What is Hackers' Pub?

Bluesky Report 115 - This week's news for #Bluesky and #atproto:

- Lots of new independent atproto infrastructure, with new relays, appviews, and more
- research on blocking behaviour on Bluesky
- Graze is giving dev grants to accelerate the ecosystem

https://fediversereport.com/bluesky-report-115/

Bluesky Report 115 - This week's news for Bluesky and atproto: - Lots of new independent atproto infrastructure, with new relays, appviews, and more - research on blocking behaviour on Bluesky - @graze.social is giving dev grants to accelerate the ecosystem fediversereport.com/bluesky-repo...

Bluesky Report – #115

#rustlang @fasterthanlimeamos

So finally, as promised unsynn v0.1.0 is out. Give it a good beating. It certainly has some rough edges. Development on more features already started.

I sneaked in some last minute additions to the macros:
* Type definitions in unsynn! are passed through.
* There is a minimal automatic doc generator. Currently for keyword! and operator!, this will be extended in future and will only augment user docs.

https://crates.io/crates/unsynn

Rust Dependencies scare Me https://lobste.rs/s/j3nhhc #rust
https://vincents.dev/blog/rust-dependencies-scare-me/?

Progress toward fusion energy gain as measured against the Lawson criteria

Link: https://www.fusionenergybase.com/articles/continuing-progress-toward-fusion-energy-breakeven-and-gain-as-measured-against-the-lawson-criteria
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43927337

ArXiv AI papers should list a "flops needed to reproduce experiments" in the abstract.

Bluesky Report – #115

Independent ATProto infrastructure has been rapidly expanding recently, experiments with games on ATProto, and Graze offers developer grants.

I also run a weekly newsletter, where you get all the articles I published this week directly in your inbox, as well as additional analysis. You can sign up right here, and get the next edition tomorrow!

Independent Infrastructure news

Over the last week, the effort towards decentralisation and running independent pieces of ATProto infrastructure has sped up significantly. There are now multiple relays that are publicly accessible. Other people also have made alternate AppViews that are Bluesky-compatible. Combined, this makes it now possible to fully use Bluesky without using any infrastructure owned by Bluesky PBC, and the first people have done so. To do so means using a separate PDS, relay, AppView and client.

Some of the updates regarding relays:

• Blacksky has built their own relay, using their own custom implementation. This relay is publicly accessible, meaning that other people can use this relay instead of the relay that Bluesky PBC uses.
• A writeup on how to set up your own relay by Bluesky engineer Bryan Newbold, for some 34 USD/month.
• Making relays cheaper has been due to the Sync 1.1 update, Bluesky PBC goes into more detail in a blog post what this entails.

And the updates regarding clients and AppViews:

• Two clients now support the ability for users to set their own AppView, Deer and TOKIMEKI.
• AppViewLite is another AppView for Bluesky that has been around for a while, that focuses on being cheap to run. It also heavily optimises for network data storage, with creator Alnkq running AppViewLite that contains full network data on a cheap 10 year old machine. So far, AppViewLite only worked with a custom frontend. An update this week now make it possible to use AppViewLite in combination with other clients.

Some further thoughts:

• The way ATProto works, is that it takes the software that runs a social network and splits it up into separate components, with each of those components being able to be run independently. This has made self-hosting any component possible since the beginning of the network opening up. But to tak advantage of this, and get to a state of full independence, it means running multiple pieces of software. This has created a bit of a catch-22 in the ecosystem: you could run your own relay, but without another independent AppView to take advantage of this, it is not super useful. You could run your own (focused on the Bluesky lexicon) AppView, but without a client that allows you to set your own AppView it is not particularly useful either. What happened now in the last weeks is that all these individual pieces are starting to come together. With Deer allowing you to set your own custom AppView, there is now a use to actually run your own AppView. Which in turn also gives more purpose to running your own relay.
• For building features in a Bluesky client that Bluesky itself does not have, a different AppView is needed. Now that these are starting to become available, there is new space to experiment with clients that have features that Bluesky does not have. Deer has already started going in this direction by allowing people to set any account as a trusted verifier, for example.
• There has been skepticism around Bluesky PBC’s claims regarding decentralisation, especially from people within the ActivityPub community. Part of this distrust has come from people applying a mental framework of how ActivityPub works to how ATProto works. In this framework, Bluesky being decentralised would mean that there are other software platforms that are interoperable with the Bluesky lexicon. I’ll be writing more about those different mental frameworks, and how that relates to decentralisation later. But for now these developments strengthen the claims of Bluesky PBC around decentralisation and building a network that is ‘billionaire-proof’.

