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our main focus is getting the directory operations transferred. doing transparency logs and post-quantum definitely on everybody's minds.

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I'd registered that earlier thinking we might want the shorter domain. but it emphasized the cred/red confusion, and the .org is nice both as a TLD signal being actually part of the entity name

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just how deep does this turducken go

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Filippo Valsorda @filippo.abyssdomain.expert · 28/09/2026

it is nice and cool mid-summer

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Reposted by bryan newbold

I'm excited to announce that the PLC Organization now has a statute! And a bank account! And a @standard.site publication! All the important stuff. The PLC Org is an independent Swiss Association meant to operate the PLC directory, which collects and distributes signed updates to atproto accounts.

blog.plcred.org

First steps of the PLC organization - Public Ledger of Credentials Organization

One year ago, Bluesky Social PBC announced their intention to facilitate the creation of an independent organization to operate the Public Ledger of Credenti…

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this would return the record in CBOR with commit-like metadata, eg in a STAR-lite file. you don't get to reuse the signed commit like you do for public broadcast, but that is already the case with full repo exports

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we are hoping/planning to add an endpoint that requests a single space record and gets a cryptographic commitment on that single record the same way you get one on the overall repo. eg, LtHash of a set with one element (or maybe just SHA-256 of the record or something)

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it's "cred" as in "credentials"

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First steps of the PLC organization

Hello World from the PLC organization (plcred.org)! The org was soft-announced back in March at AtmosphereConf. We've been working through logistics step by step and now have a public web presence we can point to.

blog.plcred.org

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 27/09/2026

oh sick, looks like keechelus lake. did you go through the long snoqualmie pass tunnel? that tunnel entrance in the shot looks different

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if/when we do community notes, it would be cool if everybody who interacted with the OP got a notification when an annotation goes live. (idk if twitter did that)

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 26/09/2026

yeah, though I do like it being '*l' in ASCII versus hex, and having space for version/variant in there is good

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oh, I see the size limits are in the text. i'd probably make that more flexible? eg, a default or recommendation, but feels like it should be able to adapt if atproto norms change

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eg the blobs example I gave they would end up with 'blob/...' at the end, which would be out of overall sort order. for multi-space-repo export, could be nested, with keys being space-ref, and the value being a STAR file. would expect readers to have configurable "max block size"

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yeah this looks nice. nit-picky, but I think of magic bytes as being 4x bytes, which is also a bit more word-aligned. could be just another 0x00 for now. explicitly possible to have zero key/value pairs, right? wonder if the key sort ordering should be more use-case specified...

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has anybody tried asking an AI agent to help migrate an old platform account to atproto? eg, "migrate all my instagram posts to grain", or "migrate my twitter account to blacksky". like it requests and processes an export, matches following graph particularly fun if meta muse can do it

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FWIW my overall vibes around this being the spaces repo serialization spec are that i'm now open to it. I still think a CAR format would not be too bad, and being boring/consistent would be good. but i'm not strident about it.

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I've always kind of wanted a way to optionally include blobs. maybe that could be a second section, after all the records, with path 'blob/<cid>'? varints: i'd stick to what is currently used count in header: I'd probably skip? feels like Content-Length HTTP header would be more useful (but hard)

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as danny notes being able to do a "multi-space" repo account export might be nice for backup+migration. though maybe that could just be a zip or tarball. ability to do a single space record would be nice, wrapping a CBOR record. maybe a different magic version and header CBOR '$type'?

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 24/09/2026

some notes parallel to @dholms.at: I'm confused why the commitment (integrity?) hash would not go in the header CBOR. I like having magic! and it being extensible. combining the "type" and "version" together in a single byte might work?

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I'm not super surprised? huge amounts of fuzzing, static analysis, defense in depth, etc had already been thrown at it. very far from human review/eyes alone. i'd be curious what flavor of tooling has had the best payoff-per-compute-cycles, but path dependency makes that hard to sort out

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 24/09/2026

SCAR file right there and you didn't take it

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one idea around this was that the auth server would detect if permission-sets "covered" any bare inline permissions, and would "roll them up" if so. i'm not sure if that ended up shipping in the ref impl

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as an alternative metric i'd be curious about "fraction hours of productive/positive web use than happen in a browser session w/ bookmarks". eg, i'd assume browser usage is power law, and heavy users more likely to use bookmarks

eg, ctrl-t (new tab), or meta-f (new browser session), then type a word that matches a bookmark or recent website is a sub-conscious flow for me. remote search is slower and almost never what I want, I have it disabled. also super psychologically helpful for me to drop tabs in to black hole folders

I use them intensively on my main device (laptop, don't use sync). I organize social posts and essays that I link folks to frequently. search is bad for finding important stuff if I don't know exact keywords/names. I heavily use location bar type-ahead, which matches bookmark titles+URLs very fast

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thanks for the kind words! hope we can all learn from each other

Blacksky Algorithms @blackskyweb.xyz · 23/09/2026

Reposted by bryan newbold

🎉 Acorn is officially open. You can now create a space for your community on the open social web - no wait required. acorn.blacksky.community

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wait it all out at the nearest bathhouse / spa

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- following count (no big accounts) - post count - PDS host (if you want activitypub dynamics) - payment attestation/receipts - "follows brand account" or "left a positive review of venue" (dark pattern)

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 22/09/2026

the simplespace managing-app thing makes it very easy to define space access based on arbitrary info, without managing an actual member list. you could create restricted spaces based on: - handle on a domain or TLD - PLC identity minted in a time window (eg, elders only) - account labels

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yes! summer is full but i'd be down for something late 2027