Bailey Townsend

Hey y'all!

My name is Bailey, I'm an open source software developer who is very active in the AT Protocol community. Excited to be here to check out more about ActivityPub, but more importantly to make some new friends and talk about tech/software development!

A bit more about my work with atproto

• I manage a PDS at https://selfhosted.social
• I wrote a migration tool for accounts going between PDSs called https://pdsmoover.com
• I wrote a service that sits in front of a PDS to add 2FA (something y'all already smoking us on!)
• I am active in a few groups. https://npmx.dev as a core team member and a contractor with eurosky.social

Excited to be here and happy to answer any questions anyone has about AT Protocol and just talk software!

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@baileytownsend/116952597706316959 I want to follow this up with an AMAA (ask me anything #atproto!) I've done a few of these on #bluesky and thought it might be fun to do one here! I don't believe in dumb questions, so please ask me any you may have! Happy to answer anything, or at least hopefully point you in the right direction! Feel free to reply your questions to this post. Also feel free to even ask me stuff like "Is atproto really #decentralized", "Aren't relays/PDS expensive?", "What do migrations look like there?", etc. Nothing is off the table, and I'd be glad to answer anything! Good chance I will have questions in the future about #activitypub and #mastodon that I will be asking!

@katzenmann@c3d2.social Hey! Been checking out #activitypub today, but I come from #atproto land. Relays have gotten pretty cheap to run now, thankfully. They used to keep a mirror of the whole network, but now only keep a couple of days. Can squeeze by with less than $40 on them nowadays, or even cheaper. https://whtwnd.com/bnewbold.net/3lo7a2a4qxg2l We also have a bunch of community ran ones, a few listed at this beautiful URL lol https://compare.hose.cam Relay's also don't directly do feed aggregation, but they do feed the feed with the posts. But that can also be swapped out between relay's or even something called JetStream, which is a diet relay. Feeds listen to this firehose and filter out posts on how it wants, like which content it wants to show. For instance, here's a feed URL for posts about cornbread lol https://api.graze.social/xrpc/app.bsky.feed.getFeedSkeleton?feed=at://did:plc:rnpkyqnmsw4ipey6eotbdnnf/app.bsky.feed.generator/Cornbread The feed just returns the at-uri's which can be used to hydrate the feed from getting posts from an AppView or connecting directly to the user's PDSs

Thank you @jimray@mastodon.social !

@ajhalili2006@tilde.zone Thank you!

@katexcellence@hachyderm.io ayeeee you got the handle going! Also it’s so interesting to me that “followers” is what migrates and not your following. I did a double take when I saw that in the settings page