redsolver

18 Sept

Hey, I'm looking for freelance dev work! 🧑🏻‍💻 I specialize in distributed systems and content-addressed networks, mostly in Rust 🦀 Also happy to take on consulting, architecture reviews or other software engineering work. Based in Germany, invoices with VAT 🇪🇺 🦋 DMs open 📧 red@skyfeed.dev

emudhra.we-have-a-problem.comeMudhra Intermediate CA CompromiseeMudhra Intermediate CA Compromise

It's frustrating that major web browsers still don't support DANE/TLSA, after over a decade! With DNSSEC and TLSA 1 1 1, domains could require both a valid CA-issued certificate AND a matching pubkey hash. It would stop rogue-CA certs in browsers that support it, without reducing security for others

Filippo Valsorda@filippo.abyssdomain.expert

🚨 Six WebPKI Intermediate CAs are compromised. This is bigger than Heartbleed, but a client-side issue. Anything that verifies certificates against public roots, like most TLS clients, is/was affected. Details, live test, patched versions and workarounds at emudhra.we-have-a-problem.com Act now.

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SkyFeed

@skyfeed.eu

SkyFeed hosts 91,000 custom feeds for 865 € a month, just shy of 1 cent per feed 🪙🦜 The SkyFeed Pro sub now covers 11% of that and makes feeds you published refresh faster. You don't have to build feeds to subscribe, getting a sub for 5 €/month also helps keep the ones you read running!

skyfeed.euSkyFeed Financial Sustainability TrackerWhat hosting SkyFeed's community feeds costs each month and how much of it SkyFeed Pro covers.

Yes, the new SkyFeed Builder does have "any of" blocks! And it also has a light mode :P

Here's a first peek at the new SkyFeed Builder, coming soon to @skyfeed.eu 🦜

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SkyFeed

@skyfeed.eu

If you are subscribed to SkyFeed Pro (skyfeed.eu), your published SkyFeed feeds now refresh more often! New posts should usually appear in 30 to 90 seconds and I'm working on making that significantly faster soon, with most of the performance improvements also coming to all free feeds.

I need to know: which of these colors feel the most like they could contain a set of bsky posts? 1. yellow-ish 2. pink 3. light blue 4. orange 5. "rosewater"

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rklaehn.bsky.social

@rklaehn.bsky.social

We have released a new version of @iroh.computer. Nothing major in terms of features, but we did manage to significantly reduce the binary size. So now my entire embedded device zoo is running on iroh from crates.io. No more patch needed. www.iroh.computer/blog/iroh-1-...

bsky.appSkyFeed Hangout (temporary)41/100

21 Sept

If you want to help test some new cutting-edge skyfeed features later today and give feedback, come join the chat room: bsky.app/chat/eCF6sL2

14 Sept

nothing to see here, this is just a test post for checking the latency of the new skyfeed query engine :P

sub 3 seconds!

this has been a bit painful, but now skyfeed.app is no longer on a 2 year old flutter version :) I also added a few performance improvements, so it should feel better to use. However, Flutter no longer supports the HTML renderer on web, so if somethings broken on your device pls let me know

SkyFeed Classic@skyfeed.app

⭐ SkyFeed Classic v1-beta.1 is here! • Full OAuth Login Support • New posts now appear in real-time in feeds and threads • Interaction counts of all visible posts update live • Catppuccin Themes added • Improved font rendering • Upgraded to latest Flutter Try it on skyfeed.app 🦜

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we're doing dairy well, thanks for asking

ari 💫@arimelody.space

just saw a rust developer ask for "better ergonomics for working with cows" what are y'all Doing over there

skyfeed.euSkyFeed - Take Control of Your FeedsAn open visual feed builder for Bluesky and beyond. Instant preview, full control, zero tracking.

18 Aug

I deployed Jetstream V2 (github.com/bluesky-soci...) a few days ago and am pretty happy with how smooth it is, compared to previous solutions.

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SkyFeed

@skyfeed.eu

17 Aug

Back in March I posted that SkyFeed isn't sustainable: hosting 75,000+ community feeds for millions of readers costs ~1000€/month, and donations cover ~200€. The gap has been coming out of my own pocket. Today that changes: SkyFeed Pro is now live on skyfeed.eu 💚 [1/x]

bsky.appSkyFeed Hangout (temporary)2/50

I've been testing a few open Discord alternatives (including atproto-native ones) and they are really promising, but not fully there yet! So for now, I decided to instead simply create a temporary bsky group chat for SkyFeed discussion: bsky.app/chat/eCF6sL2 - feel free to join and say hi :)

My final picks were @colibri.social (excited for the next release there!), @chatto.run (still working on atproto/bsky auth and integration) and potentially @nerimity.com (excellent feature set and interface, but not that close to atproto)

bsky.appSkyFeed Hangout (temporary)2/50

if the member limit becomes an issue I'll create another one and bridge them!

15 July

I would like to set up a community space/chat for SkyFeed, which platforms/protocols would you recommend? the obvious pick here is Discord, but not sure if that really fits the whole "privacy-friendly and decentralized" vibe. I would also consider trying roomy, but not sure how polished it is yet?

