Drew Kirkman
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Drew Kirkman
@kn9.foo
Professional nerd and unapologetic elder millennial. he/him.

📍Cincitucky

Personal blog: https://kirkmanskorner.com
Broadcasting nerdery over at @broadcastblueprint.com

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I swear by Syncthing these days! making good use of the 8TB RAID1 array in the server at home.
December 13, 2025 at 6:19 PM
In case you’re referring to me, I hope you understand my comment was commiserating, not explaining.
December 8, 2025 at 10:58 PM
It’s literally the lower left quadrant of the Political Compass. Libertarian doesn’t automatically mean “on the right”. People like your uncle have a lot to learn
December 8, 2025 at 10:21 PM
terminally online magae: “the left are a bunch of circus freaks”

terminally online leftists: “is this circus freak enough for you daddy”
December 7, 2025 at 7:18 PM
It’s more about your control over your own data - if you run the server, only you can take down your own account.

As for the setup, it’s literally just a Docker compose file that stands up the PDS itself and a Caddy reverse proxy for HTTPS termination.
December 7, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Good point! The self-contained and open nature of atproto is such a novel thing that the law hasn’t evolved to address. Third-party labelers are opt-in and the labels themselves are not applied to the original post’s repo (if I understand correctly), so the roles according to §230 are very muddled.
December 5, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Interesting to think about... based on the replies to the QT, would it make more sense for atproto moderation labelers to be bundled/tied to the AppView for legal reasons? Given the AppView renders the content for the end user, would a labeler associated with that be considered first-party?
December 5, 2025 at 4:15 PM
At first I was thinking “I wouldn’t go and watch MTV to celebrate anything but you do you man” and then I got it.
December 3, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Vance would have to nominate a new VP subject to approval by both the House and Senate as required by the 25th Amendment. Miller wouldn’t get confirmed even with this Congress
December 3, 2025 at 4:24 AM
...but the damage, division, and polarization will just continue and possibly get worse until you let that shit go and talk to people - in good faith - like they're people first.

I hope many social psychologists earn their Ph.D. researching this. (6/6)
December 2, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Nuance isn't illegal and we're never going to make positive change as a society until we start recognizing that and considering the human individuals with complex thoughts, feelings, and opinions we're interacting with. I know that's not as easy as reducing them to a label... (5/6)
December 2, 2025 at 7:32 PM