Rob Ricci

Yep, I'll keep using Bluesky so long as I don't have do age verification crap (alternative frontend is OK), but if it becomes mandatory, I'm out. I might keep studying it and building tools, but won't keep posting here.

I got nervous over on the fedi when our local newspaper followed me.

I had been posting about trying to get into secret tunnels.

Congrats! I'm glad to see you getting more financial support to work on this ecosystem!

Heeey, look, it's me!

I'm super hyped to announce that @bsky.app have given me a grant to work on the standards for the Federated Credential Management API (or FedCM) to make them really work for all decentralized web applications.

GitHub - blacksky-algorithms/atproto: Blacksky fork of bluesky-social/atproto with AppView performance optimizations, caching, and community features Blacksky fork of bluesky-social/atproto with AppView performance optimizations, caching, and community features - blacksky-algorithms/atproto

Blacksky's app view source code has been released publicly here.

I'm curious, had you viewed anything about this account before it blocked you? My first guess would be buggy cache invalidation in the app

*very birds aren't real voice*: Blocks aren't real

I don't think I'd call it "unintentional" - it's akin to weapons-makers selling to both sides.

Want a more complete list?

I'm not planning to post the actual DIDs, I don't want to bother random people

Uh oh they have violated the ToS of your feed generator, better send them an angry email

A screenshot of arewedecentralizedyet.online showing that the Atmosphere is currently decentralizing - PDSes such as Blacksky and Eurosky are cumulatively adding users faster than Bluesky's PDSes.

Wait‽ How can *.host.bsky.network (Bluesky PDSes) decentralize the atmosphere? Especially while adding active users?

It's counterintuitive, but real: the metrics I use take "market share" into account, and right now, Bluesky PDSes are not adding active users fast enough to maintain market share.

are you for real?

they literally did a 'we have always been at ware with eastasia'

(this seems to be 'users online right now', but still, that is ... not very much)

I made an account to see what it was about, the relays seem to have a few hundred users connected.

Not a few hundred thousand, a few hundred.

The 7 letter words I found in did:plc identifiers are

arabian
arrived
canucks
farrell
fearful
forests
grooves
indexed
inflict
killing
mankind
marxist
realist
salazar
startup
suspect
wedding
weighed

The longest one ... sure looks like the owner generated a 'vanity did:plc' on purpose. 🤯 It's 8 letters long, is a name, and starts the did:plc string

The most common 5-letter English word embedded in in-use did:plcs is 'wield', which exists in 15 dids. I'm sure you wanted to know that.

Searching for English words in accounts' DIDs because why not

He does this over in the fedi too, but there he uses CWs to make it a little less obnoxious

(last several years) it should be split because it helps them but also their competitors.

Probably depends on which version of Google they think they are this week. If they are the ancient "organize the world's information" Google (long dead), then yeah. If they are the data-monopolist Google (most of their history), atproto should scare them. If they are the "AI all the things Google"

Thread showing a root post and two replies

Notification of a reply

Same thread, but this time with three replies

Case in point, in one of these I clicked on the root post, and in the other, I clicked on Dan's reply from my notifications

Something I'm very curious about here: it's common that I click on a thread, and see partial replies - missing replies that I know are there because I got notified about them, or because I saw them in my feed and clicked the "full thread" button. What's up with this? Is it on purpose?

Yeah that does seem likely. One sign of success in the future probably needs to be that someone with approval authority at Google sees atproto and says "aw hell no" when an engineer tries to do this again

Need to invent a coffee that comes before coffee

Great!

cool let's see if mine survives

I'm sure they, and all the other AI companies, already are. (hi claude)

Yeah and look, if I were AtmosphereConf, I would take the money too. But if atproto is doing things right, Google ought to be scared of it