Starting from scale in the design of the AT Protocol
Bluesky was founded in 2022 to produce a protocol which Twitter could adopt. The product goals changed, but the requirements didn't.
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The politics of purely client-side apps
There's a surprisingly nuanced discussion in development about the political economy of clients and servers in the Atmosphere
100% cooked
Some reflections on the product design discussions from the last weekend
Aggregate effects of processing load in a distributed physics simulation
Describing general relativity as a quirk of distributed computation is satisfying to me as a distributed systems engineer.
Social platforms are not neutral
So they need to be interchangeable
Sometimes I think we collectively underscope the impact of bots on society
A couple of examples that have been living rent free in my head lately
Cool
I'm into it
Three schemes for shared-private storage
Continuing from my previous leaflet on private data , I want to explore three broad schemes for shared-private storage that I’ve seen emerge in various proposals. As a reminder, the shared-private storage is for data which is multi-user but non-public. Some common use-cases include posts, user lists, videos, documents, DMs, and basically any other kind of artefact or experience in social or…
Private data: developing a rubric for success
What will an effective solution look like?
Update on Protocol Moderation
Where account takedowns happen is important
We probably need to rename the AppView
It should be called an API server, App server, or backend.
Do I have a problem, or do I have ants in the pants
It actually calms me down