Andrey Petrov
shazow.net
Andrey Petrov
@shazow.net
A doodler and computerer. I like permissive/permissionless open source, smart contracts, p2p systems, room-scale VR, and NixOS. 🇨🇦

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https://shazow.net
https://github.com/shazow
https://farcaster.id/shazow.eth
but stellz, what what happens if someone just right-click saves it??
November 2, 2025 at 4:21 PM
sweet! let me know if it's missing anything for you.

i got tired of using both nmtui+impala to do different things, hope this will be the final wifi tui we need 😅
November 1, 2025 at 7:12 PM
...It's hard for me to imagine that we somehow manage to keep all of that the same by virtue of just tweaking some laws around and litigating more aggressively.

It may delay the pain of change for a while, but probably not very long.

IMO the 100+ year vision is hopeful, not worse than yesterday.
November 1, 2025 at 3:50 PM
I often try to imagine what society looks like in 100+ years when we take all these things for granted: I imagine that our culture around media and evidence is very different, our systems of trust are different, our communities are different and hopefully stronger/tighter.

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November 1, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Ah yes, same.

Feels like IP is less relevant than ever, more obviously vulnerable to toxic capture than ever, and yet...
November 1, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Do you feel turned the same way?
November 1, 2025 at 2:24 PM
I'm genuinely confused about this position. Bluesky is designed to allow moderation at many layers (moderation lists, labels, etc), which people who disagree with can easily opt out of... why keep using the most extreme layer that people can't easily opt out of?
September 21, 2025 at 6:33 PM
There's an analogy to the old joke "if you owe $100m, then it's the bank's problem"

If some of a state fiat is minted as an onchain stablecoin, it's the chain's problem. If too much of a state's fiat supply moves onchain, then it's the state's problem.

(Democratic balance is somewhere in between.)
September 21, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Would it be possible to get more details about what is it about Switzerland and a Swiss Association that actually makes it a credibly neutral and stable global home? Curious which laws or failure modes this is being optimized for and what the alternate considerations may have been.
September 19, 2025 at 7:17 PM
True, couldn't strictly do it as an FID but could do it as an ENS (with an offchain CCIP subdomain setup, similar to being uhder bsky).
September 17, 2025 at 12:55 PM
If Farcaster/MM embraces a spec designed by a third party, I'll be very impressed.
September 17, 2025 at 3:19 AM
I think the question is whether Bluesky can stop you from moving out or not (rather than what is today's policy, because that can change tomorrow).

At least that's the angle I take in my post: shazow.net/posts/open-s...
How can open social protocols fail us in 2025
Let’s compare the possible failure modes of various open social protocols: ActivityPub/Mastodon ATProto/Bluesky Farcaster/Warpcast Some scenarios I’d like to consider: Can my identity be taken away...
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September 17, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Yup, centralized SaaS always has implicit hidden cost that always comes calling years later through extraction. May as well pay the 5 cents today instead of lose everything in 10 years.
September 17, 2025 at 2:47 AM
I imagine you'd be able to get a replica of your content (via relays etc), but I don't think you'd be able to migrate your signer to another PDS if Bluesky doesn't want you to (since they custody the signer key by default)? So your identity could be trapped, would need to start from scratch.
September 17, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Not just changing rotating keys, but also self-custodying signers (in modern secure and recoverable ways, probably smart wallets).

Apps can sponsor gas if they want, it's not very expensive on L2s. Can also do counterfactual deployments (no gas until a change is needed).
September 17, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Dan says that "The Data" didn't support them, it wasn't driving growth, etc etc.
September 17, 2025 at 2:27 AM