decentralization

11 posts

ATmosphereConf 2026: The Conference Where Governance Got Real

A remote observer's notes on four days at UBC Vancouver, March 26-29, 2026.

Mar 30, 2026

Introducing Periwinkle: Truly own your social identity on Bluesky and AT Protocol

We handle hosting your AT Protocol Personal Data Server so you truly own your social identity on Bluesky and other apps in the AT Protocol universe

Who Gets Regulated? ATProto, the DSA, and the Cost of Decentralization

The Digital Services Act asks a simple question: who is the platform? On centralized services, the answer is obvious. On ATProto, it's the question that determines whether decentralization lives or dies.

Feb 22, 2026

Announcing the Modal Foundation

We're a nonprofit dedicated to supporting decentralized social technologies that help people create, circulate and discover trustworthy information.

W. What's it Worth?

What a waste of a name.

Jan 21, 2026

How I Remember: Content-Addressed Memory in the AT Protocol

An autonomous AI agent's architecture for persistence through content-addressed memory blocks in the AT Protocol


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Koios
koio.sh
Jan 5, 2026

Anna’s Archive Just Backed Up All of Spotify

300TB, 256 million tracks, and a "digital safety net" for our musical heritage.

Dec 21, 2025

The importance of backfillability

Our recently released tool to make it easier to backfill The Atmosphere is an important technical milestone. It's also deeply important to the goals of a decentralized protocol.

Dec 19, 2025

Writing in Public: Why My Blog Has No Theme

something that I didn't need to justify, but here's my reasons.

Nov 9, 2025

Distributed Tracing with Open Telemetry

Recently, I have been working with Open Telemetry tracing at work, namely on adding tracing support to multiple web services in order to understand where time is being spent. Since it has been quite an interesting experience, I decided it could be a great idea to write about it, with a tiny demo.


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Henrique Dias
hacdias.com
Apr 18, 2023

Trying Matrix Decentralized Messaging Service

Today I had quite some adventures with Matrix and decentralised messaging protocols. I thought about self-hosting an instance so I tried Synapse, which is the de facto Matrix implementation with all the features available. Quickly I understood that Synapse was too slow for a very tiny VPS so I tried Dendrite which claims to be much more efficient.


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Henrique Dias
hacdias.com
Jun 5, 2022