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by pfraze 2y ago
Hey Bernard. Just wanted to say, this is pretty cool. Wishing you success.
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by pfraze 2y ago
Web Components have some nice features, some bad features, and no killer feature. Developers have mostly chosen to ignore them for other approaches (React, Vue) where there are better ergonomics and stronger network effects.
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by pfraze 2y ago
> Let me ask you this, is it possible for me to connect to a PDS directly, right now, via the bluesky app? Well, yes, that's what you do when you log in. If you open devtools you'll see that the app is communicating with your P
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by pfraze 2y ago
> That is good, but it's still a centralized source of truth. It's not. It's a trustless aggregator. The PDSes are the sources of truth, and you can crawl them directly. The relay is just an optimization. > Messages are
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by pfraze 2y ago
Old social media never gave full access to the firehose so there’s a pretty big difference. If you want large scale social networks, you need to work with a large scale of data. Since federated open queries aren’t feasible, you need big mac
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by pfraze 2y ago
This is pretty accurate. We have some proposals in development for 2 and 3 but it won't be soon. 1 and 4 are straightforward. The rest take QoL hours. Probably an unnamed 5th bullet point is finding experience novelty which make the ot
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by pfraze 2y ago
It's their Brazil marketing team. Thus the .com.br.
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by pfraze 2y ago
What are you talking about? It’s not difficult to add servers or get the official client to use them.
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by pfraze 2y ago
I didn’t mean to come off as dismissive, really I was trying to voice that part which we’ve both been through, the endless stack of existential concerns that you have to get comfortable with in this job. I’m actually quite acutely concerned
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by pfraze 2y ago
Toss it on the pile
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by pfraze 2y ago
Like every other app we’ll constantly battle with it. It’s the job. And then disagreements about how we handle it will create controversies, and then that’s where the protocol comes in, where other apps show up and provide viewpoint divers
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by pfraze 2y ago
Well, either way it’s useful to be real about the kinds of challenges that come with social media. It’s not hypothetical. And we’re still at a very small scale compared to most networks (9mm users)
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by pfraze 2y ago
Actually we do have a pilot program going for registering domains via account.bsky.app if that gives you some sense of where our head’s at
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by pfraze 2y ago
We’re doing fine so far. It’s a wild time but none of this is unexpected, or caught us unprepared. This is what investment is for, to help us build up the system while work towards revenue
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by pfraze 2y ago
This is the head of T&S sharing about the new challenges that have come with the Brazilian wave. I hope it’s clear that the increased CSAM is not left online; we take this very seriously. This is just what comes with the increased atten
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by pfraze 2y ago
+1 to this, if you’re interested in any of this work then give holepunch a look. It’s the same protocol engineers, same core tech, from the folks who worked on beaker.
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by pfraze 2y ago
Dorsey funded Bluesky and not much else.
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by pfraze 2y ago
Your broader observations match what I generally know, but the moderation system wasn’t created as a reaction to Japan or any other specific set of circumstances we were facing. It was a system we had been developing since before launch and
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by pfraze 2y ago
I have a problem with someone imposing their political opinions on others by buying the means of publishing and communication. You don’t?
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by pfraze 2y ago
As a libertarian, how am I supposed to believe in the authenticity and neutrality of the network that Musk is operating when he openly supports a specific political ideology with his public actions? He shows no dedication to neutrality in h
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by pfraze 2y ago
Feel free to pick up where we left off, but just know that you're in for a lot of pain on key sync, device pairing, unreliable data availability, poor connection establishment latency, high end-user device resource usage, and very smal
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by pfraze 2y ago
The bluesky team worked previously on IPFS and Dat/Hypercore and Secure Scuttlebutt. Whyrusleeping - one of the core authors of IPFS - has been an active technical advisor from the start. ATProto is basically those p2p & content ad
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by pfraze 2y ago
In my previous description, I avoided talking about atproto details for clarity, but this is all part of that (atproto.com). The "kv stores" are what we call data repos[1] and they use sqlite for storage, but can produce individua
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by pfraze 2y ago
Ahhh you know what, I should call it stream processing or something, because we don't store the data entirely as events. We store the data as a mutable K/V which emits an event stream of changes, which can then be ingested into di
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by pfraze 2y ago
Speaking entirely personally as I don't handle those questions at bsky. I couldn't even begin to comment without seeing knowing what the court orders were and what the cases are. Every social company operating internationally runs
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by pfraze 2y ago
(in case I look like a crazy person, hn threads got merged so see my other comment which was a copy & update of this)
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by pfraze 2y ago
Mike Masnick is on our board and wrote some commentary on this: https://www.techdirt.com/2024/08/30/brazil-bans-extwitter-in... I do have to ask where the equivalent free-speech outrage is that Musk is overtl
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by pfraze 2y ago
One of our team (bryan newbold) used to work at the IA and we have a good relationship with them because we used to attend their decentralized web summits/camps. Really wonderful people. We do plan to chat with them about it.
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by pfraze 2y ago
The bad crawl for internet archive is because it's a giant SPA. It's a react native codebase which, while irritating for web users, allows us to target all the platforms without building multiple apps. Kind of a life-saver. Relays
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by pfraze 2y ago
Copying over my latest backend status update; figure folks would find it interesting Servers are holding up so far! Fortunately we were overprovisioned. If we hit 4mm new signups then things should get interesting. We did have some degradat

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