Optimising ATproto applications is complicated (but that's okay)

Bluesky, as a decentralised platform, poses a unique challenge for engineers trying to optimise for latency. Where is the AppView hosted? What about the location of the PDS? What about Eurosky users?

I wanted to dig a little further this weekend into how it all works, and what could be done to improve Navyfragen's speed and reduce geographical latency, for users around the world. Because the…

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Beneath The Enshittification, Something Amazing Is Growing

Last month Terry Godier published a great essay on his website about “the boring internet,” discussing how the internet that many of us grew up with, the wonderful, empowering, exciting internet that moved power to the edges of the network rather than the center, is still there. It’s just hidden beneath enshittified commercial layers put […]

The Open Social Web Needs Section 230 To Survive

If you want to overthrow Big Tech, you’ll need Section 230. The paradigm shift being built with the Open Social Web can put communities back in control of social media infrastructure, and finally end our dependency on enshittified corporate giants. But while these incumbents can overcome multimillion-dollar lawsuits, the small host revolution could be picked off […]

greensky: what does permissioned data feel like?

At @habitat.network, we're working hard to launch something at ATmosphereConf. We're building a platform for user data agency: giving users full and transparent control of where their data flows on the internet. Naturally, building a privacy-first platform, we're thinking about permissioned data.

Currently we're building pear: a permission-enforcing ATProtocol repository, tied to your ATProtocol…

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