Nostr notes by fig (aka:[phil])

record: broken. 21.7K unique identities have published ...

2026-09-06T18:30:35Z

record: broken. 21.7K unique identities have published non-bluesky data so far this week, the most ever.

(and we're less than halfway through the ufos-week)

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:hdhoaan3xa3jiuq4fg4mefid/post/3muss7zfukk2v
https://porcini.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:hdhoaan3xa3jiuq4fg4mefid&cid=bafkreihcxwsfv4z6tz4bfv4mr7gtht6p2cqwfqh7gpscam3s4fcadq7544

quoting
note1wa7…f9me

oooooo ya we're only like three days into this ufos-week, and on track to blow past the non-bsky weekly-actives record
https://porcini.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:hdhoaan3xa3jiuq4fg4mefid&cid=bafkreifmpo3ppbwtdpxholiddk23hvyok3v4pqffpba2dmp5trc7jkmzvi

oooooo ya we're only like three days into this ufos-week, and ...

2026-09-06T01:01:50Z

In reply to nevent1q…wl5c
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oooooo ya we're only like three days into this ufos-week, and on track to blow past the non-bsky weekly-actives record
https://porcini.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:hdhoaan3xa3jiuq4fg4mefid&cid=bafkreifmpo3ppbwtdpxholiddk23hvyok3v4pqffpba2dmp5trc7jkmzvi

oof, a lot of atproto rust ecosystem handle resolution uses ...

2026-09-03T21:58:58Z

oof, a lot of atproto rust ecosystem handle resolution uses hickory, psa

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:htsnmeozwqcgo3ar7z65azjr/post/3mun7l5hyek2c

what would you call something that's kind of jetstream-like ...

2026-08-29T19:47:55Z

what would you call something that's kind of jetstream-like but not jetstream

u can just backfill the whole network from hubble to a cheap vps ...

2026-08-11T22:47:34Z

u can just backfill the whole network from hubble to a cheap vps (plus block storage) in 7h6m

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:hdhoaan3xa3jiuq4fg4mefid/post/3msjph2ay2c2k
https://porcini.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:hdhoaan3xa3jiuq4fg4mefid&cid=bafkreicxnb6vd7owxg6etayll2znbde7xnop64euq42or7poro7upcjyb4

quoting
note1tm9…n2vn

u can just backfill the network from scratch in 26h
https://porcini.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:hdhoaan3xa3jiuq4fg4mefid&cid=bafkreicgk4inga4e4i2nuw2mqhseh5wfojoiynaws3hh7il3gifjluwia4

u can just backfill the network from scratch in 26h ...

2026-08-07T23:27:44Z

u can just backfill the network from scratch in 26h
https://porcini.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:hdhoaan3xa3jiuq4fg4mefid&cid=bafkreicgk4inga4e4i2nuw2mqhseh5wfojoiynaws3hh7il3gifjluwia4

24,347,088,288 records in 41,172,356 repos in the reachable ...

2026-08-01T15:25:25Z

24,347,088,288 records in 41,172,356 repos in the reachable network

fits in 1.86TiB in hubble

i think the process of doing any full network backfill makes you ...

2026-07-08T12:38:59Z

i think the process of doing any full network backfill makes you think you’ve made every possible mistake in the process

im here to tell you: no. there are more possible mistakes to make.

just so people have some heads up: gonna have to do a 2x price ...

2026-06-25T20:28:14Z

just so people have some heads up: gonna have to do a 2x price hike to use microcosm services. this is to keep up with rising tech costs, as everyone is facing.

- $0/mo today
- increasing 2x to $0/mo next month

thanks for your continued support and happy querying

hello! yeah! quite a lot of PLC progress (and some left to go). ...

