The firehose is an optimization. It’s powered by software called a relay. It costs about $20/month to run a relay which can run the entire firehose of 40M accounts and cache 2-4 days of data. 

Here’s a list of open to the public relays https://compare.hose.cam/ — lots of apps run them on their own internally. 

Great kick off for the blog, 
@chadfowler.com 

I was trying to think about how Regenerative Software might be the same or different than Malleable Software https://semble.so/profile/bmann.ca/collections/3m7did4t5f22x

I've decided they are close cousins of each other, but that Regenerative Software is more like the internals, and can apply to teams building software together, and even producing "apps" on the other side.

But that Malleable Software speaks to the dissolution of apps, and that the end user is directly connected to being able to work with it. Perhaps steps along the same transitions of substrates.

One more idea: actually allow for "thread embed" display mode -> being able to effectively unroll the thread of the original author, inline.

OK, I did a test publish. Confirming that it is a regular Bluesky post embed, and also confirming that this doesn't work in unpublished leaflets. I was trying to carefully click trying to find how to make it work.

Hey 
@schlage.town -- is the threads viewer embed live now? I don't see what kind of block type I need to make this work. Or, it doesn't work on unpublished previews?

Welcome to “I’m an independent software researcher” land. 

The joke related to this is that it’s code for underemployed. 

I also have trouble answering this right now. Mission wise, I might say I’m working on tools for human agency over technology.

But hey - you can literally practice different one liners for each person you meet.

Are you going to join us in Vancouver in March for ATmosphereConf? 

Yes. You are 100% correct on brew.

Was interesting to see brew mentioned in the not-a-distro called Workbench by Caligra 

https://semble.so/url?id=https://caligra.com/workbench/

Thank you for writing this Tessa. Very moving for me. I hope the community can help support you in what you’re doing - it’s important and your voice and experience are important and welcomed. 

Congrats on launch! 

That was me logged in, need to file that as feedback to the Leaflet team: that I can’t tell what account I’m logged in with. 

The AT Community Fund has to date done $2-5K and smaller in grants and is designed for things that can benefit the whole community, not app funding. 

A couple of other thoughts:

I would want to see users first. That’s the hard part!

Crowdfunding can work, any admin costs are just part of the calculation of using such a platform. You need an engaged community and the marketing of a raise is work itself that a project needs to have the right skill sets for.

You don’t need to figure it out up front, but having an idea of what the revenue model is going to be is important. 

Different types of funders are going to look for different things. A question I would ask is: what would make this your full time job? (I think 1/day week might be enough for code, but marketing and community work has to fit in too).

A lot of ATProto projects are in the same boat of very small numbers of users. Product adoption is the hard part!

Voted for footnotes for my tech blog. Image galleries for my personal blog. Smoke signals for my ATProto ;)

As mentioned - a PDS action should mostly only be for illegal content or infrastructure abuse. A user can backup and store rotation keys separately. 

I read the Japanese version. Thank you for sharing this!

Thanks for collecting these! Going off to make some Bandcamp purchases. 

Yeah I think doing a markdown renderer would be interesting - Ghost’s block editor has both HTML and Markdown blocks I think?

But also that needs a strong use case. 

Only one I can think of is an Obsidian plugin which publishes / syncs posts where the Leaflet content would just be one big Markdown block. 

Does Ghost actually use Article type? Which as AFAIK doesn’t display in Mastodon?

One note: I think the variable should be PDS_CRAWLERS, plural!

Leaving a comment!

Also should put in the transcript as content for video. I feel like Jerry actually sent me some that I totally forgot about. 

The graph is “just” because of the layout algorithm used! It’s super basic and not very good at all, basically hand rolled for Jekyll. 

Yes Cosmik intends to be broadly usable by all and then add some special features for academia. 

Hmm. Reaching out to beehiiv for ATProto integration?