Hacker News: tynanpurdy

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.