In Other News

at://2048 is the game of 2048, integrated with ATProto. 2048 is a sliding tile puzzle game where players combine numbered tiles to reach the 2048 tile, that has gotten popularity years ago and has been reimplemented a number of times. What makes the at://2048 version stand out is that the scores of the game are stored on your ATProto PDS. This creates new features and challenges: it gives the game a more social element, with features like leaderboards. It also creates a new challenge, of how to verify that a score on someone’s PDS is actually legit. at://2048 is experimenting with verified badges to authenticate if a score is legit. Integrating games with ATProto is one of the areas that is under-explored, and this reimplementation of 2048 is worth watching to get a sense of how the integration of games with ATProto will further develop.

Bluesky differs from other social networks in one significant way, namely that users blocking each other is public information. This creates new dynamics, from people being able to see who have blocked them, to leaderboards of the most blocked accounts on the network. A new paper, ‘Self-moderation in the decentralized era: decoding blocking behavior on Bluesky‘, takes advantages of data on blocks being public to study user behaviour. Some of their findings: “users who receive a high number of blocks exhibit distinctive behavioral traits that set them apart from the general user population. These patterns are not necessarily linked to toxicity or misinformation, indicating that block-worthy behavior is more nuanced and complex than traditional moderation markers might suggest. Second, these distinctive traits can be effectively encoded and leveraged by machine learning models, suggesting the feasibility of early-warning or flagging systems able to assist moderation teams by surfacing potentially problematic users even before issues escalate.”

Custom feed builder Graze is giving out 5 grants of 1k USD for other projects in the ATProto ecosystem. Explaining why the startup is giving out grants, Graze says: “First, we want to help accelerate growth in the ATProto / Bluesky ecosystem. Projects that help *others* are vital. Second, we want to empower communities to sustain themselves. Third, we want to help give people & orgs direct access to their audiences. Broadly, those are *our* goals as an org.”

Bluesky in the media

• Time Magazine talks with Bluesky CEO Jay Graber and COO Rose Wang after they both got recognised as rising leaders in the Asian Pacific Community by Gold House. On monetisation, Graber says “she’s considering subscription models or monetizing Bluesky’s marketplaces of custom tools, but no concrete plans have been set in motion.”
• Wired published an article on how digital archivists are racing to save Black History while the Trump administration is trying to erase it. Wired talks with Blacksky’s Rudy Fraser, who describes “Blacksky as a living archive. Currently its database holds 17 million posts from Black users over the last two years”.
• How the San Francisco Standard uses Graze to hone their social media strategy – Graze

ATProto tech news

• The two developers behind Git collaboration platform Tangled, the brothers Anirudh and Akshay Oppiliappan, gave an interview on the devtools.fm podcast about Tangled. The platform also got various feature updates this week, and customisable profiles.
• Graze has made their ATProto authentication tool open-source and available for everyone to use. The ‘ATmosphere Authentication, Identity, and Permission Proxy‘ allows developers to easily add ATProto authentication to their software as a separate micro-service.
• WhiteBreeze is a self-hostable frontend for WhiteWind, allowing people to build their own blog on ATProto.
• ATProto Migrator is a tool to migrate your ATProto account to a different PDS. It does so via a web application, without people having to touch the Command Line Interface (CLI). This makes account migration more accessible, as other tools until now (such as goat by Bluesky engineer Bryan Newbold) require people to use the CLI.
• Flashes is a Bluesky client focused on images, and they are experimenting with some new ways to deal with the limitations that come from using Bluesky’s data. A Bluesky post can contain a maximum of 4 images and 300 characters. Flashes has upgraded that limit to 900 characters and 12 images. It works by actually creating 3 separate Bluesky posts in a thread, and displaying this as a single post in the Flashes app.
• A guide on Publishing ATProto Lexicons.

That’s all for this week, thanks for reading! If you want more analysis, you can subscribe to my newsletter. Every week you get an update with all this week’s articles, as well as extra analysis not published anywhere else. You can subscribe below, and follow this blog @fediversereport.com and my personal account @laurenshof.online on Bluesky.

#bluesky

https://fediversereport.com/bluesky-report-115/

#Privacy & #DataProtection picks of the day:

➡️ @CryptPad - Privacy-friendly FOSS online office suite (🇺🇳 UN recently started using it!)

