Posts by mackuba@martianbase.net
(DIR) Post #AxsRJecNKprdKffssC by mackuba@martianbase.net
2025-09-04T22:56:51Z
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@wjmaggos Wouldn't you think that Masnick has some insight into how much money Bluesky has and is spending?
(DIR) Post #AxyVJylK0L14Ze1rdY by mackuba@martianbase.net
2025-09-07T21:09:54Z
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@wjmaggos The initiative came from @thisismissem, who is mostly active in the Mastodon/Fediverse ecosystem and not in ATProto - are you suggesting that she has some secret knowledge about Bluesky's business plans and is working with them?… ðŸ«
(DIR) Post #AydfdZ1RKWovCcNpmi by mackuba@martianbase.net
2025-09-27T17:46:49Z
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@SnowyCA @chris @evan @blaine @wjmaggos I honestly don't remember when was the last time I saw a single right-wing extremist on Bluesky…
(DIR) Post #AydhAX0HxKRiS783Rw by mackuba@martianbase.net
2025-09-27T17:59:06Z
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@evan @blaine @wjmaggos One possible problem with that is that even if that happened, this would mean that when one random person follows you from Bluesky, all your future posts would become visible in the open on a public website and the global firehose and to the 30M+ Bluesky users. From what I know about Mastodon users, a lot of them would probably not like that… (since a lot of them very loudly objected specifically to that when Snarfed wanted Bridgy to work this way at first).
(DIR) Post #AzBGjOBedWfjr6Tnm4 by mackuba@martianbase.net
2025-10-13T22:49:55Z
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@wjmaggos I think it's also e.g. for hashtags - for example, on my personal instance, if I click on a hashtag # swiftlang, I see 2 posts from the last week, while on https://mastodon.social/tags/swiftlang I see 20. One of the two is from someone I follow, and the other is from a person that someone I follow replied to. This makes following hashtags completely pointless on small instances like mine, because I mostly just see the posts I've already seen there. So a Fedi relay can fix that.
(DIR) Post #AzBH7RCb4sLu9nO6kK by mackuba@martianbase.net
2025-10-13T22:54:16Z
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@wjmaggos @reiver I think looking for similarity between ATProto relays and Fedi relays just leads to confusion, because imho they serve very different roles: one is a critical piece of the architecture, and the other is just an optional tool to let you see more content than otherwise… I wrote a bit about this in my blog post here: https://mackuba.eu/2025/08/20/introduction-to-atproto/#relay
(DIR) Post #AzXf7KIHR1pp6ne0JM by mackuba@martianbase.net
2025-10-24T17:55:05Z
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@mastodonmigration @wjmaggos Yeah, IIRC the default was switched for new users around… May/June 2024 I think? I have mixed feelings about this myself tbh (also on whether it actually serves the intended purpose well)
(DIR) Post #AzXf7LYyiQmn2sSqye by mackuba@martianbase.net
2025-10-24T18:00:29Z
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@mastodonmigration @wjmaggos To be clear, this is very different from Twitter, because 1) if you remove it, it never ever comes back to your pinned tabs, and 2) for better or worse, it's a much much simpler algorithm than on Twitter. But it is a default, and defaults are powerful.
(DIR) Post #AzXfL78FAQpgLGWYs4 by mackuba@martianbase.net
2025-10-24T18:09:21Z
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@wjmaggos @mastodonmigration About the default switch? I think this was done without any announcements, here's a comment I saved about this from Dan who worked there at that time: https://bsky.app/profile/danabra.mov/post/3kyz5bydt4s2e
(DIR) Post #AzYFMD3mD30zMnFxrc by mackuba@martianbase.net
2025-10-25T00:52:52Z
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@wjmaggos @sspopovich @mastodonmigration Believe it or not, they are 🙃
(DIR) Post #B1vZtKXWPuA9nIs5gm by mackuba@martianbase.net
2026-01-02T17:18:46Z
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Mastodon people: #Bluesky forces their algorithms on you so they can manipulate you for their nefarious right-wing capitalist purposesReality: Bluesky promotes a third party algorithmic feed competing with their own (run by one dude on his desktop PC) from their official account so that more people know about and use the alternatives
(DIR) Post #B25EAHUfQ0Nouc83zE by mackuba@martianbase.net
2026-01-08T18:29:04Z
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@wjmaggos We're not fully there yet I'm afraid, AFAIK the alternative AppViews haven't yet gone beyond experiments phase. I don't think Blacksky has launched theirs yet publicly. There is a fork of the client you can use which loads data from PDSes directly (RedDwarf), but that's a bit of a hack.
(DIR) Post #B2LQC5SfQt109YBE6i by mackuba@martianbase.net
2026-01-15T22:10:31Z
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I kinda want to build a plugin or script or something that blocks an IP on the firewall after a single HTTP request to /wp-includes…
(DIR) Post #B2Pumbo2QZm09OLZ32 by mackuba@martianbase.net
2026-01-18T16:31:05Z
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Blacksky's independent AppView is starting to be usable:#bluesky #atproto
(DIR) Post #B2PwWvFAaiPZi5gY76 by mackuba@martianbase.net
2026-01-18T18:20:35Z
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@wjmaggos Rudy says he "needed to buy a $14K OVH Cloud instance", but I honestly don't know if that's one-time or per year (or per month??) or what… But it's been done for $200/mo too (https://whtwnd.com/futur.blue/3ls7sbvpsqc2w), though that was a prototype and you definitely need something more robust for production use by many people
(DIR) Post #B2PwwhDJNQQdj56d4i by mackuba@martianbase.net
2026-01-18T18:25:15Z
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@wjmaggos Nope, but they have a very custom setup that's meant to support millions of DAU users, and none of the current or near future independent installations is going to target anything close to that size - this might happen one day but it's probably years away
(DIR) Post #B2PxnhUH5eTtvGJZj6 by mackuba@martianbase.net
2026-01-18T18:34:50Z
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@wjmaggos Not necessarily - if you have a server designed to index the whole network but serve 1000 users actually using it (reading data from it), then it might work just as well for those 1000 users as what Bluesky is running
(DIR) Post #B2QwAsmGzoaSaLAbKK by mackuba@martianbase.net
2026-01-19T00:31:32Z
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@wjmaggos If you only want to view content from accounts you've explicitly followed (and only posted after you've followed them), then I think the AP architecture is more optimal for this use case… (maybe ignoring the "DDOS effect" of having tens/hundreds of thousands of followers on a large number of different instances that you'd need to send every post to).
(DIR) Post #B2QwB0JUygK7xPljaS by mackuba@martianbase.net
2026-01-19T00:38:20Z
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@wjmaggos While the AT approach gives you the benefits of everything outside your circles also being accessible in one place, like:- custom feeds with all posts from anyone matching some set of keywords- global trending topics and popular posts- global search as you mentioned- hashtag feeds with actually every post on the network tagged with this hashtag- looking at anyone's profile and seeing their past content- being able to always like/reply/RT anyone's post (doesn't always work here)
(DIR) Post #B2R5BfINVV7ueEdQA4 by mackuba@martianbase.net
2026-01-19T01:52:42Z
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@wjmaggos Yeah, things like fetching missing replies are a huge step forward I gotta say (though I'm not sure what are the performance implications of that), but I still think a lot of such things that the AppView approach allows will be very hard or impossible to do in Mastodon (although on the other hand, in practice a big % of the Fediverse is on one server mastodon.social, which makes a lot of these things work almost as well as on Bluesky, but it's also not really what you're arguing for…)