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Tablinum – Local-first database for the browser(tablinum.dev)
1 points by kevinak 22d ago|0 comments
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by kevinak 3mo ago
Very cool! I like it! What about using Nostr relays to also back up your data passwords? I built a library called Tablinum around this idea. Local first but backed up to Nostr relays using NIP-59 gift wrapped events. https://tabl
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by kevinak 3mo ago
That's a lot of information about something that does not really matter in practice. It's not until ew get to the very end of your comment that we get to the actually relevant part for the discussion. > So let's talk in pr
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by kevinak 3mo ago
Where are your rotation and signing keys stored? Who can access them? Talking here about the majority case.
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by kevinak 3mo ago
Nope. When I’m talking about identity I’m speaking strictly of the keys that sign your messages and the pub key derived from it. In every other cryptographic system that is your identity. It is absolutely correct that the PDS has complete c
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by kevinak 3mo ago
That’s a very narrow definition of decentralisation. In any case - both atproto and fediverse are massively centralised compared to something like Nostr, and it’s not even close. The fact that the PDS in practice owns your identity in the v
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by kevinak 3mo ago
You won’t have decentralisation on Atproto because the protocol itself incentivises centralisation.
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by kevinak 3mo ago
The end of the article explains why this isn’t necessarily better than a centralised service. Yes - you can self host but no one (yes, there a few exceptions) does in practice. Your PDS host can pretend to be you on any atproto application.
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by kevinak 3mo ago
The point of the article is that 99.9% of users will not take custodial control of their identity - not that they can’t.
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by kevinak 3mo ago
Yes - the trade off is centralisation.
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by kevinak 3mo ago
Atproto is not decentralised, it’s faux decentralised. You can technically be sovereign, but incentives and the way things have been done results in massive centralisation - 99.9% of users are on a Bluesky PDS and have not registered a high
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by kevinak 3mo ago
It’s great that tings like this exist but as long as this is how identities work on ATProto it’s unfortunately going to be a niche thing.
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by kevinak 3mo ago
You can just read the documentation: https://atproto.com/guides/overview#account-portability “The signing key is entrusted to the PDS so that it can manage the user's data, but rotation keys can be controlled by t
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by kevinak 3mo ago
Yes you can but the vast majority don’t, and that is what matters. When Bluesky goes rogue because of profitability issues or VC pressure, the vast vast majority of users lose their identities on the wider network. Users will choose the pat
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by kevinak 3mo ago
Correct, but it’s not decentralized in any meaningful way, which is what a lot of ATProto proponents want you to believe. No one (not literally of course) self hosts their PDS. Like 99.9%, if not more, are using the Bluesky PDSes.
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Who owns your ATProto identity?(kevinak.se)
171 points by kevinak 3mo ago|152 comments
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by kevinak 5mo ago
Looking at the studies on the site I’m only seeing comparisons vs placebo and activated charcoal - why not compare to non modified regular beta glucan that is in most oats?
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by kevinak 6mo ago
Not parent but I wrote an article about how PDSs (the thing that hosts your data) control your signing and rotation keys. It's technically possible to self-host but as always, the default becomes the norm. 99.999% of users on ATProto h
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by kevinak 6mo ago
There is - https://flotilla.social/
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by kevinak 6mo ago
Yes. Here are some specifications that describe it: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/17.md and https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/59.
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by kevinak 6mo ago
So if a user is banned from their PDS and they haven't backed up their keys, the community is screwed? That seems like a pretty big flaw.
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by kevinak 6mo ago
Yep! People in the Bitcoin space have been screaming at the top of their lungs about this for decades at this point, but it's hard to work against the marketing machine that comes from these ICOs.
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Grasp Protocol: A simple protocol for code collaboration(gitgrasp.com)
1 points by kevinak 6mo ago|0 comments
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Living human brain cells play DOOM on a CL1 [video](youtube.com)
257 points by kevinak 6mo ago|275 comments
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by kevinak 7mo ago
On the other hand, shining a light on things that are not what they seem is very good, which is what I tried to do.
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by kevinak 7mo ago
I did, we just have different views of what decentralized means.
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by kevinak 7mo ago
Is there anything wrong with this article? I think it would be better if you actually engaged with the article and articulated any criticism you have with it instead of just writing things off because I like other solutions to decentralized
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Who Owns Your ATProto Identity? Hint: It's Probably Not You(kevinak.se)
5 points by kevinak 7mo ago|8 comments
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by kevinak 7mo ago
Yep! This pretty much!
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by kevinak 7mo ago
One way to combat this would be to force users to stake something. Pay 10 bucks to your account and if you misbehave by spamming or posting only AI slop, you lose it. Brings with it other problems, of course.

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