2026-06-23T19:13:02Z

hello! yeah! quite a lot of PLC progress (and some left to go). (warning: long thread)

1. there is an official reference read-replica implementation: [github.com/did-method-p...](https://github.com/did-method-plc/go-didplc/tree/main/cmd/plc-replica )

the official read-replica is better than the Allegedly reference-server-wrapper that i made, in two important ways:

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:yokonvs2bnnh4bzfiwuiukxv/post/3moxvsg7qds2g

Nostr event nevent1qqs095qhk0szeknpzph6w254lvc3n3ytg4dttduecyx8pl3h6ljh6wqzyrc396enp48426j0cysq9hzfhddp5nf2qd63s4mdge9yxpnk6fzt2wj9t05

2026-06-12T15:14:01Z

the reachable network is 7.7T as car files as of yesterday

ooohhhh yeah baby that's microcosm powering your ...

2026-06-11T17:33:42Z

ooohhhh yeah baby that's microcosm powering your [mu.social](https://mu.social ) verifications hehehe
https://porcini.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:hdhoaan3xa3jiuq4fg4mefid&cid=bafkreidcuh3qaenspniglp4h26auzyfovykmbtzulcmlf3pxvpg3unyldy

trying out [userinput.app](https://userinput.app ), made a ...

2026-06-11T12:18:36Z

trying out [userinput.app](https://userinput.app ), made a microcosm board for constellation:

[userinput.app#/s/did:plc:l...](https://userinput.app/#/s/did:plc:lulmyldiq4sb2ikags5sfb25/3mnz75hfxac2a )

…microcosm probably has too many projects to make boards for each one. should there just be one? or a few by category? or

Update! at the Lightrail pretty embarrassing bug fixed, sorry for ...

2026-06-10T23:25:02Z

Update! at the Lightrail

pretty embarrassing bug fixed, sorry for all the requests!

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:lulmyldiq4sb2ikags5sfb25/post/3mnxu5lgc422n

…and the other thing i’ve been setting up for Eurosky! ...

2026-06-10T13:28:45Z

…and the other thing i’ve been setting up for Eurosky!

managed postgres, rainbow fan-out, 72h replay window, recovery and maintenance plans, and some more i’ll write about soon

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ooensn4mr5mhznzypvxelfa3/post/3mnw5pkpvtk2t

quoting
note1chh…ff9x

10.06.2026 – release 2 of 3

Today we’re switching on a high-reliability relay: [relay1.eurosky.network](https://relay1.eurosky.network )

The firehose of the Atmosphere, running on European infrastructure.

[relay1.eurosky.network](https://relay1.eurosky.network )

kicking off a [firehose.club](https://firehose.club ) community ...

2026-05-11T20:50:52Z

kicking off a [firehose.club](https://firehose.club ) community relay list, thanks to Sri (npub10vh…kvt5) ! open a PR to add yours!

[firehose.club/3ml2fpb5s6w22](https://tangled.org/firehose.club/3ml2fpb5s6w22 )

been monitoring all microcosm services through the day and ...

2026-04-16T23:44:18Z

been monitoring all microcosm services through the day and haven't posted much about it because it's been mostly just fine. nobody has been attacking microcosm today.

traffic is up a lot of course but all the little boxes have been chill.

hugops the the bsky folks, this one must have been rough

microcosm relays are public and free to use! it’s cool to ...

2026-04-16T20:07:08Z

microcosm relays are public and free to use!

it’s cool to subscribe to both bluesky and microcosm relays if your firehose consumer can do multi-relay ✨

SLA available if you’re a business and need that: get in touch!

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:2zmxikig2sj7gqaezl5gntae/post/3mjn5toe4bs2g

quoting
note1se5…6687

Streamplace chat working better again thanks to [relay.fire.hose.cam](https://relay.fire.hose.cam ). In @bad-example.com we trust!

https://relay.fire.hose.cam

psa about covid tests for everyone who was at #atmosphereconf: if ...

2026-04-02T14:42:41Z

psa about covid tests for everyone who was at #atmosphereconf:

if you start feeling anything after your negative test, please take another, 24–48h after the last one.

the rapid tests have a very real false-negative rate, and testing positive has always happened some time *after* symptoms for me

someone hold me finishing and publishing this ...

2026-03-31T19:26:45Z

someone hold me finishing and publishing this
https://porcini.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:hdhoaan3xa3jiuq4fg4mefid&cid=bafkreidlaoes54esecnoq3asw4kd4rebhcgek22d5bqm7yber3knj5yiay

slides for my talk (now-ish) if you want to follow the small-text ...