➡️ @cryptomator - Lets you add E2E encrypted folder to any online cloud

➡️ @ToSDRTerms of Service, Didn't Read - Summarising small print of online services, grades privacy-friendliness

➡️ @librewolf - Web browser emphasising privacy, forked from Firefox

➡️ @briarBriar Project - Messenger app designed for maximum privacy

➡️ @privacyint@mastodon.xyzPrivacy International (main) & @privacyint@media.privacyinternational.orgPI Media (videos) - NGO campaigning for privacy

🧵 1/6

#SouthCarolina picks of the day (continued):

🌤️ Weather accounts for South Carolina:
@aiken__south_carolinaAiken - South Carolina - FediMeteo
@anderson__south_carolinaAnderson - South Carolina - FediMeteo
@beaufort__south_carolinaBeaufort - South Carolina - FediMeteo
@charleston__south_carolinaCharleston - South Carolina - FediMeteo
@columbia__south_carolinaColumbia - South Carolina - FediMeteo
@conway__south_carolinaConway - South Carolina - FediMeteo
@easley__south_carolinaEasley - South Carolina - FediMeteo
@florence__south_carolinaFlorence - South Carolina - FediMeteo
@goose_creek__south_carolinaGoose Creek - South Carolina - FediMeteo
@greenville__south_carolinaGreenville - South Carolina - FediMeteo
@greenwood__south_carolinaGreenwood - South Carolina - FediMeteo
@greer__south_carolinaGreer - South Carolina - FediMeteo
@hilton_head_island__south_carolinaHilton Head Island - South Carolina - FediMeteo
@lexington__south_carolinaLexington - South Carolina - FediMeteo
@mauldin__south_carolinaMauldin - South Carolina - FediMeteo

2/4

#SouthCarolina picks of the day (continued):

🌤️ Weather accounts for South Carolina (continued):
@mount_pleasant__south_carolinaMount Pleasant - South Carolina - FediMeteo
@myrtle_beach__south_carolinaMyrtle Beach - South Carolina - FediMeteo
@newberry__south_carolinaNewberry - South Carolina - FediMeteo
@north_augusta__south_carolinaNorth Augusta - South Carolina - FediMeteo
@north_charleston__south_carolinaNorth Charleston - South Carolina - FediMeteo
@orangeburg__south_carolinaOrangeburg - South Carolina - FediMeteo
@rock_hill__south_carolinaRock Hill - South Carolina - FediMeteo
@spartanburg__south_carolinaSpartanburg - South Carolina - FediMeteo
@summerville__south_carolinaSummerville - South Carolina - FediMeteo
@sumter__south_carolinaSumter - South Carolina - FediMeteo

You can find lots of Fediverse weather accounts for locations around the world at https://fedimeteo.com

3/4

I just brought down two bags of laundry to the basement, after cleaning the bathroom and other chores.
A month ago I used to grunt when carrying one bag of laundry to the basement, not able to do anything else, feeling pain everywhere.
It’s the little moments of independence that are huge!
#fitness

#Privacy & #DataProtection picks of the day:

➡️ @CryptPad - Privacy-friendly FOSS online office suite (🇺🇳 UN recently started using it!)

➡️ @cryptomator - Lets you add E2E encrypted folder to any online cloud

➡️ @ToSDRTerms of Service, Didn't Read - Summarising small print of online services, grades privacy-friendliness

➡️ @librewolf - Web browser emphasising privacy, forked from Firefox

➡️ @briarBriar Project - Messenger app designed for maximum privacy

➡️ @privacyint@mastodon.xyzPrivacy International (main) & @privacyint@media.privacyinternational.orgPI Media (videos) - NGO campaigning for privacy

🧵 1/6

@stefanoStefano Marinelli 😉 And the fun fact is that these tiny surfaces actually didn‘t narrow my mind, but proved to be a window to the whole world, interesting people, new learnings and an open mind. 🤗

@alisynthesisAlison Wilder

AIMindUpdate News!
🚀 Level up your JavaScript game! Node.js 24 boosts performance with the V8 engine & unlocks WebAssembly's potential.#Nodejs #JavaScript #WebAssembly

Click here↓↓↓
https://aimindupdate.com/2025/05/08/node-js-24-unleashing-javascript-and-webassembly-power

I'm trying to source the origin of "The web will always win" quote.

Search is bringing very few direct quotes. People say @davewDave Winer ☕️ but the post linked to about Apps, doesn't directly say it, only implies the phrase. The next earliest is @shanselmanScott Hanselman 👸🏽🐝🌮

@imdavidpierceDavid Pierce Its dramatically under-reported that the newly federated forum software #nodebb went from zero to 2.7 million federated users, and jumped. tobe the 2nd biggest platform on #ActivityPub after Mastodon shortly after launch..

https://fedidb.com/software?software=nodebb

How to Host Your Own #Mastodon Server on a #VPS (5 Minute Quick-Start Guide)

This article provides a guide for how to host your own Mastodon server on a VPS.

