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Am I Building the Torment Nexus? I built a tool that lets HappyView operators browse the contents of atproto spaces, and the moment I saw it working I got a pit in my stomach. Here's what the community had to say about whether it should exist, and what it needs to look like if it does.

trezy.codesAm I Building the Torment Nexus?I built a tool that lets HappyView operators browse the contents of atproto spaces, and the moment I saw it working I got a pit in my stomach. Here's what the community had to say about whether it should exist, and what it needs to look like if it does.

Boris

@bmann.ca

This is the world most users of software live in: data in someone else’s database - and it’s also why a bunch of people have been very vocal about wanting private data to mean encrypted at rest. I want that too, and @automerge.org & KeyHive are likelier candidates to produce that.

7/10/26, 12:45 am0 reposts3 likes

Boris

@bmann.ca

Are there other best practice technical approaches? How do we help support digital literacy in working with builders & hosts? How do we support hosts in forming co-ops and other formal entities that have more oversight & support? This is all hard!

Trezy

@trezy.codes

It is! As I said in the article, I'm working on making HappyView a more securely managed system, but I think there's even more I can do in the future. One of the things I've been thinking about is how the plugin system in v3 could help. Could there be a plugin to enable E2EE on spaces? Possibly.