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New comment by tynanpurdy in "Select * from Internet.blogposts"

tynanpurdy — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 01:51:33 +0000

Not a would be cool, is cool. At least now that the atproto network has proved it is in fact cool.

New comment by tynanpurdy in "Select * from Internet.blogposts"

tynanpurdy — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 01:07:31 +0000

I will say that I have no relation to bluesky so it's not my tech and I do find it amazing. This post from Dan Abramov might help in clarifying how 'decentralized' it is compared to the threadiverse https://overreacted.io/there-are-no-instances-in-atproto/

New comment by tynanpurdy in "Select * from Internet.blogposts"

tynanpurdy — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:56:54 +0000

> Thinking of RSS and blogrolls as a network feels much more resilient than blueskys Jetstream api endpoint.

Nothing to do with Bluesky services. There are many independent firehoses and relays. Here's a stream of standard.site blog posts coming in over a firehose hosted in Chennai. Every single one. No curator between me and the posts, and no work by me to crawl the whole network for them. https://pdsls.dev/jetstream?instance=wss%3A%2F%2Fchennai.fir...

Edit: ok there is an aggregator, the relay is scraping all of the PDSs out there to build the event stream. Notably this is not possible with RSS, where you need to build a large index with knowledge. PDSs request relays to crawl and that's that.

New comment by tynanpurdy in "Bluesky Trademarks ATProto"

tynanpurdy — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 17:44:22 +0000

and only have one feed? forgive me if I understand incorrectly but I'll take an open market of thousands of feeds and easy tooling to make my own that can pull from the whole network over just one local feed controlled by a server admin

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

tynanpurdy — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 23:25:29 +0000

I’ve gathered a few here! (On an atproto social bookmarking site :) https://semble.so/profile/tynanpurdy.com/collections/3m5epi5...

New comment by tynanpurdy in "Publishing on the ATmosphere"

tynanpurdy — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 17:58:21 +0000

if they decided to, sure they could. they don't want to and never will.

New comment by tynanpurdy in "Publishing on the ATmosphere"

tynanpurdy — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 17:49:41 +0000

in fact more relays just dropped today https://sri.leaflet.pub/3mddrqk5ays27

New comment by tynanpurdy in "Publishing on the ATmosphere"

tynanpurdy — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 17:04:38 +0000

I can set my offprint blog to use my domain, just haven't gotten around to it. The post is made on my atproto account, which is under my domain @tynanpurdy.com. All of the content lives under that account, on which I can attach a new domain handle at a later date if I so choose. Offprint is just one place to view the post. This is more durable than just posting to a website in that the content is indexable, discoverable, and reusable by a growing ecosystem due to the usage of standard broadcast rails and schemas. I get all the benefits of something like substack but without locking myself into that social graph and company.

New comment by tynanpurdy in "Publishing on the ATmosphere"

tynanpurdy — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 16:48:03 +0000

Not at all. There are several active relays, some of which serve unique purposes such as the backlinks relay from microcosm.blue. Anyone can run a relay and it is cheap. The expensive thing is running a fully copy of the network in an appview.

New comment by tynanpurdy in "Open Social"

tynanpurdy — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 00:17:08 +0000

with every additional user, every additional post, the value of the open network only grows, and eventually becomes too big to ignore.

New comment by tynanpurdy in "Open Social"

tynanpurdy — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 19:30:25 +0000

It depends how much you want to replicate. All you really need is the Application Data Server (or AppView) to aggregate the records you are interested in, serve them to your client app, and write them to people’s repos. I’ve been tinkering with the ‘personal website on AT’ idea space for a bit, tons of cool possibilities (and several people already have implemented cool AT integrations in their sites!). Happy to chat ab it.