Profile avatar
bnewbold.social.coop.ap.brid.gy
dweb, cycling, free software, snow, wiki, hardware, big cities, symbolic systems. I love speculating about found objects. Working at https://blueskyweb.xyz/ on […] [bridged from https://social.coop/@bnewbold on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
58 posts 80 followers 6 following
Regular Contributor
Active Commenter
Posts 16 Comments 34

emacstodon

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

I love my stem cap

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

wrote up a reply to @cwebber's "How decentralized is Bluesky really" blog post: https://whtwnd.com/bnewbold.net/3lbvbtqrg5t2t

submitted 94 days ago • 6 comments

also some july hiking. cascades winter snow is coming on hard!

submitted 94 days ago • 1 comment

I forgot to larch-post over here, didn't I

submitted 94 days ago • 0 comments

good job everybody

submitted 95 days ago • 0 comments

Bluesky had some infrastructure problems last week which impacted @bsky.brid.gy (along with Bluesky's own PDS instances), but it should be functioning smoothly for new content now. Here is a post showing atmosphere-to-fediverse […]

submitted 95 days ago • 0 comments

Late time of year for such a nice flower

submitted 97 days ago • 266 comments

can somebody remind me what the Threads ActivityPub milestone is that will roll out in December? bi-directional posting?

submitted 106 days ago • 2 comments

after the 2016 Trump election, there was a big movement to preserve government data and websites (EDGI: https://envirodatagov.org/). I wasn't around for that, but I think there was a missed connection between web archive world and volunteer/movement world. if similar efforts spring up in […]

submitted 113 days ago • 0 comments

before I worked at Bluesky, I worked with scholarly metadata and infrastructure. that field has had it's chain jerked around a lot w/r/t funding and sustainability of infra: maintenance, enclosure, M&A / consolidation, enshittification, grants, collective action, etc. not dissimilar to web!

submitted 113 days ago • 7 comments

I think what many folks really want from "federation" is a situation where no one party has more than 40% (or 10%, or whatever) of the network. That is a powerful and special property! Fediverse has it today, and most networks don't. It is different from adversarial interop though. There are […]

submitted 118 days ago • 2 comments

bluesky got more funding, and is working on several sustainable revenue models: subscriptions, domain registration, and payments. work continues on atproto: tooling for independent Lexicon development; more docs/specs and testing for interop; more complete and documented SDKs […]

submitted 127 days ago • 2 comments

anybody know more about this work? can't find any social contacts etc from the website. https://arcanican.is/excerpts/did-method-fedi/ https://arcanican.is/primer/ap-decentralization.php very atproto and did:plc brained!

submitted 142 days ago • 1 comment

wrote up a proposal for exposing "moderation history" back to individual accounts as part of Ozone, an atproto moderation system. I think that the Mastodon reporting system already has similar functionality, but not sure about other ActivityPub project. Curious for feedback! […]

submitted 149 days ago • 0 comments

We got a blog post out summarizing our launch of OAuth for AT Protocol, and what work remains. This has been a huge project, led by Matthieu, with input from a bunch of standards folks and devs. This tries to solve the same basic challenge that ActivityPub has, and builds on work by […]

submitted 156 days ago • 1 comment