite high but it's possible it went to the spam folder or somethi
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by jakebsky 3y ago
Martin Kleppman is a technical advisor to Bluesky but his real job is as a researcher in distributed systems and security at the University of Cambridge. He also wrote Designing Data-Intensive Applications, which many of us on the team hav
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by jakebsky 3y ago
Sorry about this. We've just made some changes to make this less likely of an issue going forward.
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by jakebsky 3y ago
Nope, it's not a requirement for other PDS operators.
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by jakebsky 3y ago
Netscape created the first highly usable web browser, which introduced most people to the web. They also created SSL (TLS), JavaScript, the first high performance web server, and much more that that made the web go.
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by jakebsky 3y ago
The SMS verification requirement is only for the Bluesky operated PDS host. Soon (this month) it will be possible for others to self-host their own PDS hosts that do not have this requirement.
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by jakebsky 3y ago
We've announced one business model and do intend to iterate and add others, but that's all we've announced for now. The plan is definitely to be sustainable over the long-term.
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by jakebsky 3y ago
We'll see! The history of funded companies popularizing open protocols is not without precedent. I'm inspired by Netscape, which was the VC-backed company that made the web happen.
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by jakebsky 3y ago
There has been some work by others already on this front: https://docs.bsky.app/blog/feature-bridgyfed
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by jakebsky 3y ago
Yes, every part of the Bluesky (atproto) network is composable, including moderation (labeling).
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by jakebsky 3y ago
Understandable! We hope to relax this but we felt it was necessary to maintain the quality of the network for now.
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by jakebsky 3y ago
Bluesky is in good financial shape for quite some time based on existing funding. And we're also working hard to be sustainable, which we believe is entirely feasible given our small team. But we're also ensuring that everything r
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by jakebsky 3y ago
A Relay (we used to call it the BGS) crawls all of the PDS hosts on the network and aggregates the data. This makes it possible for services to subscribe to all events on the network without putting load on PDS hosts directly. Anyone can ru
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by jakebsky 3y ago
Threads has been promising to integrate with ActivityPub since it launched. To date they've done very little and their timeline extends until the end of 2024. I'd personally be very happy if Threads gives up control over their use
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by jakebsky 3y ago
1. "Account portability is the major reason why we chose to build a separate protocol. We consider portability to be crucial because it protects users from sudden bans, server shutdowns, and policy disagreements." https:/&
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by jakebsky 3y ago
There is some work by others to make this possible: https://docs.bsky.app/blog/feature-bridgyfed
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by jakebsky 3y ago
This is a big milestone for Bluesky! We've had the federation sandbox running for over six months but we're now able to commit to open federation on the production network this month as well. There's also stackable moderation
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Bluesky signups are now open to the public(bsky.social)
349 points by jakebsky 3y ago|273 comments
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by jakebsky 3y ago
Sorry about that. The team is very small and quite busy, and we've been doing everything manually. But as of last week we have someone that can dedicate time to recruiting using a proper applicant tracking system. Our process should be
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by jakebsky 3y ago
Bluesky Social, PBC | Backend Developer | Full-time | Remote (US timezone overlap) + Scale our existing services to millions of users + Develop and maintain the AT Protocol implementation (See: atproto.com) + Create SDK and API tools for an
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Why isn't Bluesky a peer-to-peer network?(pfrazee.com)
204 points by jakebsky 3y ago|161 comments
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by jakebsky 3y ago
We're using SQLite in production with millions of databases with many millions of operations per day. It's been nothing but great, as has always been my experience using SQLite. But we did run into some scariness around trying to
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by jakebsky 3y ago
Running this code on an "on-prem" AMD EPYC 9454P with 12 x 64 GB DIMMs: 1 37.4 2 73.3 3 107.3 4 141.4 5 171.6 6 199.5 7 226.0 8 251.1 9 235.4 10 243.0 11 264.5 12 281.9 13 303.7 14 323.0 15 339.6
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by jakebsky 3y ago
You definitely could but it's pretty technically involved and not as easy as it will be in the future. And it would have to be siloed off from the production Bluesky/atproto network at the moment.
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by jakebsky 3y ago
Typically invites are used by people who are inviting people they know, in which case it's advantageous for them to be able to find each other. But you're right that there's an argument that it could work differently. We&#x27
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by jakebsky 3y ago
Yup, you could. Although connecting your own PDS hosts to the Bluesky production network won't be possible for a little while longer. Creating custom algorithms (feeds) is already possible, as it participating in the developer sandbox
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by jakebsky 3y ago
Sent you an email, in case you're willing to give some info we can use to investigate this. We're always willing to look into any issues like this. Thanks!
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by jakebsky 3y ago
Thank you! And yeah, the goal is to bring an open social media protocol to everyone in a way that feels familiar and easy. The social media problems we face are societal and most of society is non-technical. The domain situation is unfortun
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by jakebsky 3y ago
Yeah, that's right. The production network's data layer (Personal Data Servers) are architecturally federated now (i.e. there are multiple PDS hosts) but still operated by a single organization (Bluesky Social, PBC), so it's

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