Philpax

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/ZT7TB9-at-the-billion-edge-social-graph/

• Improving documentation
• Not just building higher-level abstractions, but improving the low-level documentations
• PDSes host accounts; if you don't run one, you'll end up on a Bsky-hosted PDS
  • PDS self-hosting is well documented
  • All it really has to do is host your local data
  • Also added deploy-recipes
• The firehose is how you get information from the network; it is just the websocket
  • Getting the Twitter firehose was very irritating in 2020i
• Can use websocat to listen to the firehose
• One of the core ideas is that you can backfill the entire network with enough time and hard drive space
  • About 30 TB of space to store the Bluesky posts, but other things on the protocol are much smaller
• Dealing with older data was irritating, but tap makes it easier (ATProto-specific application, not the generic application)
  • Can use it to consume from the firehose
• graze.social is a useful way of building custom feeds
• Microcosm is an effective way of interacting with the AT Protocol
  • Constellation offers an interface for querying all of the links in the protocol - and everything is a link
• pdsls
• XRPC is a thin layer over HTTPS
  • Records are stored as they're sent; there's no magic transformation
• Leaflet
• anisota
• Can mix existing lexicons with new lexicons, as anisota does
• Dan Abramov posts about ATProto / mounting posts via FUSE
• Bridgyfed connects Fediverse and ATProto