2026-03-28T18:29:41Z

slides for my talk (now-ish) if you want to follow the small-text (or get spoilers)

[atproto infra](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ug-ld9lFwZNnUTUlo0AIeMSxr5Se1UT2h6vcOVbzrBM/edit?usp=sharing )

if you are (or have ever been) a financial supporter of ...

2026-03-23T16:49:12Z

if you are (or have ever been) a financial supporter of microcosm, can i send you a few questions? (last-minute research for my talk)

now that lowercase atproto is settled can we fight about “on” ...

2026-03-22T22:57:23Z

now that lowercase atproto is settled can we fight about “on” vs “in the atmosphere”

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:gotnvwkr56ibs33l4hwgfoet/post/3mhoi2rek5c2z

it takes work to keep microcosm services not just online, but ...

2026-02-18T22:54:35Z

it takes work to keep microcosm services not just online, but reliably online, freely available, at low operating cost, without sacrificing performance or capacity, for a growing user-base.

so grateful for the direct support i receive from the community, which still covers all recurring expenses 💪

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:lulmyldiq4sb2ikags5sfb25/post/3mf64zdf4p22p

thinking through the upcoming many-to-many (non-aggregated) ...

2026-02-10T21:09:34Z

thinking through the upcoming many-to-many (non-aggregated) constellation query
https://porcini.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:hdhoaan3xa3jiuq4fg4mefid&cid=bafkreibwxya7sosdtnjojsblmt5afn3tmudoxqd4ljgvnk5osyutb6sdz4
https://porcini.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:hdhoaan3xa3jiuq4fg4mefid&cid=bafkreibxgbdq7h2alasx5efay6rbjwycthsgm7i5jjdhqozdso3sb74slu
https://porcini.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:hdhoaan3xa3jiuq4fg4mefid&cid=bafkreie65mculhn4g6bqujgietc77ozdqyi4gs5nmmd6qwmac5hbmahbbi

would be cool of bluesky to ship a quick non-perfect display of ...

2026-02-08T18:01:13Z

would be cool of bluesky to ship a quick non-perfect display of their already-existing pronouns profile field

it’s happening!!! going to be able to share about a big new ...

2026-02-06T19:11:35Z

it’s happening!!! going to be able to share about a big new atproto community infra project very very very soon

[debug.hose.cam](https://debug.hose.cam ) ...

2025-12-20T15:35:58Z

[debug.hose.cam](https://debug.hose.cam )

[debug.hose.cam](https://debug.hose.cam )

gimme your top feature requests and bug reports for ...

2025-12-02T07:46:55Z

gimme your top feature requests and bug reports for [ufos.microcosm.blue](https://ufos.microcosm.blue ), i’m planning a one-week sprint on it in january

[🛸 UFOs: Explore atproto lexico...](https://ufos.microcosm.blue )

I think i had some listRepos ordering bias in those numbers. ...

2025-11-13T22:05:26Z

I think i had some listRepos ordering bias in those numbers. I've now pulled *all* CARs from active repos (~490k) from `morel`:

- 0.5 MiB average CAR size
- 0.015 MiB: median size

top five largest CARs:
1. 650 MiB
2. 490 MiB
3. 330 MiB
4. 290 MiB
5. 260 MiB

(again this is only for morel pds)

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:hdhoaan3xa3jiuq4fg4mefid/post/3m5enw7apoc2h

yup that's officially 10 billion atproto backlinks indexed by ...

2025-11-12T21:59:30Z

yup that's officially 10 billion atproto backlinks
indexed by constellation
across every lexicon
that you can query
at [constellation.microcosm.blue](https://constellation.microcosm.blue )
https://porcini.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:hdhoaan3xa3jiuq4fg4mefid&cid=bafkreieu2oaghr6y45c3e7h2qmofupnxj3k2a5gxtxhrzoxzq5xc6mnsky

how it started how it’s going ...

