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@emily.space presenting @aster.id by @atproto.science at @atproto.wien meet up in #Vienna. Aster.id will be the future home for research in the open web.

People sitting in a libary at a big table. People sitting around with laptops. Emily presenting in front of a screen.

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Kyle Drake @kyledrake.com · 1h

Introducing the AOL members 90s web site archive: aol.restorativland.org The IA backup of AOL members sites was.. not as robust as the Geocities one, but there's still plenty of good stuff here. As far as I know this is the first browsable AOL Members Archive ever. Completely unexplored territory.

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 2h

hey hey congrats!

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Mosh Lee @mosh.bsky.social · 16h

Here are some flowers for the @aster.id crew, who managed to announce their launch exactly when asters hit peak purple in north america. (They're smart like that.)

Photo of flowers and grasses behind a log fence, along the Lake Ontario shoreline, backed by blue skies.

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 20h

"most people still prefer that to public-like-Twitter": absolutely! and not trying to convince them to change their mind

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 22h

(Facebook non-publicness probably does help with stalking and intra-family privacy)

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 22h

I think that fully public means you can not exclude even your worst enemy from reading what you wrote, plus sketchy stranger entities you've never heard of. In some ways I think Facebook is the worst of both worlds: sketchy strangers and cops can read, but public interest orgs can't.

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Jaz @jaz.sh · 04/10/2026

Hi protocol friends! I've been cooking up a Very Large PDS (vlpds) implementation capable of scaling up to billions of accounts and down to just one. It uses Object Storage as its only state, supports HA operation, live scaling up and down, is feature-complete with the reference PDS, and is FOSS.

vlpds.jazco.dev

Overview · vlpds docs

An atproto PDS whose only durable storage is an object store. Any node serves any request, one node can run a personal server for free, and a few nodes can carry all of Bluesky's write load.

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 04/10/2026

("public but contextual" maybe the phrase i'm looking for not "structured")

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 04/10/2026

damn! glad you walked away. highly recommend Tagaderm (or equivalent) for road rash type injuries. "breathes", semi-waterproof, less puss, etc. sometimes you can get it cheaper online from canada. The Ladies holding it all together yet again

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 04/10/2026

oh and public-to-private flows, like what @germnetwork.com is doing. I originally thought this was trivial but it sort of isn't.

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 04/10/2026

yeah I could have been clearer

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 04/10/2026

and neighborhood to municipal scale less-public. yay @roundabout.town and Blacksky Acorn

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 04/10/2026

the most interesting (and under-explored) design spaces to me right now are: "structured" public conversation (meaning scope/locality but still public) flexible spectrum of visibility but usable. Livejournal was the best at this IMO

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 04/10/2026

group chats and community chats have nearly complete market penetration. they are arguably the dominant mode of this era, far from ignored or neglected.

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 04/10/2026

I do think that some folks (myself included) can have blindspots around how important friction is even in public. and how important it can be to integrate of big-P Public and little-p public and non-public modes all in to one experience

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 04/10/2026

even if one-in-a-thousand humans in the world really participate in The Public Conversation, it is really important for that happens openly and not be captured.

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 04/10/2026

(replies disabled) even if you conclude that private conversation is more important than public conversation, you can conclude that public conversation is relatively under-resourced / under-developed. almost all tech interest for a decade+ has been public broadcast (not convo) or private convo

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 04/10/2026

"why do so many people support politicians with such unpopular policies"

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 04/10/2026

coming up on four years since I wrote "What is atproto good for?", and I think it has held up pretty well bnewbold.net/2022/atproto...

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 04/10/2026

thinking about Bernard Moitessier again. just keep sailing, "parce que je suis heureux en mer et peut-être pour sauver mon âme"

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 03/10/2026

I think this is a pretty meh take. musk has been involved with some impressive and successful projects, but also a huge wake of failed projects and hyped bullshit. compared to tech barons like jobs, gates, bezos, butterfield, etc, who maintained a degree of credibility.

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 02/10/2026

thinking about going to TPAC in the future, but probably won't make this one. I'll be at IETF 127 in SF though! planning to do most of the weekend hackathon before, and maybe some local ecosystem side events

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 02/10/2026

some of those prefs could in theory be generic, like language and localization

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 02/10/2026

I think @alex.mcroberts.me is thinking of preferences, which are something that (personal) spaces are designed to work for. eg, right now the reference PDS has special bsky-specific logic for handling preferences, and it would be great to use spaces for that instead

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 02/10/2026

what are the most important settings to you that can't be configured in the PDS account interface?

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Darrin Loeliger @darrin.bsky.team · 01/10/2026

We want to make it easier for creators to link out and attract financial support, so we're exploring a new feature that lets you add links on your profile. They show up as buttons under your bio.

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microcosm: atproto building blocks @microcosm.blue · 29/09/2026

STAR could be the serialization format for atproto spaces! maybe! the v1 format isn’t finalized yet, so now is a great time to share feedback and help shape it!

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 01/10/2026

we seemed to have some internal packet loss, which I think got at least mitigated in the past hour, that might have fixed things

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 01/10/2026

I'm very happy about this return to form-factor! aka curated and summarized updates from fediverse ecosystem (and/or atmosphere ecosystem)

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 01/10/2026

cool! I'm very enthusiastic about trying different opinionated structures and modalities like this

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 01/10/2026

I think some routing changes may have been made recently? I passed this along to our infra folks.

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Where We're At @where-were.at · 01/10/2026

☁️ Hello Atmosphere! People like to have opinions, which is awesome. Problem is, putting them into perspective is hard. Where We're At is here to change that! 👉 Head over to where-were.at to let us know your opinions about the state of the Atmosphere. We'd love to hear from you!

where-were.at

2026 · Where We're At

An annual developer survey of the people building on the AT Protocol.

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Aster ID @aster.id · 30/09/2026

The modern research ecosystem of online tools and communities is controlled by for-profit companies. But we think that researchers should be the priority - not the product. So, we're announcing Aster ID: not-for-profit Atmosphere account hosting for researchers.

blog.aster.place

Announcing Aster - a home for researchers on the open web

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 30/09/2026

what is produced in that factory

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 30/09/2026

this is starting now! hop in

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 29/09/2026

help I misclicked and now I want to go home

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 29/09/2026

(not trying to dunk or pile on, I think labor and toil reduction is usually a good thing in the big picture, just have a brain itch about the broad statement)

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 29/09/2026

Is that actually true? Like, what is the more specific claim/observation about labor markets? Has anything ever reduced long-term employment? it's always felt like saying "eh, these things tend to sort themselves out".

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 28/09/2026

it was not available for immediate registration

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