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matprotocol @mmatt.net · 3h

hosting the central account on a third party PDS would 1. make it so your repo will not get taken down for TOS violations (or anything else) by Bluesky PBC and 2. you will (in theory) always have access to making did:plc document changes.

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matprotocol @mmatt.net · 3h

2. you DON'T have access to your PLC, you have to make a NEW identity, therefore all previous posts need to be updated with a new at-uri in their records.

you can see how this could get potentially messy, especially when hosted on a bsky mushroom

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matprotocol @mmatt.net · 3h

there could be two ways (in my mind) to go about it

1. you have access to PLC rotation keys so you're able to upload your repo to a new PDS and point your identity there, all previous posts will resolve fine

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matprotocol @mmatt.net · 5h

I think they've done some of this here nooki.me/post/communi...

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matprotocol @mmatt.net · 5h

i feel like you could maybe say "just" do this and "just" do that to all of nooki's problems, but I don't know the developer but I would assume that this is their first real ATProto project so those best practices are just unknown to them. I would have done a lot of these same things probably

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matprotocol @mmatt.net · 5h

also I feel like memberships are very much a personal thing, why is this on the host account? just use constellations for backlink count if needed!

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matprotocol @mmatt.net · 5h

it might be failing to get the did document? because when I joined a community on my did:web it used memberId `null`, but when I used my did:plc it used it...........

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matprotocol @mmatt.net · 5h

for the record I hope nooki does well. I hate to join the dogpile but I kinda wish it had more time to grow then being immediately skyrocketed into a bunch of eyes, therefore increasing the risk factor

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matprotocol @mmatt.net · 5h

people posts would point to an invalid at-uri ultimately making the network useless.

same could be said if the communities were hosted in the individual user's repo's too? so it's an interesting problem to go about

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matprotocol @mmatt.net · 5h

you could make that argument, but I'd say it's even worse considering the nooki account is being hosted on Bluesky's PDS, and not them hosting their own account. meaning ultimately at this point if their repo gets taken down without appeal they'd have to rethink the entire app's structure

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matprotocol @mmatt.net · 5h

might just have to do it for the plot tho

matprotocol @mmatt.net · 5h

please do not get any ideas from this tweet, it's just something we should really be thinking about when modeling out ATProto apps.

matprotocol @mmatt.net · 5h

like in theory, wouldn't I be able to take down nooki as a whole by uploading gore to their pds, bsky scans it (the account is hosted on their pds), and the repo gets taken down?

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matprotocol @mmatt.net · 5h

however, it's very jarring that I can upload any image I want to nooki's repo automatically without moderation, I feel like this can get *very* bad in the wrong hands, no? pdsls.dev/at://did:plc...