Emelia 👸🏻

@getajobmike aah, okay. I was thinking cpu instructions 😅 I've probably been watching too much about low level programming lately

@getajobmike what about just val = val xor 1? (I think there's a way to do that atomically?)

Map of the Nazifascist massacres in Italy, 1943-1945

Each dot in this picture is a Nazi-fascist massacre in Italy that happened between 1943 and 1945.

This is the result of a project that lasted years, summarized by the Atlante cells Stragi Nazifasciste https://www.straginazifasciste.it/

6000 of them, the […]

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Practical Decentralization The point of decentralization is to guarantee the rights of individuals and communities on the Internet. Pulling that off is a balancing act between practicality and ideology.

New blogpost about atproto

It's not federation, it's not a p2p mesh. It's a secret third thing: practical.

www.pfrazee.com/blog/practic...

@hrefna @liaizon ah, but if I define a protocol where nothing is really defined it's cheaper and easier to write the specs because I can just leverage ...

@ricci @laurenshof that is but one implementation of how a jetstream *could* work. Yes, Bluesky's Jetstream is consuming data via a relay, but under the hood it's all sync 1.1 and an application can have enough data to tell the jetstream service "I'm interested in these DIDs" and then an […]

Introducing Jetstream - AT Protocol Introducing Jetstream, an alternative streaming solution with simple JSON encoding and reduced bandwidth.

@ricci @laurenshof please go read about what the Jetstream is:
- https://atproto.com/guides/streaming-data#jetstream
- https://atproto.com/blog/jetstream

It explicitly gives you a subset of data. It would also be possible to write similar interfacing directly with PDSes instead of the relay

Your little music pick for tonight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sv8PZwsRLWs

🎶 You're exasperated
This degeneration
Mental masturbation
Think I'll leave it all behind 🎶

🎶 You don't care about us, oh
You don't care about us, oh 🎶

@edwiebe @K_REY_C okay, apples and banana's.

@K_REY_C like, Blacksky can still ingest the entirety of Bluesky's data. In fact, they accidentally ingested all of the AT Protocol data — https://bsky.app/profile/rude1.blacksky.team/post/3mdxznljbk22z

It was perhaps a bug but hey.

Blacksky Algorithms Scalable, decentralized infrastructure for community-governed social spaces. - Blacksky Algorithms

@K_REY_C umm, I guess, yeah?

They run their own version of the software. Sometimes it's a light fork (such as social-app), and sometimes it's a complete reimplementation from scratch — they wrote a lot of their own infrastructure from scratch in Rust.

https://github.com/blacksky-algorithms/

You know @mastodonmigration, every time you go off about AT Protocol, and I have to spend time answering you, that means I have less time to actively work on things like the ActivityPub specifications or FEPs for things like trust and safety, because I'm busy correcting your bullshit.

RE: https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigration/116122830332229283

Bluesky isn't fucking meant to be a "widely distributed network of small independent servers" — it is meant to be a service through which you have a credible exit if things go to shit for your community.

Blacksky saw that some […]

RE: https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigration/116122828571492086

This is just plain wrong. When you operate a smaller service on AT Protocol, you're not needing to process all the Bluesky data, which happens to be most of the network data at present.

Remember: we share resources to share cost […]

RE: https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigration/116122826580868296

Once again, this is only *if* you want to provide a service to 40+ million users. You probably don't want to do that as an individual.

Running a social network is expensive no matter what you do, when you reach a certain scale […]

RE: https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigration/116122824981352296

Yeah, and it's not uncommon to have Mastodon servers with hundreds of thousands of users, that does require some level of engineering above "just installed the software on a VPS"

Currently mastodon.social runs a server for 3.1 […]

RE: https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigration/116122817979484928

Oh boy, here we go again. The claims in this thread have been debunked a *lot*.

Yes, if you want to run a full-network appview as Bluesky scale, then that means you're run a social platform for 42 million users, processing […]

Let me talk, following on @thisismissem's post, about JSON-LD from a data engineering and web backend perspective:

It's a nightmare.

First: one of the first things you learn about how to address the OWASP lists is the importance of not just accepting random payloads, but carefully validating […]

Folks on here have often said to me that they don't believe there's many apps for AT Protocol, well, maybe this will change minds: https://semble.so/profile/byarielm.fyi/collections/3mfdje7uuhu2r

It's just like how the Fedi has it's "big" apps and most people don't know about all the other apps […]

@nlnet @loops specifically, Dan had mentioned possibly collaborating again in a multiple hour long call I had with him a few months ago. I would've said to email me about the scope of work if he wanted to hire me. There was nothing else after that until this post.

I'm aware that I've been mentioned in a post with regards to @nlnet funding for @loops, seen here: https://mastodon.social/@dansup/116120319973310295

This post was not made with my informed consent. I am *not* involved in Pixelfed nor Loops projects. I have tried in vain to give Daniel advice […]

@pojntfx @reiver keeping your identity separated from any application or data storage provider you use, which is separate from you handle, really does create interesting network & trust boundaries, which enables credible exit: this is something today's fediverse gets wrong. Your fediverse server […]

@pojntfx @reiver yeah, there's the issue with handle & identity being conflated.

@reiver funnily enough, knowing the trade-offs and implications of different systems, I actually find myself preferring did:plc, explicitly because it doesn't depend on having control of a domain name. It allows portability of identities in a way where only one domain need be retained, not N […]

@reiver webfinger and did:web are arguably very similar. Both tie your identity to a domain name, whether under your control or not.

@reiver correction PLC was short for Placeholder, and that was changed to Public Ledger of Credentials last year.

It's being moved to a Swiss Association, and I think the implication is that it wouldn't just be Bluesky involved in it but also other companies.

The IETF working group charter […]

Woke up to like 10 emails from @nodebb today, I really need to figure out my notification settings

A screen shot from an article says... Americans are baffled to discover TikTok is more censored under US ownership than it ever was under China. turns out all that sinophobic scaremongering was just projection. Deaglan O'Mulrooney Jan 27, 2026

"Americans are baffled"? 🤦‍♀️

Really?

Not any of my comrades. We saw that coming from miles away. 🙄

Americans are so thoroughly brainwashed. I am happy to see it breaking more lately, but there are still far too many drinking the red white and blue cool aid.

In which, Blaine Cook ( @blaine ) explains "What is OAuth?" in the framing not of standards and specifications, nor in technical terms, but instead in this framing:

> “What I need is to understand why it is designed this way, and to see concrete examples of use cases that motivate the design” […]

This is really interesting as a read, and follow up to @laurenshof's earlier article this week:

https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fr154-search-and-community/