2025-10-16T14:53:38Z

how it started

how it’s going
https://porcini.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:hdhoaan3xa3jiuq4fg4mefid&cid=bafkreicby3m2zrifezvr7b653ejusz64m3rhtn67q7od5vor3u6uagt2om

ok we are live! constellation can now count by many-to-many link ...

2025-10-03T19:13:41Z

ok we are live! constellation can now count by many-to-many link records!!

motivating example was bluemoji, but it's already usable for some general traversal. you can ask,

> what issues on Tangled (npub19y6…yh78) have a "good-first-issue" label?

check it:

[Many to Many counts — Constell...](https://constellation.microcosm.blue/xrpc/blue.microcosm.links.getManyToManyCounts?subject=at%3A%2F%2Fdid%3Aplc%3Awshs7t2adsemcrrd4snkeqli%2Fsh.tangled.label.definition%2Fgood-first-issue&source=sh.tangled.label.op%3Aadd%5B%5D.key&pathToOther=subject&limit=25 )

this and: the big bet with microcosm is that we can bridge a ...

2025-10-03T02:12:26Z

this and: the big bet with microcosm is that we can bridge a *lot* of the performance gap and make client-only apps easy to build, with really acceptable performance.

slingshot still needs a lot of work but it’s part of this: it can learn the graph from active users and pre-cache from the firehose

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:fpruhuo22xkm5o7ttr2ktxdo/post/3m2arwuuktk2b

[Slingshot: atproto edge record...](https://slingshot.microcosm.blue/ )
nostr:note1crg5vefqmzk4lkhm4fnulu8hljqdrh4403txl7s7vrfjhz4e5yysj2lzwc

Blacksky building their own implementations of atproto services ...

2025-09-30T13:46:59Z

Blacksky building their own implementations of atproto services is an incredibly good and forward-looking move.

[plc.wtf](https://plc.wtf ) reference mirror now has a place for ...

2025-09-29T20:28:49Z

[plc.wtf](https://plc.wtf ) reference mirror now has a place for PLC experiments:

- [experimental.plc.wtf](https://experimental.plc.wtf )

experiment #1: upstream op forwarding. submit a PLC op and Allegedly will forward it upstream to `plc.directory` for you.

everything stays in sync, but you don't have to touch the official directory at all

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:hdhoaan3xa3jiuq4fg4mefid/post/3lzorlskrus2d
https://porcini.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:hdhoaan3xa3jiuq4fg4mefid&cid=bafkreiapssp6z32pnhrm3cvf3nm3qciry3zd2uuzpxdpo6vk6rh6ee33tu

quoting
note1hw8…d57g

[plc.wtf](https://plc.wtf )

it's alive. prob don't use it quite yet tho.

https://plc.wtf

[plc.wtf](https://plc.wtf ) it's alive. prob don't use it ...

2025-09-25T20:19:39Z

[plc.wtf](https://plc.wtf )

it's alive. prob don't use it quite yet tho.

https://plc.wtf

got postgres writing 262k rows/sec so that's probably good ...

2025-09-21T15:54:26Z

got postgres writing 262k rows/sec so that's probably good enough for fast plc backfill for now

Finally publishing this about PLC! On a day with big PLC news!! I ...

2025-09-19T20:16:57Z

Finally publishing this about PLC! On a day with big PLC news!!

I think the news recasts this piece into more "why that's important", and less doom hopefully!

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:44ybard66vv44zksje25o7dz/post/3lz6kko5bnc2l

[Adversarial PLC directory migr...](https://updates.microcosm.blue/3lz7nwvh4zc2u )

quoting
note1pj3…ypq8

excited to share that we are following through on our earlier commitments and putting together an independent+neutral organization to house the DID PLC system, includes the directory service

[Creating an Independent Public...](https://docs.bsky.app/blog/plc-directory-org )

my expectations for atproto doom me to be tired by everything ...

2025-09-13T16:02:02Z

my expectations for atproto doom me to be tired by everything

what’s that thing about overestimating what can be done in the short-term and underestimating the long-term

what's the best place to shorthand-link about "credible ...

