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Arta 🪁 @arta.bsky.social · 02/05/2023

Reposted by Zach Brown

:)) I cannot believe this that there are already other PDS's running. I thought that part is incomplete and we're not able to use it. Silly me. Yea I'll appreciate an invite to implement the custom PDS feature.

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Zach Brown @brown.bsky.social · 02/05/2023

Yeah for sure. There’s no DMs here so what’s the best place for me to send an invite @arta.bsky.social ?

Zach Brown @brown.bsky.social · 30/04/2023

Designing an invite for my next hosted dinner party

Kris Nuttycombe @nutty.land · 23/04/2023

Reposted by Zach Brown

To be fair, if there’s one thing that would be truly improved by a blockchain system it would be DNS. So it’s not prima facie evident that such an effort is in bad faith.

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Zach Brown @brown.bsky.social · 23/04/2023

Its a genuine exploration of self sovereign identity for us. The Handshake community has been experimenting with an open root namespace, backwards compatible with DNS, for several years now. For context, I’m an active HNS contribute and also run theshake.xyz, a Handshake news and data service.

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Zach Brown @brown.bsky.social · 23/04/2023

Handshake is backwards compatible with DNS and we wanted to run a server as an experiment for the HNS community. We didn’t intend for it to get this much attention. Invites are to Stems are now closed.

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Zach Brown @brown.bsky.social · 22/04/2023

Great ambient turns 😴

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Yup just a PDS. On DNS, normally no, but we’ve extra config to resolve Handshake domains.

Do it! I run one but there should be more.

netop://ウィビ @webb.page · 21/04/2023

Reposted by Zach Brown

Working on a redesign of my Handshake registrar. This is the soon to be old design. After a year of registry work and a recent short vacay in Santa Monica, I’ve been rejuvenated and inspired.

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Working on this stems.social

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Namecheap for me too, yep

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What provider did you have to shorten the TXT record for, out of curiousity?

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Odd if it’s the same name provider… In some cases the provider appends the domain name in the background so you have to put _atproto instead of _atproto.alice.com

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Louis @louisarge.com · 20/04/2023

New ICANN and Verisign proposal would let any government usurp registrars and seize domain names, illustrating the case for Handshake and a neutral root zone. freespeech.com/2023/04/19/red-alert…

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Reposted by Zach Brown

✨ Bring your own algorithm is here ✨ I was inspired by Phil's tweet, so I decided to hack together a little project: Skyline 🏙️ Skyline allows you to create your own AI algo-feeds, OR use one of our pre-defined feeds. Try it out: skyline.gay (the domain was at a discount 😂)

skyline.gay

Skyline

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Zach Brown @brown.bsky.social · 20/04/2023

SpaceX play-by-play but with the telemundo soccer announcers

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Some nature shots for your skyline

domain shopping for a cute handle

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🌱 Stems is about two things — sovereign identity and touching grass.

bluesky server hopping feels like

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The old answer used to be just don’t follow those folks but maybe the new answer is to find the server that best fits your vibe

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alice @alice.mosphere.at · 17/04/2023

Sound & Color by Alabama Shakes

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Reposted by Zach Brown

i got an AAAA on my DNS final exam

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one thing about Handshake that always blows people’s minds is that you can run a light client on your phone to self verify domains and not compromise dns lookup speeds

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For those keen to learn about Handshake, check out my site theshake.xyz

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Handshake domains you can verify as handles on stems.social Self hosted (zach.brxwn) Ethereum subdomains (.records) Cosmos subdomains (.stars) [redacted]

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Namecheap seems to append the domain in the background so for the hostname just put _atproto instead of _atproto.alice.catgirl

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Lotta requests right now, I think we need to scale up our server. Hold tight!

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Happy to help! Where’d you get stuck?

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Federation is not yet enabled in Bluesky (i.e. don't expect posts on this server to show up on Stems and vice versa)

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You need a handshake resolver but it's backwards compatible with DNS so otherwise works exactly the same

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handshake is an alt root zone intended to remove reliance on icann and third party CAs

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great time to be a namespace nerd :)