







Social Network User Data Storage
Social Network User Data Storage
An entire Social Network in 1.6GB (GraphD Part 2)
Roaring Bitmaps offer an even more efficient way to store and query an entire social graph, fitting the entire network of 5.5M users and 164M+ follows into a ~1.6GB SQLite DB on disk.
Personal data storage is an idea whose time has come
Data Ownership as a conversation changes when data resides primarily with people-governed institutions rather than corporations.

Multi-Homed Personal Data for Education
This blogpost is part of a 20-day project I'm doing for the SURF/NPuls EduWallet Incubator this year, exploring what Personal Data Stores (PDSs) like the Solid Project can add to Wallets.
Personal data from verification process public: W Social downplays
Social network W Social wants to set itself apart from the competition by verifying all accounts. The fact that some collected data is public is not a mistake.

Who Even Cares About Data Ownership Anyway? - What The Function!?
Taking a look at a concept that's been talked a lot over the last few years, especially in the context of social media

Who Even Cares About Data Ownership Anyway? - What The Function!?
Taking a look at a concept that's been talked a lot over the last few years, especially in the context of social media

AT Protocol accounts · uchu.social
Create an account for mochott, Bluesky and other apps built on the AT Protocol. Your profile, posts and other data are stored on uchu.social, and you can move them to another server later.

Simplify sharing with built-in APIs and progressive enhancement
Instead of leaning into heavy social sharing widgets, you can create a truly user-friendly social sharing component that works for everyone, using built-in APIs and progressive enhancement.
Introducing bsky.storage: Own Your Social Identity
Take back control of your online identity. Our new tool, bsky.storage, backs up your Bluesky account hourly — free, secure &…
Permissioned Data Diary 2: Buckets - Daniel's Leaflets
The second in a series of posts building up a solution to permissioned data on atproto. We introduce buckets: a new protocol primitive for creating a shared social context.
Social apps | at-store
Social-layer apps focused on posting, discovery, conversation, and relationship-building across the network.
Once again looking at bring your own user-data storage options (for my malleable software experiment this time). What do people think are some user friendly options that don't require any OAuth apps to be created on the server? ie. no Dropbox, Google Drive, One Drive & other services like that.
I know I’ve said this before and recently, but I’m over the skeuomorphic UX of Bluesky that makes it look and feel like a 20 year old social media app. I’m ready for new experiences for this kind of media/data. This information architecture is played out. Let’s try some new ideas with other clients.