2025-09-10T21:35:45Z

what's the best place to shorthand-link about "credible exit"?

the ethos page on [atproto.com](https://atproto.com ) is great but credible exit is really buried in there.

ideally from an authoritative (bluesky or atproto) source

ops gets a little exhausting y’all it’s expensive in dollars, ...

2025-08-18T18:32:42Z

ops gets a little exhausting y’all

it’s expensive in dollars, time, effort, and on days like today, emotion. planning for resilience takes more of all these—more than money but money helps

[github.com/sponsors/uni...](https://github.com/sponsors/uniphil )

[ko-fi.com/bad_example](https://ko-fi.com/bad_example )

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:lulmyldiq4sb2ikags5sfb25/post/3lwoz4tzia22e

whoa, public (no-auth) discover feed is returning empty rn ...

2025-07-26T23:29:12Z

whoa, public (no-auth) discover feed is returning empty rn
https://porcini.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:hdhoaan3xa3jiuq4fg4mefid&cid=bafkreihnldqw2o4vdwqshhm56gnkdediwzfy72wg4muhnq74m4w7t5bbwm

friday is for demos ...

2025-07-25T23:51:52Z

friday is for demos [bsky.bad-example.com/zero-bluesky...](https://bsky.bad-example.com/zero-bluesky-realtime-embed/ )

[zero bluesky live-updating pos...](https://bsky.bad-example.com/zero-bluesky-realtime-embed/ )

spacedust is an atproto firehose of social interactions on ...

2025-07-25T17:45:49Z

spacedust is an atproto firehose of social interactions on atproto, that you can filter by interaction type and *link target*

currently making a bsky post embed widget with it that updates interaction counts in real-time, using zero bsky infra and no backend :)

[spacedust.microcosm.blue](https://spacedust.microcosm.blue/ )
https://porcini.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:hdhoaan3xa3jiuq4fg4mefid&cid=bafkreidbxxkrxli23hfg4zue2yrpuqdqeimuvvkncxwheltmhxn4arht6e

think i’ll repurpose the other pi zero tomorrow for no reason ...

2025-07-14T00:59:28Z

think i’ll repurpose the other pi zero tomorrow for no reason in particular

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:oisofpd7lj26yvgiivf3lxsi/post/3ltv6b5kxv22j
nostr:note1j3ksjturjyax9lq25dhscpzvgvprd55rthr8puf54rg2pekhtx3qrhlfvg

Launching: 🛸 UFOs, a global ATProto lexicon explorer! 🛸 ...

2025-06-12T19:22:59Z

Launching: 🛸 UFOs, a global ATProto lexicon explorer! 🛸

Find sample records for every collection NSID ever published!

+timeseries stats, unique user counts, and more!

🛸 App: [ufos.microcosm.blue](https://ufos.microcosm.blue )
👾 API: [ufos-api.microcosm.blue](https://ufos-api.microcosm.blue )

[🛸 UFOs: Explore atproto lexico...](https://ufos.microcosm.blue/ )

cannot deal with the fact that people are actually sponsoring me ...

2025-06-07T18:48:35Z

cannot deal with the fact that people are actually sponsoring me on github 😭

five new supporters this week, thank you so much 💕💕💕

dataaaaaaaaa 🤤 ...

2025-06-03T20:23:08Z

dataaaaaaaaa 🤤
https://porcini.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:hdhoaan3xa3jiuq4fg4mefid&cid=bafkreihj3epx2aqu6v6fqsaotvgcbmwzqaag54t2p22hczubhai7tt4leq

proof that all of the almost 5 billion links in constellation are ...

2025-05-21T13:28:16Z

proof that all of the almost 5 billion links in constellation are served by a raspi at my home :(

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:lulmyldiq4sb2ikags5sfb25/post/3lpopc4cxts2c

stuff you might want to know about jetstream if you’re building ...

2025-02-07T22:59:14Z

stuff you might want to know about jetstream if you’re building something on atproto that needs to reliably receive all events: [bsky.bad-example.com/consuming-th...](https://bsky.bad-example.com/consuming-the-firehose-correctly/ )

[consuming the jetstream fireho...](https://bsky.bad-example.com/consuming-the-firehose-correctly/ )