A few years ago I wrote a series about taking back your privacy, starting with the humble password manager. That series was about defense: stopping other people from reading your stuff. This post is about something adjacent but different — ownership. Who...

Power asymmetries have consistently driven the pursuits of egalitarian ideals. Some of them had lasting consequences: Athenian democratic reforms, the Gracchi brother's land reforms in Ancient Rome, the Venetian republic, the Peasants revolt in the Middle ...

These days I largely stay out of conversations about ActivityPub and atproto. Folks i respect like @blaine.bsky.social and @thisismissem.social have asserted that over time the paths that ActivityPub and atproto take will converge. I think that arguing wi...

Hi. This one's aimed at my personal friends on this wonderful protocol. If you are an atproto dev or enthusiast, no new information will be presented here. If you are indeed a personal friend: I love you. I know I talk about the "AT Protocol" a lot. I am s...

We handle hosting your AT Protocol Personal Data Server so you truly own your social identity on Bluesky and other apps in the AT Protocol universe

We're a nonprofit dedicated to supporting decentralized social technologies that help people create, circulate and discover trustworthy information.

300TB, 256 million tracks, and a "digital safety net" for our musical heritage.

Our recently released tool to make it easier to backfill The Atmosphere is an important technical milestone. It's also deeply important to the goals of a decentralized protocol.

Recently, I have been working with Open Telemetry tracing at work, namely on adding tracing support to multiple web services in order to understand where time is being spent. Since it has been quite an interesting experience, I decided it could be a great ...

Today I had quite some adventures with Matrix and decentralised messaging protocols. I thought about self-hosting an instance so I tried Synapse, which is the de facto Matrix implementation with all the features available. Quickly I understood that Synapse...