I need to start using this more

Yet it’s a behavior that persists across social media anyways, with negative consequences for civil discourse and society. Human nature is a contributing factor, but systems that reward outrage only make the problem worse.

i wrote down the process of resolving an at:// URI step by step. turns out, it's a great way to learn how the AT protocol works!

I think the big chunk missing right now to fully use atproto without bsky is for independent appviews to stop adopting their bans, and to achieve real full independence we need lighter appviews. The relays are kinda optional, by the way

You may want to check this out

blog.muni.town/atproto-isnt...

i really like this post

I was wrong in my read on things; the new relays are pulling the entire network. Definitely a different experiment at that point.

Mea culpa on misrepresenting.

It's not a star topology. Each relay pulls from PDS servers individually, and each relay is pulling the entire network of 35M accounts across 2000+ PDS servers.

If you want to say "the majority of user accounts are on Bluesky hosted PDS" -- correct! But not a star topology.

They denied the appeal in under 20 minutes. Posting public information from the API is considered harassment. And everything you've seen from trolls that has been unaddressed or purposely allowed, is not.

In case they decide to delete the quoted post to try and cover this nastiness up, here it is again.

dawg this company does NOT care about community devs, the "freedom of information" or any of the shit they raised money off of. a permanent ban, with no prior warning, for using the api as unintrusively a way as possible.