Running your own Mastodon server on a VPS is an excellent way to enjoy an efficient and secure Mastodon experience.
What is Mastodon?
Mastodon is a #decentralized social media platform that enables users to post ...
Continued 👉 https://blog.radwebhosting.com/how-to-host-your-own-mastodon-server-on-a-vps/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=ReviveOldPost #selfhosted #installguide #activitypub #rubyonrails #rubygems #selfhosting

Pope Leo XIV: ‘There Couldn’t Be A Better Time To Get The Fuck Out Of America Forever’

가톨릭 사제가 woke해봤자 얼마나 woke하겠으며 맑시스트래봤자 얼마나 맑시스트겠느냐마는 로라 루머가 저렇게 부르면 일단 사람이기는 한 것으로 추정 가능

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:2rrp7amblhg3xoly5n5huiqv/post/3lookqrtnrs2y

Reminder that wellness grifters like Trump’s new Surgeon General Casey Means spread misinformation about vaccines and health because it is extremely profitable for them to do so.

I am glad they announced the new pope but I think this ancient ritual of making us find the pope in the pizza is too obscure for modern tastes

You can help the #Fediverse grow by simply leaving a nice rating on the official and non-official apps for example! @Mastodon

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/mastodon/id1571998974

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.joinmastodon.android

See if you can spot mine!😸♥️

@nuintariThe Psychotic Network Ferret some light astigmatism here, too

$100K/day cloud bill isn't a Bug – it's by Design https://lobste.rs/s/rt7mc8 #devops #scaling
https://old.reddit.com/r/aethernet/comments/1khyt39/100kday_cloud_bill_isnt_a_bug_its_by_design

@nuintariThe Psychotic Network Ferret The usual process is that. I was lucky that the ophthalmologist realized that the type of problem I had, if properly corrected, would disappear with adolescence. I wore glasses from the age of 5 to 15, then I took them off. I'm always wearing sunglasses when sunny (since my eyes are sensitive), and I still kept a slight correction for reading or using the computer. The last ophthalmologist, in my opinion, overdid it a bit. The result was glasses that are too strong, which work well only up to about half a meter of distance. They’re fine for a laptop, but not for a desktop.

"I highly recommend using configuration management tools like Ansible or Puppet. They let you deploy outages faster and with less effort."

Just finished the DNS chapter of "Networking for System Administrators." Four chapters left to go! If you have any interest in sponsoring, act quick. https://www.tiltedwindmillpress.com/product/n4sa2e-sponsor/

Another look into PostgreSQL CTE materialization and non-idempotent subqueries https://lobste.rs/s/xev3l9 #databases
https://www.shayon.dev/post/2025/124/another-look-into-postgresql-cte-materialization-and-non-idempotent-subqueries/

BASED.

Ken Turner, 98, fought fascism in WWII. And now he’s back to fight fascism again

Tank vs. Tesla

via Led by Donkeys

@nuintariThe Psychotic Network Ferret I used to wear similar glasses as a kid. Luckily, problems almost disappeared growing up.

Tariffs just got real: our first $36K bill with 125% + 20% + 25% markup hits hard 💸. These are upfront costs - due before selling a single unit - causing serious cash flow strain, price increases, read more! 📦 http://adafruit.com/tariffbill

#tariffs

3 THINGS I'm grateful for when it comes to the #Fediverse:

1: I (almost) never see any AI slop. I'm subscribed to @404mediaco404 Media and I'm constantly horrified by their articles on AI slop - so common on Meta platforms. Not here. So #ThankYouFedi.

2: I'm never force-fed content by people I don't follow – so common in other places where algorithms rule. My time & attention are treated with RESPECT.

3: People here protect the privacy of children / don't post their pics. Consent is BIG. #ThankYouFedi

Haskell Weekly Issue 471

https://haskellweekly.news/issue/471.html

Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://haskellweekly.news/issue/471.html

#haskell #programming

報告できたの知らなかった…！

「Firefox 138」のリリースノートにない日本人にとって重要な変更とは？ - やじうまの杜 - 窓の杜

https://forest.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/serial/yajiuma/2012339.html

Reservoir Sampling

Link: https://samwho.dev/reservoir-sampling/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43928315

From: Steve Jobs. "Great idea, thank you."

Link: https://blog.hayman.net/2025/05/06/from-steve-jobs-great-idea.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43929724

Lately, I’ve realized I hardly use my desktop anymore. After a while, it just started to strain my eyes - almost made me feel nauseous. I kept blaming the monitor or the fonts, thinking "yeah, I’ll tweak that soon".
Meanwhile, no problem at all on the laptop.

Then, just now, I had a sudden flash of insight. I took off the glasses I usually wear (don’t really need them, but I put them on at the computer to "rest" my eyes a bit).
Surprise: no discomfort. So it’s either my eyesight evolving with age... or the eye doctor went a bit too enthusiastic with the prescription last year.
Sadly, both are true 😄

queer art myers briggs:

snake/mushroom
purple/TV static
wizard/cigarettes
space/tiny house

I re-implemented (parts of) Zig's std.MultiArrayList in Rust using facet and this example works.
Not even Miri complains.