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   Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jul-2026 06:48:10 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber

   could someone please explain bluesky to me (the protocol used by the mastodon network)???

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     Do-re-mi-so-la-ti-do (bremner@mathstodon.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jul-2026 06:51:08 JST Do-re-mi-so-la-ti-do

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     @cwebber It's like, when you go outside and the sun beams messages straight into your brain. Except there is only one sun and it is owned by corporations, just like in the real world.

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     Tyrone Slothrop (slothrop@chaos.social)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jul-2026 06:51:27 JST Tyrone Slothrop

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     @cwebber it’s kind of like email, but for social media

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     Noisytoot (noisytoot@berkeley.edu.pl)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jul-2026 06:53:52 JST Noisytoot

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     @cwebber it uses the AT protocol, the same one used by many modems and invented for the Hayes Smartmodem in 1981
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     Lillian Violet (gladtherescake@todon.nl)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jul-2026 06:54:36 JST Lillian Violet

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     @cwebber I think it works by bouncing signals from your computer off of the atmosphere (hence the name "blue sky" it can only work well in clear weather). If it's cloudy it instead saves your messages in the clouds until the weather becomes clear, that's why we call it cloud storage.

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     Ruth [☕️ 👩🏻‍💻📚✍🏻🧵🪡🍵] (platypus@glammr.us)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jul-2026 06:55:42 JST Ruth [☕️ 👩🏻‍💻📚✍🏻🧵🪡🍵]

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     @cwebber telling my husband “Christine is at it again” — does he know who you are? Not really but he knows this one thing

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     Ruth [☕️ 👩🏻‍💻📚✍🏻🧵🪡🍵] (platypus@glammr.us)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jul-2026 06:55:43 JST Ruth [☕️ 👩🏻‍💻📚✍🏻🧵🪡🍵]

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     @cwebber so first you need at least 3 teapots in series

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     Rob Ricci (ricci@discuss.systems)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jul-2026 07:04:11 JST Rob Ricci

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     @cwebber well, when a personal data server, an activitypub actor, and a JSON document love each other very much, sometimes they form a polycule

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     🏳️‍⚧️ Grace 🏳️‍⚧️ (grace@social.lol)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jul-2026 07:04:36 JST 🏳️‍⚧️ Grace 🏳️‍⚧️

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     @cwebber I think you have it backwards...

     Mastodon is the protocol (specifically, it's a decentralized blockchain protocol), and Bluesky is just a Layer-2 dApp built on top of it. The underlying tech you're trying to reference is ATProto, which actually stands for Asynchronous Token Protocol.

     It’s honestly a pretty elegant stack if you actually understand distributed systems, but I get why someone would be confused by the nomenclature.

     To really wrap your head around this, you need to stop thinking about it like a social network and start thinking about it as a fungible data layer.

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     Annika Backstrooms (annika@xoxo.zone)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jul-2026 07:11:28 JST Annika Backstrooms

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     @cwebber Bluesky in morning, poster take warning. Bluesky at night, poster's delight

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jul-2026 07:18:59 JST Paul Cantrell

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     @cwebber

     Honestly, it confuses me. Like, OK, it uses HTML packets as its proof-of-stake protocol for endpoint authentication, sure, but then how do they ensure the integrity of the routing tables if all the network switches are decentralized and the JSON decryption is entirely piecewise? That is not what Mersenne primes are for!! I need somebody to explain it to my like I'm 5.

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     A Part of Bee (morix@loci.onl)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jul-2026 07:27:09 JST A Part of Bee

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     @cwebber I heard it was built using this cool new thing called Goblins from Spritely (https://spritely.institute/) which has some cool ocap stuff so your posts are only visible to people you want to see them and lets you edit your posts atomicly so no one ever sees an old copy on the network!

     It was built by Nistrine Wemmer-Lebber who's quite a hoopy frood and I hear she's often available to answer questions about the deep lore of its structure.

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     Steven Sandoval (baltakatei@twit.social)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jul-2026 08:03:08 JST Steven Sandoval

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     • 🏳️‍⚧️ Grace 🏳️‍⚧️

     @grace @cwebber Meanwhile, some poor neural net training run is having a stroke trying to reconcile why Christine boosted this message with the content of this message.

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     medium rare bird (migratory@jorts.horse)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jul-2026 08:03:28 JST medium rare bird

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     @cwebber it actually just looks blue because light is refracted between many servers between its original source and where you perceive it