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Boris

@bmann.ca

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Web tinkerer. Pooling capital and collaboration. What if we made things a little bit better? #Vancouver #cooking #restaurant #atproto I'm on Germ DM 🔑 https://ger.mx/Axe3y6qlKjg6Yr15PwIYwB1zmaoJLIKUGlT442f8nrg4#did:plc:2cxgdrgtsmrbqnjkwyplmp43

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Boris @bmann.ca · 15d

I have a whole folder of ATProto apps on iOS (plus a select few directly on my Home Screen).

Today we call them “ATproto” apps.

In the future … they’re just a better way to build a wide range of apps, where users own their data, login in anywhere, and choose different interfaces.

Screenshot of a portion of an iOS Home Screen.

The icons for Bluesky, Ouranos, Leaflet, and Semble are shown, plus a folder labeled ATProto that has PinkSky, Popfeed, Spark, Flashes, Skylight, Anisota, Bookhive, Germ, and Anchor in it.

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 7h

One strategic thing about making this an appealing scientific community is to overshare and boost work from graduate students here

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Index @indexx.dev · 42m

real ones use my coolify compose that has been working on my main for months now (no pdsadmin cli because i live life on the edge like that, aka i'm lazy)

tangled.org/strings/inde...

coolify_pds_compose.yaml · by @indexx.dev

Docker compose file for deploying a Bluesky PDS through Coolify

tangled.org

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Boris @bmann.ca · 2h

Listed already. There are a couple of people looking to improve the Coolify build which is a bit jank.

Other than DNS, the Railway template is more “one click” discourse.atprotocol.community/c/resources-...

Resources & Learning

Shared docs, lists and other wiki like discussions and info.

discourse.atprotocol.community

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Kuba Suder 🇵🇱🇺🇦 @mackuba.eu · 8h

Watching this podcast with @rude1.blacksky.team and @rabble.nz now:

Rudy Fraser on Blacksky, Mutual Aid & Reclaiming Social Media

YouTube video by revolution.social with @rabble

www.youtube.com

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Bailey Townsend 🦀 @baileytownsend.dev · 19h

constellation and slingshot is the answer to it all. that’s the goal post and you ain’t going move it cause that’s the answer to it

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bretton @bretton.dev · 23h

I'm currently going down the path of Group Controlled DIDs now here: tangled.org/@bretton.dev...

Short-term I'm assigning ownership to the "instance" DID which is very Lemmy like for better or for worse, but unavoidable imo. Long-term going to try to implement multi tenant ownership & portability

@bretton.dev/coves

A community based topic aggregation platform built on atproto

tangled.org

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tgirl.cloud @tgirl.cloud · 1d

setting up your flake is something opionated. something personal. so thats why easy-hosts is such a minmal wrapper around your system outputs on your flake. it should be up to you to control how it works. we had power users and beginners in mind when making it, so hopefully it fits your needs best.

GitHub - tgirlcloud/easy-hosts: a flake module to ease creating and managing multiple hosts in your nix flake.

a flake module to ease creating and managing multiple hosts in your nix flake. - tgirlcloud/easy-hosts

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Boris @bmann.ca · 20h

Yep. The positive version of this should be an affirmation. Striving for the cozy web.

Boris @bmann.ca · 20h

pdsadmin is a shell script. Did you get your limit bumped? cc @bnewbold.net the tangled PDS needs unblocking

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Foldster @foldster.bsky.social · 22h

Demosky demos are now also embeddable, especially on Leaflet!

Mathober

Mathober is a month-long event to create art inspired by math-related terms, one for each day of October.

foldsters-portfolio.leaflet.pub

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Boris @bmann.ca · 22h

There are ways to explain it both ways so it makes sense.

From the novel, there are predators in the dark forest.

One can explain this as hiding in small groups but then we don’t have a label for the “bad” open Internet.

Boris @bmann.ca · 22h

Need this for @smokesignal.events thingies too.

Catalogs?

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Boris @bmann.ca · 22h

It’s fine. Every app has to actually build something that users care about enough to use.

You can just … not talk about it or promote it vs other services you’re more excited about.

I did mention that OAuth was going to be needed for safety. Everything else 🤷

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Boris @bmann.ca · 22h

Yep! And being “in defense of” the dark forest is awkward - but we’re in defense of the open web, just have not have it exclusively be a dark forest.

(Totally not confusing!)

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 1d

wrote up a little thing

AT Namespaces for Community Spaces

How should public community-controlled spaces be represented in atproto?

bnewbold.leaflet.pub

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Boris @bmann.ca · 1d

The entry point in my notes for Dark Forest is here bmannconsulting.com/notes/dark-f...

Boris @bmann.ca · 1d

Going to take some notes on this post.

Still annoyed that “dark forest” has opposite definitions depending on the person.

Mine is “dark forest is the open internet where ads and scammers are everywhere and it’s hard to find trusted spaces” and private / group spaces are called “cozy web”

spencer chang @spencer.place · 1d

wrote about "alive internet theory" or why the bots won't win

news.spencer.place/p/alive-inte...

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𝕮 @chrisshank.com · 1d

Software is inherently 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘰𝘶𝘴, yet we package it up as single-use apps and create laws preventing the modification of those apps.

𝕮 @chrisshank.com · 1d

"Theseotomy" by @jakefee.bsky.social

"A sock that can be darned is also theseous. Wool socks are wonderfully theseous. The repairs made to a woolen sock will felt back into the original fabric until they are inseparable. A sock made of acrylic yarns that frays and dissolves irreparably is non-theseous. That sort of industrially-made low-quality sock has undergone a theseotomy. A theseotomy is a procudure in which the theseous nature of a thing has been destroyed or damaged."

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Boris @bmann.ca · 1d

Of course! Totally depends on who you’re trying to speak to.

I think semweb is too intense, where everything that isn’t RDF is looked down on.

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spencer chang @spencer.place · 1d

wrote about "alive internet theory" or why the bots won't win

news.spencer.place/p/alive-inte...

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Bailey Townsend 🦀 @baileytownsend.dev · 1d

This is a @bad-example.com appreciation post. They really are the best and always so helpful. 10/10 person and they really are making the atmosphere a better place

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Boris @bmann.ca · 1d

Too obscure. Coming up with different ways to explain that ATProto is your iCloud account of the future.

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Boris @bmann.ca · 1d

maybe DID in the checkin instead of handle? Would help be more permanent.

I understand dropanchor/handle as a destination.

Boris @bmann.ca · 1d

Yes from the app.

Boris @bmann.ca · 1d

@tijs.org I didn’t get a pretty open graph image of my photo.

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