bryan newbold (⛱️ sabbatical mode)

just that period reminder that content posted to Bluesky is public to *anybody*. if you don't want to see it used in a court of law, don't post it here.

and DMs here are not E2EE, they can be subpoened. a great use for bsky DMs is to share secure comms and move the conversation there.

if you want to chat about something sensitive, you can use Bluesky DMs to exchange contact info, but I would recommend moving the conversation to Signal.

Bluesky DMs are private, but they are not (yet) E2EE. Signal is hardened, focused, and does privacy/security best.

as a reminder: bluesky (the app) has a broad set of user interactions controls.

beyond blocking and block lists, we have features to control who can reply, mention, and quote-post accounts

Bluesky @bsky.app

Quick Tip: You can control who replies to your post on Bluesky. Just tap the 🌐 icon on your post to choose: everyone, followers, people you follow, mentioned users - or turn off replies entirely ✨

really glad @stf.jus.br set up a domain handle!

encourage other government agencies and officials to do the same. both as verification+trust signal, and for autonomy+control.

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I have made decisions, and made mistakes.

those have caused harm to real people, including Black folks, including really great+knowledgeable Black folks who supported Bluesky.

I'm sorry. feel pretty bad about it. it sucks.

re/earning their trust, and everybody else's trust, will be hard.

excited to share that we are following through on our earlier commitments and putting together an independent+neutral organization to house the DID PLC system, includes the directory service

Creating an Independent Public Ledger of Credentials (PLC) Directory Organization | Bluesky

The Bluesky Social app is built on an open network protocol that refers to each user by a unique Decentralized Identifier, or DID (a W3C standard). The most popular supported DID method was developed ...

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as control of Twitter has become more openly partisan, now is a great time to encourage municipal and regional govt and civic comms teams to move, or at least provide alternatives!

public transit, parks, libraries, museums, highway, utilities, weather, emergency, schools, etc

network activity is way up today, presumably driven by ICE shooting Alex Pretti in Minneapolis.

this hasn't been showing up in Bluesky Trending Topics. that is not intentional, and we are still trying to debug why it hasn't.

👩‍💻 ¡atproto devs! 🧑‍💻

just in time for the weekend: our protocol roadmap for the first half of 2025.

we got auth scopes, we got merkle tree inversions, we got deprecations, we got balmy spring weather and long walks in the forest. check it out!

2025 Protocol Roadmap (Spring and Summer) | Bluesky

Join the Github discussion here.

social media is the last greyhound bus of the night from Las Vegas back to Los Angeles

this year is going to be a real one, isn't it

have said it before and will say it again:

Bluesky Chat/DMs are not E2EE. don't put anything sensitive in there you wouldn't want rando law enforcement to pore over.

use it to exchange Signal contact info. consider "disappearing messages". do it by habit, get your friends+fam to also.

a tsunami of tsunami posts

"Car Talk" but for servers or web services that have been running for 10+ years

"ah! Django 0.96 pre-magic-removal, Python 2.6. what a great era of computing!"

devs! want to build something on #atproto but not sure where to start?

check out this "Call for Projects" with a bunch of ideas, ranging from protocol frameworks, to entire apps, to bots

wrote up a reply to @dustyweb.bsky.social's "How decentralized is Bluesky really" blog post

Reply on Bluesky and Decentralization | bryan newbold

This is a reply to Christine Lemmer-Webber's thoughtful (and widely read) "How decentralized is Bluesky really?" blog post. I am so happy and grateful that Christine took the time to write up her tho...

it was DNS

hello new and returning bsky users!

one of the things we have been working on recently is making it easier to build and log in to other apps, clients, and toys. here are a few examples 🧵

to sincere post a bit:

the ability to receive important timely updates like this one, from regional govt and institutions like this over an open protocol (vs closed/proprietary platforms) is a huge part of why I work on AT

pretty huge spike in atproto firehose during Bad Bunny superbowl half-time show; much larger than overall superbowl coverage.

also more 2x API request rate on bsky services

42 days of bluesky remain.
we will be shutting everything down for a couple months when factorio 2.0 is released

We got a blog post out summarizing our launch of OAuth for AT Protocol, and what work remains. This has been a huge project led by @matthieu.bsky.team with input from a bunch of standards folks and devs.

Big milestone for building all sorts of clients, apps, and integrations on atproto.

OAuth for AT Protocol | Bluesky

We are very happy to release the initial specification of OAuth for AT Protocol! This is expected to be the primary authentication and authorization system between atproto client apps and PDS instance...

it's never fun being up all night trying to keep systems online, but it is great to see co-workers shine and just bulldoze through it.

we are not fully out of the woods on this incident, and it will probably be a while before there is any sort of post-mortem.

but not, it's not from vibe coding.