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daniel 🫠 @dholms.xyz · Apr 4

This is an article that I've wanted to write for over a year, and I finally got the chance to do it!

Atproto Ethos is a deep dive into how we think about protocol design - its influences, the core innovations, and the opinionated takes that we've adopted

Atproto Ethos - AT Protocol

A deep dive into the philosophical and aesthetic principles underlying the design of AT Protocol.

atproto.com

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daniel 🫠 @dholms.xyz · 21h

oh dude let's go

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Paul Frazee @pfrazee.com · 23h

Want to remark on a sentiment I've heard from the AT dev community ‒ in specific words, even, from @bmann.ca, @knowtheory.net, and @rude1.blacksky.team, which I'll likely botch here:

Lead with joy, not fear.

I think that belief shows up a lot, and it's really affected me for the better!

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daniel 🫠 @dholms.xyz · 23h

tangled runs lexhub? 🥺

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daniel 🫠 @dholms.xyz · 23h

lmao spot on

daniel 🫠 @dholms.xyz · 23h

i'd probably recommend most devs use something like supabase for a small/medium sized app

would be down for a tech talk!

daniel 🫠 @dholms.xyz · 23h

yea i totally agree on slices, i'm very excited about it

i view the comparison kinda like "supabase vs express". they're both tools for making apis easier to build but one is a tool for devs to use flexibly in their stack. the other is a productized full-stack solution

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daniel 🫠 @dholms.xyz · 1d

735 in my atproto, but i think i cleaned it up at some point

daniel 🫠 @dholms.xyz · 1d

also fwiw, part of the goal is also to develop to develop a technically correct reference impl for a sync 1.1 consumer which doesn't exist yet

github.com/bluesky-soci...

proposals/0006-sync-iteration at main · bluesky-social/proposals

Bluesky proposal discussions. Contribute to bluesky-social/proposals development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

daniel 🫠 @dholms.xyz · 1d

hmm i think the sync tool has a much narrower job

it's trying to be a lightweight/flexible offloader for doing the sync bit of AT and then hand off control to the application

my understanding is slices is a much more full stack solution that handles record-indexing & api generation

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daniel 🫠 @dholms.xyz · 1d

you can say that again

sending strength & love 💙

daniel 🫠 @dholms.xyz · 2d

sounds pretty incredible tbh

i'll save it for a gloomy saturday this winter lol

daniel 🫠 @dholms.xyz · 2d

yeah i need to watch the film - just gotta find 7 hours for it 😅

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daniel 🫠 @dholms.xyz · 2d

blood meridian makes you trudge through it in the hot sun, satantango let's it seep into your bones in a cool damp spider-infested corner

daniel 🫠 @dholms.xyz · 2d

it's funny it came out the same year as blood meridian because they really remind me of each other -

both exploring shattered myths, the despair of the material/rational world & the allure of its false salvation and yet (imo) gesturing toward some hope of finding the infinite in it

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daniel 🫠 @dholms.xyz · 2d

type of book you wish you could read in the original hungarian, but i have to imagine the translation does it some type of justice because it's a very powerful read

takes a second to get going but once you do the writing sucks you into this weird depressed/paranoid/labyrinthine state of mind

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daniel 🫠 @dholms.xyz · 2d

oh cool the first time i've read a nobel prize winner before they won the prize. i just read satantango earlier this year. what a harrowing spider web of misery of a book (complimentary)

www.nobelprize.org/prizes/liter...

Nobel Prize in Literature 2025

The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2025 was awarded to László Krasznahorkai, “for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art.”

www.nobelprize.org

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daniel 🫠 @dholms.xyz · 2d

lower than that, it's just bounded by the feasibility of "mining" a key with a large number of leading 0s. bitcoin blocks are like ~80 leading zeros rn so if you threw the whole hashpower of the bitcoin network at mining MST keys you could make an MST with height 40 in about 10 minutes

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daniel 🫠 @dholms.xyz · 2d

key height is determined by hash value. AT uses a 2-bit grouping scheme & sha256 so it's hard bounded at a height of 128

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daniel 🫠 @dholms.xyz · 2d

it's not "sqlite backend", it's "sqlites (plural) backend"

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daniel 🫠 @dholms.xyz · 2d

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daniel 🫠 @dholms.xyz · 2d

i'm hoping we can wrap this up in a real simple one-click deploy for something like railway/fly.io

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daniel 🫠 @dholms.xyz · 3d

ah got it got it

yeah the output would be validated operations for your application to consume. basically it should handle all the AT stuff and just hand the application "this record was created, this record was deleted"

then the application can do whatever indexing it wants to

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daniel 🫠 @dholms.xyz · 3d

probably not regex, but will allow filtering based on collection!

this would probably be a small stateful service that a developer runs and then exposes the validated/filtered stream as either a websocket or webhooks to their application

daniel 🫠 @dholms.xyz · 3d

really anyone that needs to sync some subset of the network. mainly have applications in mind. should work for anything from bluesky-sized appviews to new small applications

and no haven't landed that stuff yet, but it is on the radar!

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daniel 🫠 @dholms.xyz · 3d

it would make it easier to build alternate apps

essentially what Rudy describes here would be more approachable

bsky.app/profile/rude...

Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 3d

I hear and see your concerns. Over the weekend, a couple users hosted on Blacksky's PDS were banned from the Bluesky app and thus the Bluesky API servers. This was a weakness of our system I've been aware of and hoped we had more time to address before any kind of public incident. 1/11