Notices by Heath Stewart (heaths@fosstodon.org)

@jwildeboer @pravee_n looks like you can use the `did:web` method as described in https://atproto.com/specs/did#blessed-did-methods

To clarify: not trying to push anyone anywhere. 🙂 This just seems like a great exploration of the protocol. I skimmed the docs earlier - I’m really liking the Labeler functionality - but this thread has convinced me to read more thoroughly.

@jwildeboer @pravee_n my understanding was that anyone *could* run a relay, but even their docs admit it’s a ton of bandwidth and implies there’s not much incentive to do so. So maybe they are practically running all the relays and that makes them practically centralized.

Still, it seems to solve for the problem of the Mastodon effect where sites are getting DOS’d by instances requesting data for thumbnails.

Personally, I see pros and cons. To each their own, though.

@pravee_n @jwildeboer you can. They have docs on it: https://docs.bsky.app/docs/advanced-guides/federation-architecture#self-hosting

Seems pretty easy. Already several other PDSes out there e.g., letting people make custom feeds using hashtags, LLMs, whatever to drive a bespoke algorithm.

I’ve been comparing services (been here for a couple years) for about a week. There are pros and cons to both.

@georgetakei In some older cars, that also counted as a workout!

@chas I think you just described the state of about every languages' de facto package manager.

@chas That, and it seems a lot of people like to start a hobby project to learn a language or framework, publish it "just in case others find it useful", then never really maintain it. Seems at least once a week I see at least one person talk about learning rust or go by writing a new web framework.

Fine, but don't publish it. Or hack on an existing one and benefit from their idiomatic experience.

@chas Increased discovery times - both to pull indexes and wade through search results - exhaustion of ideal names (my org is dealing with this now), increased storage and bandwidth costs, etc. Why not leave it on GitHub, Gitea, or wherever? It's idiomatic for go and easy for rust with little to no downside for small projects.

@chas Yes, to crates.io, npmjs.org, etc. At least go doesn't create any issues apart from potentially slowing searches for suitable dependencies.

Sorry for the confusion.