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New comment by iameli in "Ask HN: Why isn't Google indexing information about the AT Protocol?"

iameli — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 01:59:10 +0000

I'm now getting _this HN article_ as the top Google result for "list of public atproto relays". Weird.

Yes, I "used an incognito window". Yes, I checked on multiple devices. Yes, Google is personalized. Maybe if you search "list of public atproto relays" from East Timor you get lists of public atproto relays. But you sure don't from Seattle right now.

New comment by iameli in "Ask HN: Why isn't Google indexing information about the AT Protocol?"

iameli — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 22:31:46 +0000

Google has indexed both of them, actually, you can search successfully for those two domains directly. They just don't come up when you search for "list of public atproto relays". Any other theories?

New comment by iameli in "Ask HN: Why isn't Google indexing information about the AT Protocol?"

iameli — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 19:05:36 +0000

In the AI overview yeah, but do you see the sites below? I wonder if it's being tuned to prefer generating its own "list of X" implementations and downranking other peoples' lists.

New comment by iameli in "Ask HN: Why isn't Google indexing information about the AT Protocol?"

iameli — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 18:39:44 +0000

Could you link it? Curious to see how buried it is for me. Personalization is one thing but on my results I'm getting Tor relays, Nostr relays, IPFS relays, and Fediverse relays and I haven't yet seen a list of atproto relays. I'm on like page 6 now.

New comment by iameli in "Ask HN: Why isn't Google indexing information about the AT Protocol?"

iameli — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 18:26:42 +0000

Are any of those results a list of public atproto relays?

Ask HN: Why isn't Google indexing information about the AT Protocol?

iameli — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 17:44:40 +0000

I've been observing this for a while, where very basic queries about atproto stuff doesn't show up. But yesterday I found a query that makes it VERY obvious: "list of public atproto relays". Here's DuckDuckGo:

1. https://firehose.directory

2. https://atproto.at/relays

3. https://atproto.wiki/en/wiki/reference/core-architecture/relay

4. https://pulsar.feeds.blue

5. https://leaflet.pub/12022731-ae4f-4a13-9f7a-5738b7a83c2e

Of those results, Google only has 3, the only one on the list that... doesn't have a list of public atproto relays. None of the other sites are present anywhere. Trying not to assume malice instead of incompetence here, but it's really ironic that one of the ecosystems with the strongest ties to the open web, with users creating dozens of new websites every week, isn't getting indexed.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48874046

Points: 50

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New comment by iameli in "There are no instances in ATProto"

iameli — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 20:02:58 +0000

Daniel Holmgren discusses this in his really good atproto ethos talk — the P2P networks are cool but incapable of delivering on what users expect from modern social media https://youtu.be/1A-0k58TfPo?si=f_d4uoz_I8kMoKDw

New comment by iameli in "There are no instances in ATProto"

iameli — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 17:37:12 +0000

There are many relays, here's a list of 13 but it's not comprehensive: https://tangled.org/firehose.club/community-firehose-list/bl...

Bluesky's moderation actions are generally implemented as moderation labels which take effect at the AppView level. Sometimes they'll take down someone's PDS or censor from their relays, but I don't believe third-party relays are aware of those relay takedowns at all.

New comment by iameli in "There are no instances in ATProto"

iameli — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 17:28:36 +0000

There are multiple Bluesky AppViews, Blacksky has a totally independent one. And there are multiple relays, each capable of serving a firehose.

New comment by iameli in "Show HN: We built a terminal-only Bluesky / AT Proto client written in Fortran"

iameli — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 23:16:33 +0000

Yep lots! Mine is a livestreaming service: https://stream.place

Also a great blogging platform: https://leaflet.pub

Here's a goal tracker: https://goals.garden

This one just dropped recently; it's 44 different atproto-related apps with a cyberpunk theme: https://www.aetheros.computer/

Lots others mentioned here: https://blueskydirectory.com/

New comment by iameli in "A Social Filesystem"

iameli — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 19:31:43 +0000

what if I want to publish something publicly on the internet though

New comment by iameli in "Open Social"

iameli — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 19:28:15 +0000

Bluesky is incredibly just "sign up with a thing." Except even easier, because you don't have to pick an instance first.

New comment by iameli in "GNU Artanis – A fast web application framework for Scheme"

iameli — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 21:37:53 +0000

Is this named after the Protoss Executor Artanis?

How Streamplace Works: No Microservices

iameli — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 23:10:34 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.stream.place/3lvyv4tkh622f

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44851228

Points: 2

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New comment by iameli in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2025)"

iameli — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 17:58:44 +0000

Streamplace | Decentralized Video Protocol Engineer | US | Full-Time | REMOTE (Anywhere)

Streamplace is building open-source live video for Bluesky's AT Protocol as part of our mission to solve video for everybody forever. We've recently raised ~$500,000 from the Livepeer Treasury and are building our founding team.

We're in need of someone with a background in decentralized protocols and video technology. You'd be responsible for building and documenting the Streamplace segmentation and replication protocol, building out our GStreamer-based multiplatform node software, and facilitating our rollout to global low-latency platform. Our stack is primarily in Go and React Native.

More information at https://jobs.stream.place and apply with an email to jobs@stream.place.

New comment by iameli in "When imperfect systems are good: Bluesky's lossy timelines"

iameli — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 18:26:17 +0000

I asked this and got

> We did a backend rewrite from postgres to scylla and it has a bunch of deployment specific stuff, but is functionally identical to the open source postgres version. Its not really a "v2" in terms of new features, we just made it make use of our hardware really well[1]

[1]: https://bsky.app/profile/iame.li/post/3l7e3jfqit22s

New comment by iameli in "Dragonsweeper — A minesweeper game that requires observation"

iameli — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 05:36:37 +0000

This is really fun.

New comment by iameli in "I Met Paul Graham Once"

iameli — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 05:27:35 +0000

What social justice objective is being prioritized? By whom? Go watch the actual video — it's a flat joke about her not knowing what March Madness is but drinking Bud Lights anyway. It's completely unremarkable influencer #spon content. Her being trans isn't even mentioned.

New comment by iameli in "Docker Desktop Broken on Mac OS Update for over a Week"

iameli — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 04:17:39 +0000

Been using and happy with Podman Desktop for a while now on Mac

New comment by iameli in "FFmpeg by Example"

iameli — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 02:04:11 +0000

"Writing working commands first try for every single ffmpeg feature that exists" is the highest bar I've ever heard of, I love it. I'm gonna start listing it as a requirement on job postings. Like an ffmpeg speedrun.