bryan newbold

dweb, cycling, snow, big cities, wiki. I like speculating about found objects.
protocol engineer @bsky.app. formerly archive.org
elsewhere: bnewbold.net / @bnewbold@social.coop

[bridged from bryan newbold by Bridgy Fed]

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2024-10-18 07:21:07

welcome back, ganodermians!
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:44ybard66vv44zksje25o7dz/post/3l6qwvqxx5a25
#note1zhr…kpl6

2024-10-18 02:39:47

we are looking in to a problem one of our smaller newer PDS instances.
a few new accounts from today can't log in right now. hope to have resolved soon!

2024-09-02 00:13:15

this is super "atproto ethos"

2024-08-30 23:58:50

infra team getting a distribution of The Juice for keeping things humming, like we're on a whaling ship or some shit

2024-08-30 23:47:39

we made a change about 12 minutes ago a reduce some Relay buffer sizes, to reduce RAM use. if this is causing problems for folks consuming the firehose, please ping me!
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:44ybard66vv44zksje25o7dz/post/3l2xvnrxsl42j
#note1qnd…chpt

2024-08-30 23:25:18

a couple infra bounces. bunch of these are just knobs we haven't fiddled with in a loooong time, and hitting our own rate-limits
"core fundamentals remain strong", knock on wood

2024-08-30 18:12:28

it also had major cultural/hype impact as side effects, which were a very mixed bag. I guess there is no reason for anybody to trust us if we said we would not have used invite codes as long if we could have avoided it though.

2024-08-30 18:09:12

nit: Twitter did pay Bluesky to build a protocol/technology in a way that twitter.com could use it. that wouldn't be a "merge", because there would be no bluesky community/network in that plan: bluesky was just R&D and would (in theory) consult/advise twitter on how to adopt the tech.

2024-08-30 01:04:56

we suspect some consumers are fail-looping; we might detect that and block the IPs?
we might restart the relay at times to clear memory and stale connections

2024-08-30 01:01:28

rollercoaster of a day!
the bluesky relay is holding up fine at the moment, but a couple infra notes:
would be great if consumers can set a user-agent so we can informally differentiate and understand load patterns
backfill requests are more expensive than keeping up with stream

2024-08-29 23:02:49

discover feed having some trouble, giving it a kick

2024-08-29 20:06:17

hello 🇧🇷

2024-08-28 21:00:31

rolling out basic AP support a small step at a time works very effectively for PR!
I know facebook claims this is about legal/reputation risk, but i'm pretty skeptical. they have found a way to get positive press over a multi-year time frame for very little practical interop (and zero adversarial?)
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:jc6owhpd4cbnr35x5h5natsi/post/3l2sjetpxl62j
#note1etj…f6f9

2024-08-28 03:54:00

trying to implement atproto OAuth in an SDK or new language?
got a draft implementation guide up, interested in feedback.
(hopefully most general devs won't have to get in to these details+acronyms; just use an SDK!)
github.com/bluesky-social...

2024-08-27 17:56:47

atproto devs!
we are rolling out a small set of changes to OAuth: some required scopes, DPoP needs to start at PAR, and removed some openid/OIDC stuff. client packages, PDS self-hosting, and prod PDS/entryway all getting updates
may disrupt early demos, but should be more stable after this.

2024-08-26 19:43:00

tired: having a unicode character for your protocol (⁂)
wired: having an ASCII character for your protocol (@)
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:7g5cwudxc4ybqwvarredxzwi/post/3l2ktmblvvc42
#note1zu4…k04z

2024-08-23 21:38:26

legit seems like "federation" terminology seems to be causing more confusion than understanding for atproto.
I think it was maybe helpful earlier on, but less now. would changing the terminology feel like a helpful clarification or a rug-pull?

2024-08-12 07:31:52

bit of personal blogging about atproto, and progress we are making on early goals+values for the protocol
bnewbold.net/2024/atproto...

2024-08-12 05:07:46

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2024-07-11 07:26:09

have an extra relay running at 'relay-ovh.demo.bsky.dev'. it is currently crawling/relaying the vast majority of the network, and should respond to crawl requests.
$153/month bare metal instance

2024-07-03 01:23:47

I am optimistic that the current labeler setup could work for more categories:
many types of content-warning, basic misinfo, "old meme", misleading bots, engagement farming, some spam - more apparent and automatable

2024-07-02 22:23:12

quick project idea: take a set of URLs (browser bookmarks, pinboard.in list, RSS/OPML set, etc) and check which have atproto/bsky accounts

2024-06-27 01:26:37

atproto devs!
we are going to shut down the "sandbox" environment soon. it could still be valuable, but has been unloved and could lead developers astray.
we want to focus our dev support resources. what would be most helpful for the ecosystem? anything you personally are waiting on?
Shutting down atproto Sandbox ...

2024-06-27 01:12:26

PDS self-hosters!
we have a distro release coming soon. the first part is schema support for starter packs, a feature we just released that uses records in the PDS.
second is early OAuth backend support. we don't have the atproto OAuth system documented/specified, but will be soon

2024-06-21 21:34:13

bsky sustainability model is going to be brainworm tariffs, collected at the bridge

2024-06-18 21:38:17

for me, the goalpost is that running a full-network appview should be accessible to:
Internet Archive
Chaos Computer Club
RiseUp (maybe)
Wikimedia Foundation
US/EU university labs
5 person startup
without breaking much of a sweat (aka, existing ops teams), even with network growth over time

2024-06-06 18:04:58

how much does it cost to run a full-network atproto Relay today?
I'm planning to confirm this with some demos/experiments in the near future, but i'm pretty confident it is ballpark $100/month per instance in infra costs

2024-06-04 00:00:42

we are thinking of tearing down the atproto sandbox environment: we don't use it ourselves, haven't been maintaining it, and with open federation seems like less utility.
is anybody getting value out of it?

2024-05-23 00:54:18

interested in self-hosting atproto/bsky services?
this community-sourced docker compose file shows how to get all the components configured and working together. very helpful for testing!