15 July

Hey everyone, I would like to apologize for the unreliable SkyFeed experience over the past few days. It's part of the not quite yet finished process of migrating feeds to the new infra, and I'm trying my best to get it done and finally have reliable feeds again! (incl. all the personalized ones)

18 June

Hey, I've been switching a lot of feeds over to the new infra over the past few hours, if you still notice any issues in one of your (or someone elses) skyfeed feeds right NOW, in this moment, please reply here with a link to it. I'll take a look and fix them if needed!

11 June

Now We're Thinking With Bitmaps

redsolver@redsolver.dev

After more than a year of re-building the entire SkyFeed architecture, the first few SkyFeed feeds are now finally being served by it! 🎉 All feeds are being validated automatically on each request and if they are proven to work reliably, that specific feed is routed to the new server.

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11 June

Replying to @rawkitbawl.bsky.social

Oh yeah for uhhm a few minutes I had the bunny cdn cache not vary by query params, which resulted in everyone getting the same (cached) feed for a few seconds each 😅

This new setup should result in significantly more reliable user experience across all feeds, and enables me to finally resume work on some long-promised features and updates! If you notice any issues during the cutover phase, please ping me or send me a DM.

3 June

SkyFeed feeds are currently down due to a networking issue over at my @fly.io cache layer. Not sure yet if it's just my fault for not configuring something correctly or if they are having issues, I'm currently doing my best to find the issue and fix it quickly!

3 June

This was a weird one, my redis cache container was migrated to a new host I guess, but its internal v6 ip could not be reached from the other skyfeed containers. re-deploying the cache container (resulting in a new IP) fixed it

19 May

I'm investigating a skyfeed outage, will post updates in this thread.

19 May

feeds should be coming back up again, sorry for the downtime. I'm in the process of migrating over to the new and more reliable feed architecture I've been working on for a long time now, and I did not setup proper monitoring in this stage because I expected the full migration to continue faster...

iroh.computeriroh 1.0.0-rc.0 - The first release candidateRelease of iroh v1.0.0-rc.0

14 May

Whoops, the skyfeed.xyz did:web (used for OnlyPosts and Discover) was broken because caddy could not renew the TLS cert due to the disk being full. Sorry about that, fixed now!

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dig

@dig.bsky.social

11 May

🎉 The first RC of @iroh.computer 1.0 is here, we made it! Yes it is real, after more than 50 releases, it is time for iroh@1.0.0-rc.0 Thank you everyone for making this a reality! www.iroh.computer/blog/iroh-1-...

ko-fi.comSupport Feed Builders Tip JarSupport Feed Builders Tip Jar

5 May

Switched to the new feed service url! (new url is just a proxy to the old service for now, but it's the first step) Let me know in this thread if you notice any NEW (not before seen) issues or degradations in your feeds while I continue with the next steps :)

redsolver@redsolver.dev

Hey SkyFeed users, I will switch the skyfeed service url to a new backend later today. I expect this to go smoothly, but if not feeds might go down for a short period of time. This is the first step of migrating to the new architecture, which will be significantly more reliable and fix a lot of bugs

I'm currently in the final refinements to my optimized atproto indexer for skyfeed and just learned that there is no efficient way to detect deletions with incremental repo sync :( does anyone know a good solution to this issue?

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Graze Social

@graze.social

1 Apr

Folks have been reaching out about how to support Graze beyond our core product. We think that support needs to go beyond Graze. That's why we've teamed up with our direct competitors @skyfeed.app and @blueskyfeedcreator.com to jointly support all our work:

Hi! SkyFeed is struggling and I need to find a solution. If you don't know SkyFeed, it's a service I built 2 years ago, enabling anyone to build and publish feeds using a visual block-based editor. SkyFeed is still hosting the most feeds on Bluesky, but that comes at a cost [1/X]

For now, the plan would be to launch with just one feature: Currently, feeds are cached for up to 5 minutes, depending on server load. If you pay, all feeds you publish would update in real-time and feeds used by paid users would also update more frequently, keeping their contents fresh for everyone

My current timeline is getting this ready in 1-2 months, alongside the migration of most existing feeds to the new architecture To stay up-to-date you can follow me and the @skyfeed.app account I'm curious what you think, so please feel to reply here with ideas and feedback or drop me a message :)

However, even the new engine doesn't change the fact that SkyFeed needs revenue. First of all, I am committed to *never* adding ads, because they go against the spirit of algorithmic choice. Also, the entire backend will continue to be fully open-source and all existing features will remain free.

So the only solution that feels fair to me is adding an optional SkyFeed Pro subscription which would support the project and add new resource-intensive features for advanced feed builders, like unlimited history or personalized feeds. I'm still open to suggestions, so please tell me what you think!

The first component I started to rewrite was the indexer, but I quickly realized the storage and query layers also needed a ground-up rebuild. This took far longer than expected and was the main reason for not improving the SkyFeed app or adding support for new features like video

The good news: After 4 iterations, the new fully Rust-based architecture is almost ready. The historical backfill is running, and experiments with the new query engine have been very promising. I am confident that the new engine will deliver and am excited about the amazing new feeds it will enable!

Donations mostly covered costs at the end of 2024, but expenses skyrocketed as I scaled everything to keep up with Bluesky growing quickly. While fighting the fires popping up in the infrastructure, I couldn't really focus on releasing new features, fix bugs or implement long-promised improvements