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not the OP, but

i was going to point to the did:plc thing they made up and went with. but since the last time i looked, it looks like they support (and prefer) did:web, so that's sorted out.

the "wtf" i have is more to do with actually running a community with atproto. you need a central crawler service that knows about all the PDSes you want to be friends with (this is presumably why you need to sign up in their discord right now, they gotta tell their crawler to look at your PDS)

but i think the crawler has to grab the entire PDS for everyone it knows about? if you want a large community, it seems pretty resource-intensive since the ceiling is "infinity posts". bsky's open source code suggests they have chosen not to deal with this problem.

with most AP services (e.g. mastodon), you can prune the data and the only consequence is "you don't get full text search for super old posts received from other services that we pruned", so there are ways to limit the cost other than "limit the number of users in our community".

but this may just be an implementation detail and not an issue with atproto, e.g. git shallow clones are a thing, and the PDS is also storing a big merkel tree. i am not sure if the indexer relies on having the complete history or not (since you do need it for certain operations). bsky's own code just shrugging suggests maybe limiting it is challenging, i dunno.

the shitcoin-obsessed CEO is the problem

Yeah, their KS goal being US$100k is a low budget for something they're expecting to take two years.

If I'm running a tiny little single-user instance on a potato and my post goes to the mastodon.social federated feed, it would be impolite for them to direct 20,000 requests at my potato all at once. Instead, their servers grabs one copy and serves it to their users. If they're set up for 20k eyeballs online at once, they've got capacity to serve them all the photo.

Mastodon has a configurable clean-up period for cached media so you don't use infinite disk. That gives a bad actor an easy way to robustly host images for a couple days: post it, let it federate out, and then take your server down. Everyone else is now doing crimes for you, and cleaning it up is a reactive process by dozens of server admins.

it was never owned by the church.

the guy who bought it off the original founders was a scientologist and typical C-suite scumbag.

the only cult influencing neopets was capitalism. who doesn’t love shoving two ads in every hole.

The guy that bought it is the one who ran the neopets metaverse thing. So it sounds a little dubious.

I've been spectating games all day. 8v8 has so much going on and is a ton of fun to watch.

It looks like ncsoft's attorney filed a trademark on Secrets of the Obscure in March using a shell company called Secret River Enterprises. It's the same attorney that did other GW2 trademarks. They also did not prefix the trademark with "GUILD WARS 2: " like the other expansions.

So I don't think it's a placeholder, unless they're really committed to fucking with us.

"Secret River" and the "Secrets of the Obscure" give me some River of Soul vibes...are we perhaps going to the Underworld? It's supposed to be under new [demonic] management now, right? And we just had to deal with a demon in Gyala Delve...

Email does rely on IP reputation as a major component in deciding if something is spam. The system has matured to a point where it works fairly well and transparently ... but the consequence has been you can't reliably send from an IP block unless somebody is very actively handling abuse and working with the reputation services to keep their IP space in the internet's good graces.

But: I wouldn't want to allowlist based just on one reputation service. I've got some ideas on how to handle spam for my instances involving a few different datapoints. This could be useful as one, if it ends up with enough data.

Titan's Staircase doesn't seem to have enough people? Yesterday, we were outnumbered on EB at several points during the afternoon & early evening in NA timezones.

I've seen that in some of the previous betas too. It's not an encouraging sign.

There were plenty of good fights though!

Lookin 🔥

It's been a while since I've done in person. I had a laptop for my notes and GM resources, and I'd just throw stuff up on Roll20 with second monitor facing the players. We had a tablet logged in to Roll20 to pass around if somebody wanted to move themselves, measure distance, or review one of the handouts.

It worked reasonably well without needing everyone to hide behind their laptops.