Founding Engineer at @blackskyweb.xyz I like to understand things. I like to make things. The meaning of life — first survive, then reproduce 🌞 Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good (enough) 📍 Vancouver 🌐 https://reiver.link Open Social Webhttps://blacksky.community/profile/reiver.myatproto.socialhttps://blacksky.community/profile/reiver.myatproto.social/post/3mykpgg6ihc2tI would very much like ATProto app.bsky.actor.profile record to have a 'description' longer than 256 graphemes. I.e., for bios in ATmosphere profiles to be longer than 256 graphemes.23 Oct 2026 17:31 +0000at://did:plc:scewmn2pl3oz36mxme2b6czz/app.bsky.feed.post/3mykpgg6ihc2thttps://blacksky.community/profile/reiver.myatproto.social/post/3mykoeor2bs2tThis isn't mentioned in that article, but.... Much of the pre-Web Internet was also decentralized. Including the social media protocols of the pre-Web Internet. [contains quote post or other embedded content]23 Oct 2026 17:12 +0000at://did:plc:scewmn2pl3oz36mxme2b6czz/app.bsky.feed.post/3mykoeor2bs2thttps://blacksky.community/profile/reiver.myatproto.social/post/3mykobnxm4k2t"web1 was decentralized, web2 centralized everything into platforms, and that web3 will decentralize everything again. web3 should give us the richness of web2, but decentralized" https://moxie.org/2022/01/07/web3-first-impressions.html23 Oct 2026 17:10 +0000at://did:plc:scewmn2pl3oz36mxme2b6czz/app.bsky.feed.post/3mykobnxm4k2thttps://blacksky.community/profile/reiver.myatproto.social/post/3mykj7qkles2qI am now reiver.myatproto.social on a Blacksky PDS. I was reiver.bsky.social on a Bluesky PDS. #BlackskyAlgorithms [contains quote post or other embedded content]23 Oct 2026 15:40 +0000at://did:plc:scewmn2pl3oz36mxme2b6czz/app.bsky.feed.post/3mykj7qkles2qhttps://blacksky.community/profile/reiver.myatproto.social/post/3mykfgsjp6c2zI am about to move my PDS from Bluesky to Blacksky. Using move.blacksky.community Hopefully everything goes smoothly. #BlackskyAlgorithms https://move.blacksky.community/23 Oct 2026 14:32 +0000at://did:plc:scewmn2pl3oz36mxme2b6czz/app.bsky.feed.post/3mykfgsjp6c2zhttps://blacksky.community/profile/reiver.myatproto.social/post/3myhtwlaqqc2xI get the feeling that the world today underestimates the importance of PHP. The early Web was built on PHP. Even today, about 72% of the Web seems to run on PHP. (And, there are reasons why PHP got popular in the late 1990s — and stayed popular for a long time: debugging speed.) [contains quote post or other embedded content]22 Oct 2026 14:13 +0000at://did:plc:scewmn2pl3oz36mxme2b6czz/app.bsky.feed.post/3myhtwlaqqc2xhttps://blacksky.community/profile/reiver.myatproto.social/post/3myht6pfvtk2xFTP vs FTPS (ie, secure FTP) HTTP vs HTTPS (ie, secure HTTP) IMAP vs IMAPS (ie, secure IMAP) IRC vs IRCS (ie, secure IRC) POP3 vs POP3S (ie, secure POP3) SIP vs SIPS (ie, secure SIP) SMTP vs SMTPS (ie, secure SMTP) WS cs WSS (ie, secure WS) However: AT vs ATS (ie, permissioned data spaces)22 Oct 2026 14:00 +0000at://did:plc:scewmn2pl3oz36mxme2b6czz/app.bsky.feed.post/3myht6pfvtk2xhttps://blacksky.community/profile/reiver.myatproto.social/post/3myhramdsxc2e"[sync] notifications are routed through the space owner" dholms.leaflet.pub/3mhj6bcqats2o https://dholms.leaflet.pub/3mhj6bcqats2o22 Oct 2026 13:25 +0000at://did:plc:scewmn2pl3oz36mxme2b6czz/app.bsky.feed.post/3myhramdsxc2ehttps://blacksky.community/profile/reiver.myatproto.social/post/3myhqchb7s22e1/ "Write enforcement is ultimately handled by readers of the [permissioned] space. Any user can purport to write to a space on their PDS, but readers of the space compare incoming records against the member list and use that to define the real content perimeter." dholms.leaflet.pub/3mhj6bcqats2o https://dholms.leaflet.pub/3mhj6bcqats2o22 Oct 2026 13:08 +0000at://did:plc:scewmn2pl3oz36mxme2b6czz/app.bsky.feed.post/3myhqchb7s22ehttps://blacksky.community/profile/reiver.myatproto.social/post/3myhps2krts2e"the notion of a space and the interface for services that host a [permissioned data] space is defined at the protocol level and not inherently linked to the PDS. Any service may create and host a space if it supports the required APIs." dholms.leaflet.pub/3mhj6bcqats2o https://dholms.leaflet.pub/3mhj6bcqats2o22 Oct 2026 12:59 +0000at://did:plc:scewmn2pl3oz36mxme2b6czz/app.bsky.feed.post/3myhps2krts2ehttps://blacksky.community/profile/reiver.myatproto.social/post/3myg52vflts221/ Regarding: "a bucket doesn’t necessarily imply a physical container sitting on one PDS" dholms.leaflet.pub/3mfrsbcn2gk2a I have seen this play out before with another protocol. ... https://dholms.leaflet.pub/3mfrsbcn2gk2a21 Oct 2026 21:52 +0000at://did:plc:scewmn2pl3oz36mxme2b6czz/app.bsky.feed.post/3myg52vflts22https://blacksky.community/profile/reiver.myatproto.social/post/3myfky4qz6c2jAm I understanding this accurately? Is there no protocol level way for someone to switch from a did:plc to a did:web ? For example, a did:plc document cannot specify that a person is now at a new DID? (Such as a did:web.)21 Oct 2026 16:28 +0000at://did:plc:scewmn2pl3oz36mxme2b6czz/app.bsky.feed.post/3myfky4qz6c2jhttps://blacksky.community/profile/reiver.myatproto.social/post/3myfgl6vfks2f@bmann.ca Do you happen to know if there is any childcare in or near ATmosphereConf 2027?21 Oct 2026 15:09 +0000at://did:plc:scewmn2pl3oz36mxme2b6czz/app.bsky.feed.post/3myfgl6vfks2fhttps://blacksky.community/profile/reiver.myatproto.social/post/3myfe7sxhcc2oI can confirm — the Blacksky mobile app does work on GrapheneOS. (I use GrapheneOS, and have the Blacksky mobile app working on it.) #BlackskyAlgorithms #GrapheneOS21 Oct 2026 14:27 +0000at://did:plc:scewmn2pl3oz36mxme2b6czz/app.bsky.feed.post/3myfe7sxhcc2o