Hacker News: pfraze

New comment by pfraze in "Gleam Is Now on Tangled"

pfraze — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 19:31:28 +0000

This comment seems to lack nuance

New comment by pfraze in "Bluesky Trademarks ATProto"

pfraze — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 03:29:30 +0000

> Bluesky recently acquired the rights to the trademark for “ATPROTOCOL” and its variants—including “AT Protocol” and “atproto”—from another company that was threatening to take legal action preventing the company and others from using the term. Now that Bluesky owns it, the atproto community’s continued use of the mark can be protected.

The policy around usage is shared in the rest of the post but the goal is to make this very simple for everyone

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

pfraze — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 19:19:54 +0000

I’d also call out that activitypub has the same threat model in the form of ICANN, as it’s also heavily dependent on DNS for identity. I believe these are reasonable trades to make; realistically the alternative is to use a blockchain, which few people are keen to do.

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

pfraze — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 19:17:29 +0000

It doesn’t fully resolve your concerns, but I do want to highlight that atproto now has an IETF working group to home its spec development

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

pfraze — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 19:12:54 +0000

Honestly that’s just as much because atproto is a raw data protocol. Putting an http frontend on an atproto account is something we encourage and a lot of folks do. I do that on pfrazee.com for instance, and my leaflet blogposts (which are canonically on atproto) render on my blog.

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

pfraze — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 19:05:50 +0000

Relays are actually quite cheap now! They used to be a bit more expensive when they archived all the traffic, but in sync 1.1 that was dropped and they can be run on $20/mo VMs pretty trivially now

New comment by pfraze in "W Social, public institutions and the theater of European digital sovereignty"

pfraze — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 01:02:54 +0000

Bluesky is the opposite of locked down

New comment by pfraze in "W Social, public institutions and the theater of European digital sovereignty"

pfraze — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 16:57:09 +0000

Wcyd? It was the name that Dorsey chose before the PBC was even formed. It's from the technical term of art, like greenfield.

New comment by pfraze in "W Social, public institutions and the theater of European digital sovereignty"

pfraze — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 14:17:08 +0000

Fyi it’s actually called bluesky, not bluewhatever

New comment by pfraze in "The (real) dead economy theory"

pfraze — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:30:35 +0000

“Losing” is a loaded word choice. If I buy something I’m really happy to have, I probably don’t describe it as losing the money.

Obviously the investment expense has been extremely high, which is what the replies are quibbling about.

New comment by pfraze in "Age verification for social media, the beginning of the end for a free internet?"

pfraze — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 21:29:16 +0000

OS-level is so much better than app-level. App-level means redoing the work for each app and increasing the odds of issues.

New comment by pfraze in "At Protocol for Agents"

pfraze — Mon, 18 May 2026 19:01:03 +0000

No disagreement there. If you want to keep updated on the permissioned data protocol you can follow daniel's leaflets https://dholms.leaflet.pub/ (https://dholms.leaflet.pub/rss)

The public side is extremely important for agents though. Agents need up to date public information to do their job. Every other service is going closed. Public information and activity should be a commons.

New comment by pfraze in "We need a federation of forges"

pfraze — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 14:50:32 +0000

Yeah I’ve met the Radicle people a couple times. I’ve never given it a thorough review but, for their goals, their designs have always seemed strong, and they’re pleasant people to chat with.

The main difference was atproto wanted to tackle scale, so we went with a servers & aggregation model. Radicle is going for device-to-device networking as a primary goal.

New comment by pfraze in "We need a federation of forges"

pfraze — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 14:45:47 +0000

The most valuable thing Tangled will ever do is establish the protocol of Tangled. Once that’s done, it lives as long as people are willing to run it.

New comment by pfraze in "We need a federation of forges"

pfraze — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 14:36:52 +0000

Yeah the problems they seemed to have were over collaborative data structures with permissions. You’re right about how atproto solves that, which means you’re using CRDTs if you need to collaborate. If that’s a fit mismatch, I’d tell people to just appoint api servers which wrap a repo and provide the needed semantics.

New comment by pfraze in "Top Programmers Return to Hand-Coding Amid AI Tool Doubts"

pfraze — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 14:07:04 +0000

Absolutely none of this matches my experience.

New comment by pfraze in "Bluesky April 2026 Outage Post-Mortem"

pfraze — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 22:06:22 +0000

Technically you can still view the posts directly from the PDS. It’s just uninteresting compared to web pages

New comment by pfraze in "Bluesky April 2026 Outage Post-Mortem"

pfraze — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 18:42:47 +0000

This writeup is useful for backend engineers: https://atproto.com/articles/atproto-for-distsys-engineers

The simple answer is that atproto works like the web & search engines, where the apps aggregate from the distributed accounts. So the proper analogy here would be like yahoo going down in 1999.

New comment by pfraze in "Bluesky April 2026 Outage Post-Mortem"

pfraze — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 18:02:53 +0000

All support to other decentralizers but nothing never goes down.

New comment by pfraze in "About the Atmosphere"

pfraze — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 00:45:50 +0000

Just want to add that the AT Protocol IETF working group has been formed, and the PLC directory independent organization and board has officially been established. I’m at the closing talk for this years Atmosphere Conference as I write this and it’s really an incredible community of devs.