edavis

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by edavis 1y ago
An important note here is the $30/mo is for the relay which is _not_ something the average user will ever need to run Instead, you're looking for hosting a PDS which you absolutely can do for $10/mo (or less) I run a PDS on a
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by edavis 1y ago
Which components are you referring to?
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"Night of the Living Dead" accidentally became public domain (2019)(screenrant.com)
76 points by edavis 1y ago|68 comments
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The Technological Poison Pill: How ATProtocol Encourages Competition(techdirt.com)
6 points by edavis 2y ago|0 comments
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by edavis 2y ago
this post by the team has some: https://bsky.social/about/blog/11-29-2024-engagement
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by edavis 2y ago
For anybody else coming across this, a reply was made here: https://whtwnd.com/bnewbold.net/3lbvbtqrg5t2t Bit of a side note for my fellow protocol enjoyers: this site is WhiteWind which is another app on the atproto n
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by edavis 2y ago
I'm sorry, but there's just a qualitative difference between a company setting up some API endpoints and what Bluesky PBC is doing with building atproto, releasing PDS software, encouraging self-hosters and treating them as first
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by edavis 2y ago
If this sort of thing interests you, check out atfile: https://github.com/electricduck/atfile
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The Origins of DS_store (2006)(arno.org)
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by edavis 3y ago
https://plc.directory can be mirrored and this new mirror would become the authority if something like this happened
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by edavis 3y ago
Users choose which 3p labelers they subscribe to. If a labeler service starts abusing their position, users can drop it. https://github.com/bluesky-social/proposals/tree/main/0002-l... is a deep-dive on
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by edavis 3y ago
For the "I want to use different emails for different repos" issue, I've seen the `includeIf` technique but it felt fiddly. What I've done is set `user.useConfigOnly = true` and commented out `user.email` in ~/.gitc
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by edavis 3y ago
Love it. A "choose your own adventure" depending on how much you distrust Bluesky PBC :) My only feedback would be: I'd love to read a real deep dive on just bringing in your own did:web and using a custom PDS. The DIY AppVie
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by edavis 3y ago
I don't think they should be intimidated, I'm just saying they are : https://erinkissane.com/mastodon-is-easy-and-fun-except-when... But I wouldn't say it's a fully inconsequential choice, either. You
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by edavis 3y ago
I don't know... the whole Threads + ActivityPub thing just seems like Meta trying to keep the regulators at bay rather than them actually embracing the ethos of becoming a major federated social media player. So launch in July 2023, ha
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by edavis 3y ago
It wasn't hard for me because I grokked what I was doing, but for a lot of people they've never had to make a decision like that before. Especially so early in an onboarding process. And they get caught up trying to decide if they
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by edavis 3y ago
Hugo is getting a lot of love in here (with good reason). If you do end up trying Hugo and feel it's like 90% what you want but never quite perfect, do check out Zola ( https://www.getzola.org/ ). It feels the most like
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by edavis 3y ago
whyrusleeping answered this ably. They are part of the Bluesky team but aren't hiding the ball. You can't do this today on the main network, no. Apparently they'll be "rolling out an experimental early version of federat
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by edavis 3y ago
I realize this may already be on the roadmap for after open federation, but I would love some sort of "bluesky for the truly paranoid (affectionate)" guide that explained soup to nuts how to participate in the network by running y
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by edavis 3y ago
> is there anything particularly compelling about it compared to a centralized platform? As a user? I'd say custom feeds. You can create alternative feeds using whatever algorithm you want that users can subscribe to in a way that i
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by edavis 3y ago
I have been poking around bluesky and atproto as nothing more than an interested developer since around May 2023. I certainly don't know everything, but I've exercised most aspects of the protocol by now (firehose, custom feeds, s
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by edavis 3y ago
> (2) why would I want to leave if it's so great? A lot of people felt burned by the changes at Twitter over the past 14 months or so. They made meaningful connections on there and with new ownership came changes that altered the c
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by edavis 3y ago
I think the "default feed" you're seeing is the "Discover" custom feed that shows up if you haven't followed anybody. Once you do that, your "default feed" is what your follows have posted in reverse
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RFC 6919 – Further Key Words for Use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels(datatracker.ietf.org)
2 points by edavis 3y ago|0 comments
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by edavis 3y ago
FWIW, this side of Bluesky definitely exists but if you're diligent about curating your follows and avoiding certain custom feeds this type of content is pretty easy to avoid. There is no blackbox algorithm blasting rage bait onto your
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by edavis 3y ago
During the early days of what would become Bluesky, they first reviewed the available options for decentralized public communications and nothing out there checked all the boxes. So they moved forward building something completely new that
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by edavis 3y ago
Bluesky seems to be the "backup" for a lot of Twitter users. When Twitter had their outage a day or two ago the network activity spiked to some of the highest levels seen since like October.
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by edavis 3y ago
> You still can't send videos and gifs. That's just, so basic for a social network. Yeah, I'd agree if you're looking for a more polished social media client then Twitter, Threads, and even some Mastodon clients will
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by edavis 3y ago
Most of the "GIFs" you encounter on social media these days are actually autoplay videos without sound. So it's not that crazy. I think they're waiting until they have a robust solution figured out for video support befo
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by edavis 3y ago
I played a small role in the RSS part of this release, nudging them to go with title-less items in the feed. If anybody wants a Bluesky invite code, I have a handful available. DM me at @edavis@hachyderm.io or at https://t.me&#x2

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