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by jakebsky 3y ago
The protocol that the Bluesky app is built on, atproto[1], is designed to support other social modes. The Bluesky app is in some ways "just" a reference implementation of microblogging, created to ensure the protocol actually work
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by jakebsky 3y ago
There is still a waitlist but we're working hard to open things up ASAP. Some people will never believe it, but the waitlist was never intended as a growth hack. It was purely an attempt to keep the network healthy and the servers from
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by jakebsky 3y ago
In the early days, Twitter used to have a very open and friendly API. It's a big part of why users and third-party devs (I was both) loved it. Same thing was true of Facebook and Reddit. Over time, they shut down their APIs (or charged
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by jakebsky 3y ago
The Bluesky federation sandbox network is up and running as of months ago, which works exactly how the production network will work. The production network is also federated internally (i.e. Bluesky already runs 10 Personal Data Servers) to
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by jakebsky 3y ago
This is a very reasonable and common question (I asked it myself before joining the team) Account portability is the major reason why we chose to build a separate protocol. We consider portability to be crucial because it protects users fr
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A New Look for Bluesky: The Social Butterfly(blueskyweb.xyz)
18 points by jakebsky 3y ago|10 comments
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Bluesky releases public web interface for non-logged in users(bsky.app)
6 points by jakebsky 3y ago|0 comments
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by jakebsky 3y ago
Using SQLite is most certainly not "building their own filebased database-system" SQLite is just about as mature and well-tested as it gets in the entire world of software: https://www.sqlite.org/testing.html Each
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by jakebsky 3y ago
The BGS is a "dumb" relay and mirror of the network, so it generally shouldn't matter which one your client app is ultimately sourcing data from. But yes, anyone is free to operate a BGS. It does necessarily require a non-tri
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by jakebsky 3y ago
The BGS (which is an atproto "relay" service) subscribes to all PDS event streams on the entire network, and aggregates and relays them. This way it's possible to get all network data from a single place (the BGS) rather than
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by jakebsky 3y ago
Those two work very closely together, so probably not as nightmarish as it may appear to an observer. But, the two of them are most certainly warriors.
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by jakebsky 3y ago
You're right, as usual. AppView is on a Postgres cluster with read replicas doing timeline generation (and other things) on-demand. We're in the process of moving it toward a beefy ScyllaDB cluster designed around a fanout-on-writ
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by jakebsky 3y ago
It is, but not as a "growth hack" or anything. It's just a way of limiting growth while the system is scaled (in terms of the backend and abuse prevention). There's a dedicated waitlist for developers that will get you a
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by jakebsky 3y ago
That's right. This is the same code Bluesky is running on our new PDS hosts. It's all open source. The main motivation in moving from a big central Postgres cluster to single tenant SQLite databases is to make hosting users much m
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by jakebsky 3y ago
Bluesky Social, PBC | Backend Developer | Full-time | Remote (US timezone) + 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 ecosyst
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by jakebsky 3y ago
I'm one of the engineers at Bluesky that handles incoming security reports. We of course do take reported security issues very seriously. We have worked positively with a number of researchers. The initial email in this case was receiv
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Posting via the Bluesky API(atproto.com)
3 points by jakebsky 3y ago|0 comments
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Open Bluesky invites for developers interested in atproto(atproto.com)
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Bluesky Developer Invites(docs.google.com)
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by jakebsky 3y ago
Bluesky Social PBC | TypeScript Developer | Remote US | Full Time Bluesky’s mission is to transition the social web from platforms to protocols. As a TypeScript dev, you’ll be writing protocol and backend code that will be a critical part o