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Working on an experiment playing in the space left behind if browsers are gone and only web pages remain. Instead of tabs... it installs a new local native app for each URL leaving behind a growing pile of 228mb Electron apps that each load a single web page.

this is pretty neat: because atproto commits are limited to create/update/delete operations, relays can publish incremental #commit updates that contain batches of ops and they can be verified relative to the previous MST state if nodes related to rebalancing are included

taking a break from new and horrifying hellsite, great to be back here on classic hellsite

alternatively described as protocol level interoperability 🙂‍↕️

i want to change my profile picture for consistency reasons but can’t because this is the one with the background that’s, well, you know

new design space unlocked

calques are in right now

the moderation list management interface is so much better than the user list management interface 🤔

Pics from Asia: solarpunk cafe, downtown Kowloon, Kuromi cafe in HK, Chao Phraya River in Bangkok

not many people are thinking about redesigning the social software stack around layers of progressive disclosure but it’s probably inevitable given the trend of automation on one side, and protocols on the other

hello bluesky assistant. please give me an instant follow to anyone who tweets the word "wasian" on here

is there an app for viewing the timeline as someone else on here?

i can’t believe a chinese information warfare lab invented cancellation during gain of function experiments in the 2010s, and now it’ll just be with us for the rest of humanity

How Decentralized Is Bluesky Really? dustycloud.org/blog/how-dec... A technical deep-dive, since people have been asking me for my thoughts. I'll expand a bit on some of the key points here in a thread. 🧵

devs! want to build something on #atproto but not sure where to start? check out this "Call for Projects" with a bunch of ideas, ranging from protocol frameworks, to entire apps, to bots

network not actually decentralized? christian rap energy? big accounts coming along and getting flamed by the local clout? love that we're rerunning the farcaster culture wars on here at scale

very excited to share two new blog posts on peer-to-peer database primitives! the first is a high-level introduction to "causal logs" - how and why replicating operation-based CRDTs means storing them in a partially-ordered dependency graph.

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #1,134!