The Sidecar Pattern: Why Every Major Tech Company Runs Proxies on Every Pod
“But doesn’t that mean every single request goes through an extra hop?”
The Sidecar Pattern: Why Every Major Tech Company Runs Proxies on Every Pod
“But doesn’t that mean every single request goes through an extra hop?”
We Found The Radical Solution That Could End Corporate Monopolies
Rethinking Bluesky's "Decentralization": An Assessment as of January 2026 - Nightflight
January 19, 2026
On discourse and decentralisation
Over the last year, as Bluesky got more popular, conversations about whether Bluesky and ATProto are really ‘decentralised’ have gotten more “popular” as well. These conversations ranged from high-quality, productive back-and-forth articles to people just saying a lot of dumb stuff on the internet (shocker, I know). As time went on, this discourse has grown […]
Paul's Leaflets
There's a surprisingly nuanced discussion in development about the political economy of clients and servers in the Atmosphere
Re: Re: Bluesky and Decentralization -- Dustycloud Brainstorms
A few weeks ago I wrote How decentralized is Bluesky really?, a blogpost which received far more attention than I expected on the fediverse and Bluesky both. Thankfully, the blogpost was received well generally, including by Bluesky's team. Bryan Newbold, core Bluesky engineer, wrote a thoughtful response article: Reply on Bluesky and Decentralization, which I consider worth reading.
The politics of purely client-side apps - Paul's Leaflets
There's a surprisingly nuanced discussion in development about the political economy of clients and servers in the Atmosphere
Building your own algorithm on Bluesky and AT Protocol with Graze
Protocols, Not Platforms: A Technological Approach to Free Speech
So I finally finished reading this and while I agree with the recommendation, I’m a little wary of some of the context it’s rooted in ideologically and I’m wondering if others have thoughts on these things. Equality in the marketplace I think the main problem with the text is that it relies heavily on the idea of “marketplace of ideas,” leaning heavily on the idea that protocols are actually good for markets specifically because they make competition more perfect (because there’s better knowled...
skywatch-bsky/osprey-sidecars
A set of tools built along side Osprey to enable batch analyses
Is Bluesky's "Decentralization" Real? – The Empty Promise of DIDs and the Path to a WordPress-Style Ecosystem - Nightflight
Collection
Updated 1mo
Thoughts about Sidecar Proxies
when proxying requests to feedgens the client will add an x-bsky-topics header to the request with the users selected topics of interest and it expects the PDS to forward that header on to the feedgen this also plays into a larger issue of what exactly service proxying entails being very ambiguous
Excited to share our new research demo, where you can freely traverse the world of Bluesky through 20,000 interconnected trails, spanning “analysis of fictional tropes” to “rotisserie chicken” to “zoning and land use policy.” Try it out, and let us know what you think!
skytrails · 20,000 trails through Bluesky
www.skytrails.orgProxies
Resources for learning about & safely using proxies
cars are bad for humans
equity, mental, social, health issues caused by cars and car infra. #fuckcars
Porxie - a correct, fast ATProto blob proxy - Blooym
IP Intelligence, Bot Detection, Fraud Detection | IPQS
Every Right On Red Frays The Social Contract A Little Further | Defector
Real men don't bike: How cars became the symbol of American manhood
Cycling Toward a Cooler Toronto | The Power of Bike Lanes
This stopped me in my tracks. An independent study by @qmul.bsky.social has found that after ULEZ was introduced, children’s lungs grew…
If there’s a war on cars in the USA then the cars have won
The woman has unfortunately died after being run over by another woman backing her car out of a parking spot. Cars are unsafe at any speed.
