What is Hackers' Pub?

Hackers' Pub is a place for software engineers to share their knowledge and experience with each other. It's also an ActivityPub-enabled social network, so you can follow your favorite hackers in the fediverse and get their latest posts in your feed.

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What's actually happening right now is the Bluesky *website* is broken but the *phone app* still works. I propose the following theory:

Mastodon is "horizontally decentralized"; this means if one part of the network goes down the other parts continue working.

Bluesky is "vertically decentralized"; they separated each tech stack component into a slice that can be hosted by a different company. This means if any part of the network goes down they ALL stop working, because the layers interconnect

Here is the exciting thing about "vertical decentralization", Bluesky's core innovation: since your PDS and your "app view" can be hosted by two different entities, this means the pool of people who can make Bluesky stop working for you can be taken to a theoretical maximum. For example with Mastodon, if Eugen screws up my app doesn't work. But with Bluesky, since I self-host my PDS, if *either* I *or* Bluesky mess up, it doesn't work! *Everybody* must have a good day *at once* or there's no app

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What's actually happening right now is the Bluesky *website* is broken but the *phone app* still works. I propose the following theory:

Mastodon is "horizontally decentralized"; this means if one part of the network goes down the other parts continue working.

Bluesky is "vertically decentralized"; they separated each tech stack component into a slice that can be hosted by a different company. This means if any part of the network goes down they ALL stop working, because the layers interconnect

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Hello fediverse!
I guess a short is due: I am an architect and academic trying to avoid other social media and eager to see the fediverse grow. I wish all universities would have their own instances but they don't (yet), so thanks a lot to the @FediverseFoundation for hosting me.
I teach , and but I am also engaged in and .
I will probably post about all this and many other random topics in both English and German, sometimes Spanish, eventually Italian. You can filter languages in your preferences in case you don't want a Babel in your timeline.
Give me some time to get started and see you out there in the 'verse!

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I think this post by mcc is actually a great example of why the atproto dev community is now starting to move in the direction that 'decentralisation' is not a helpful term anymore.

Like, the problem of Bluesky that mcc touches upon is very real, and a significant point of critique of the network

But a network that can separate a fullstack server into separate components that can be operated by different actors is more decentralised in this specific aspect than a network that cant

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What's actually happening right now is the Bluesky *website* is broken but the *phone app* still works. I propose the following theory:

Mastodon is "horizontally decentralized"; this means if one part of the network goes down the other parts continue working.

Bluesky is "vertically decentralized"; they separated each tech stack component into a slice that can be hosted by a different company. This means if any part of the network goes down they ALL stop working, because the layers interconnect

Here is the exciting thing about "vertical decentralization", Bluesky's core innovation: since your PDS and your "app view" can be hosted by two different entities, this means the pool of people who can make Bluesky stop working for you can be taken to a theoretical maximum. For example with Mastodon, if Eugen screws up my app doesn't work. But with Bluesky, since I self-host my PDS, if *either* I *or* Bluesky mess up, it doesn't work! *Everybody* must have a good day *at once* or there's no app
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RE: mastodon.social/@reiver/114472

An update on FinalForm — the short-form series I am working on with @Soel79 and @ShinComicsShin

Here is a tentative STORY REEL for the first 26 second of episode 1.

A STORY REEL uses temporary images (usually from the story-board), to give you the feel for the episode BEFORE you create the final images and animations

These story-board images were drawn by @Soel79

You can tell that this kaiju changed since the story-board was created

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5.9.0 – Easier Onboarding for Your Fediverse Experience

ActivityPub for WordPress @activitypub.blog@activitypub.blog

Getting started with ActivityPub on WordPress just got a lot easier. A new guided onboarding experience is now part of the plugin, designed to help you configure key settings and understand how your site connects to the Fediverse—from the moment you activate it. Whether you're new to ActivityPub or just setting things up again, the onboarding flow helps you make informed choices around visibility, content formatting, and profile setup. It’s built to give you confidence that your […]

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