See, I told you I’d get tuckered out writing about vehicles and be back to protocols soon enough. “The internet is forever” is a great warning against the inability to unshare content, but completely irrelevant in regard to linkrot and long term preservation. Links I save or share here often are offline or …

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I’ve written a lot of longer blog posts lately, time to get back into the classic “Nate talks about the thing he just read about and finds neat.” So, without further ado, I just read about NMail (github) - and I think it’s neat. In fact, I think it’s actually one of the most interesting decentralized communication …

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Update 3/14/2026: I’ve updated the post to reflect that porting Nomadic Identities to Activity Pub is still ongoing. Shoutout to [email protected]. Also, less than 24 hours posting this, BlueSky CEO Jay Grabber has stepped down from her roll. A change in leadership may change the state of the platform, which may …

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As is customary on my microblogging posts, let’s get us started with an original meme. Also, if you’d like to read my previous Microblogging Protocols compared posts, you can read v1 here and v2 here. It’s been a little over a year since I made my updated microblogging protocols comparison. Since then a few things have …

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A based design that makes a web that’s true ICANNs and NATs embrace shall be no more Behind a Pi or in the cloud for you We use that tool be I2P or Tor Come join a world of speech that can flow free The words by truths of math they shall be bound A power built right in that’s DHT Identity by key pairs holds its ground …

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Update: September 20th, 2024: I was incorrect regarding AT’s (BlueSky) inability to fully delete things, the protocol DOES support fully deleting posts from the user’s repo and I’ve updated the post to reflect that. Read more. Big thanks to Ryan for providing the info. Also, on a less important update (in regards to …

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So after two very long posts, one complaining about web browsers and one comparing the three big non-centralized social media protocols, I thought about writing two shorter posts about random things (hats and making sour krout specifically). However, between then and now stuffs happened and I thought I would make an …

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Note: This post is out of date, here’s a more up to date version Update August 5th 2024 I have some good and bad news regarding this post. First, I made two mistakes. AT crawlers are not in fact crawlers, they are called relays. Also, shared inboxes are actually part of the Activity Pub W3C standard as apposed to hacky …

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Chances are if you’re here it’s through an RSS feed (or an RSS feed bridged to something else), so I probably don’t need to do too much of an introduction. Here’s a quick rundown if you’re unfamiliar. However, today I wanted to talk about RSS (as well as three other means of following content), how I’ve benefited from …

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I have recently been re-dipping my toes into Nostr (tried it a while back just to experiment with it but never really stuck around), and so far it’s become my preferred microblogging platform. There’s a handful of reasons surrounding that, both in the protocol itself and what’s being built up around it, and I think it …

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