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Samuel@samuel.fm· 26 Aug 2025atproto is like if you could post tweets to your own website and then twitter would be able to draw in all the tweets from across the web into a normal-looking social app
Samuel@samuel.fm· 26 Aug 2025
GraceDo nostr next
3 9Samuelunfortunately I don't know it well enough to do a pithy scathing takedown :(
something something it's easy to make a simple spec when you don't specify anything
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pennynostr is like sending undefined JSON objects along with 20 “GM”s and 20 sats for gas to a server that may or may not understand what the object is
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kilroy normal lengthnostr is like if you could send tweets into the torment nexus and they stay there forever
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Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chiefdespite already knowing this somehow i now understand activitypub so much more
1 3Samuelit took me 2 years to write these posts
1 4Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chiefkilling it
Caroline Dracula 🇵🇸okay but where do “my” tweets “live”?
1 1Samuelyou use bluesky’s hosting — they live in here: porcini.us-east.host.bsky.network
but you could very easily host them yourself
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Octothorpes Protocolkinda sounds more like us...
1 1Samuelha nice, looks like you're taking it far more literally
1 2Octothorpes Protocolyeah our ELI5 is "what if yr website IS the data source and every page had its own API". We had a microblogging demo on Glitch which we haven't reposted since Glitch went down, but our working title for microblogs on OP was "oofs" since it's another synonym for hashtag. "Tag me in yr oof!"
1 2Octothorpes ProtocolOk so it took us a minute but here's a full ATProto integration demo, featuring your post! bsky.app/profile/octo...
Octothorpes Protocol@octothorp.es· 2 AprOur last post was posted as part of our first #ATProto integration demo, which also sent it to @leaflet.pub. Check out the video and the canonical webpage for more:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFBX... and demo.ideastore.dev/publish-to-at #octothorpes joins the #atmosphere
OP and ATProto integration preview
YouTube video by Ním Daghlian
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Josh GoldbergI *love* this explanation, thank you!!
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Felonious MonkSo...Reader for microblogging?
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Alvar Lagerlöfbig vacuum energy
Fruity Koala 🎄The one part I don’t understand with ATProto is how apps pull in self-hosted posts.
Are they randomly scouring the web for hosts? Once they’ve found one do they run a sync every so often? Or is it more of a push from the host itself?
Banda BassottiYou know that bit where you scrape and clone other websites to make it look like your new one has people on it?
Well what if those people were actually on it, but not really, but really?
MetaflameI always imagine it as each user having a public pinboard behind locked glass at their living place
Then, relays go around all the apartment complexes and cities they know & gather up everything that people put on their pinboards, and anyone else can take a look whenever they want to as well