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by pfraze 3y ago
I'm on the team that implemented this, so I'm happy to answer questions. I'll give a brief technical overview. It's broadly a system for publishing metadata on posts called "Labels". Application clients specify
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by pfraze 3y ago
Nah we need to get those links in there
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by pfraze 3y ago
This is exactly the reason. In my SSB days, we had an extremely high character limit on posts. People became enormously long-winded; someone called it “full contact blog hockey” and that was about right The message chunking is a feature. It
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by pfraze 3y ago
It’s a social communications platform. We should have DMs
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That’s about right. It only gets really daunting if we decide to do e2ee, which we’d really like to do but have to decide if we can afford to spend that kind of time. Might be smarter to just make signal username sharing btwn users easier i
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by pfraze 3y ago
More of an accident. The hashtag emoji is a combination of code points and guess what the first code point is? ‘#’ The handling is a little wonky but if it doesn’t hurt anything we’ll clean it up and keep it
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by pfraze 3y ago
Debated prioritizing them before federation, not debated their existence. They are a must-have for social.
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It's a fair point and we definitely debated it, but it was too important to us that we complete the mission.
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by pfraze 3y ago
PLC uses signed logs similar to certificate transparency. We have a lot of options for where to take it. There may be a distributed/decentralized hosting system if we can settle on a consensus model we're comfortable with. Otherwi
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by pfraze 3y ago
This analysis is incredibly incorrect. Relays are not fixed. There can be as many relays as anybody wants to run. There are backlinks. There are ways to dereference a PDS from a username.
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by pfraze 3y ago
He's on the board but he's never been involved directly
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None of us worked at Twitter actually, but we chatted with a lot of folks who did.
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by pfraze 3y ago
Jack directed Twitter to fund Bluesky when he was CEO of Twitter, but Jay Graber is the CEO of Bluesky and the technology & app was created by Jay and her team (which I'm a part of).
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by pfraze 3y ago
At Martin Kleppman's recommendation, we adopted MSTs for AT Protocol's data repository structures. This isn't my specialty so I wasn't deeply involved in evaluating or implementing them, but my understanding is that the
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by pfraze 3y ago
Connection establishment is only a tiny portion of the blockers that stopped us from using P2P, as I discussed in the post
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We spent a lot of time delaying open release to finish building federation. If that doesn’t signal our commitment to it, I don’t know what will
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by pfraze 3y ago
Relays aren't hard-coded and PDSes are encouraged to connect to as many relays as they want. They are essentially network busses that help reduce the combinatorial explosion of connections between nodes. It is entirely possible for PDS
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by pfraze 3y ago
An additional thought- The decentralization community has never been unified in its views, and a fair number of people have worked on these projects together with different personal motives. What tends to be the common denominator is a conc
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by pfraze 3y ago
I can't speak to Jack's thinking, but none of that tracks with how the team thinks, or is motivated by, or has built. My current work focus is on a moderation system which we've been designing from the start, and which includ
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by pfraze 3y ago
Harder to censor isn't exactly the goal. Harder to capture is. The point is to make social media providers replaceable so that users are able to express a choice. We do this already with the feed algorithms, which are predominantly thi
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by pfraze 3y ago
Sorry, can you explain what unremovable central point of control you're referring to?
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Oh no that's a solid idea. It's just on the TODOs.
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I'm really not sure. I talked a bit at the end of the post about my ambivalence about the term federation for the networking model.
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by pfraze 3y ago
I haven't checked in on them lately but it's by the crew I worked with on Dat and Beaker. I tried the early demo and thought they did a great job with the application, and I know they've continued to make break-throughs on th
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by pfraze 3y ago
Don't look at our search service as deeply correlated to the indexing model. That's not the point of the comparison, and our search service is quite subpar. We've only had time to put an ElasticSearch instance against the dat
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by pfraze 3y ago
I'm newly in the PNW after living in Texas for a decade. I was hitting some walls on energy and mood, and a coworker suggested it might be seasonal affective disorder. They suggested I grab some vitamin D, and I grabbed a multivitamin
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by pfraze 3y ago
yeah please do https://github.com/bluesky-social/social-app/
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> 3. I agree that open source doesn't prevent this. You can always erect walls around things. We at least try to poison pill it enough that if the company tried to, people would exit with the data first. Which is why internally we d
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by pfraze 3y ago
If we had ditched invites we never would've been able to ship the open network / relay system. As it stands we're on track for open hosting in Q1¹. Same story with features. We didn't deprioritize the protocol because th
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by pfraze 3y ago
It's a consumer product and it has to compete as one. We've been pretty aware of that from the start. I think you're under-estimating what's happening with 3rd-party feeds. That's a core pattern where independent se

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