Constellation will get some minor maintenance in a few moments: the primary host instance (cassiopeia, the raspberry pi 5) just started falling a bit behind. Failover to the secondary (mikrokosmos, higher capacity) is automatic, so any impact on public requests should only last a few moments.

atcute has had microcosm xrpcs built-in for a bit now and it's such a nice way to use them github.com/mary-ext/atc...

Heh, I managed to plug in @microcosm.blue Constellation into the "Hidden replies" loading code in Skythread instead of my (more limited) backend in like ~15 minutes of work 🫠 Really important plus of making XRPC-shaped APIs - very easy to use with existing XRPC client libraries!

anisota lookin mighty hot, even the bsky verification uptick is cause anisota has verification/cancellation buttons built in

big news (good news) for indie atproto relays running the indigo/relay implementation: github.com/bluesky-soci... this is going to significantly resolve the biggest (show-stopping tbh) problems i wrote about in august: updates.microcosm.blue/3lxvll4ebhs2c

Ana just went ahead and wrote the missing Getting Started With Constellation Guide and it’s great! get your atproto app launched with constellation and slingshot + atcute💖 for auth and writes

shoutout to @bad-example.com and @microcosm.blue constellation backlinks, that's how the diff chain for drafts and document history get traced when you load up a WIP doc. BTW I don't actually recommend people USE this yet, certainly not for anything serious. Stuff is still quite buggy. But...

people are liking the harvest minigame there’s even a dedicated page for it where you can play round after round: anisota.net/harvest/minigame 🌾 lexicon stat via @microcosm.blue

also s/o @microcosm.blue bc this uses the slingshot identifier minidoc to get the user's pds ✨

I'm running @microcosm.blue slingshot on slingshot.wisp.place It's currently on a Virginia, US box docs here: slingshot.microcosm.blue#description/... it really really speeds up record fetching/handle resolution and is super cool. Ill monitor bandwidth and see if i can move to other locations

After we switched from firehose to jetstream for wafrn, we used @microcosm.blue's jetstream network for it and it has been great since Thanks!

Service note: some microcosm APIs will be disrupted shortly for hardware reconfiguration Unavailable: 🟠 spacedust.microcosm.blue 🟠 ufos-api.microcosm.blue Available with stale data 🟡 constellation.microcosm.blue NOT affected 🟢 slingshot.microcosm.blue 🟢 plc.wtf 🟢 both relays 🟢 all three jetstream

building on microcosm? have a question? you can always tag us bluesky, open an issue on tangled, or even join the microcosm discord where more folks in the community might be able to help ❤️

what's that? a second ip you can access constellation via?

every deer fork that inherits the custom verifiers feature uses constellation to verify 🥰

it finished! it looks like it worked!! you can browse it: qoomon.github.io/aws-s3-bucke... need to actually test, someone want to try to restore from it?

constellation public rocksdb backup via tigrisFS in progress and looking promising! once it's done, you should be able to mount the bucket locally, start constellation with `--restore-from-backup`, and have an instance with the full constellation.microcosm.blue backlink history up in an hour or two

Seriously considering buying a stack of orange pi 5s and making a little hurricane tower of services to stick in a colo so I could operate a EU presence of @microcosm.blue and other community services. Plz gib money so I can do more things that benefit people.

yup that's officially 10 billion atproto backlinks indexed by constellation across every lexicon that you can query at constellation.microcosm.blue

shout out constellation from @microcosm.blue !! made this basically trivial to build

lots of exciting projects in Montreal this week weaving the ATProto ecosystem ✨ ( @germnetwork.com @stream.place @leaflet.pub @microcosm.blue @atprotocol.dev @smokesignal.events @cosmik.network @skylight.social )

there was a 9-min disruption to constellation, ufos-api, and spacedust this morning due to a datacentre (fig's house) power flicker. by 8:30am EDT, auto-recovery worked for all services, which fully recovered on their own.

couldnt have done this without @microcosm.blue , constellation for the no-effort query of incoming bites, and also ufos for discovering and inferring the schema for net.wafrn.feed.bite to implement it without reading any docs

summary of the small Montreal relay and jetstream incident this morning from a suspected networking issue: - relay PDS connections dropped around 3am EST - autoreconnect brought them back up around 8am EST firehose event delivery was *delayed* during those five hours (no events were lost)

I’m working on adding back links to @atexplore.social. I have a very rough version. Shout out to @microcosm.blue for making it easier to implement.

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Blacksky Algorithms == Hard Decentralization.

New from @nekomimi.pet/atproto-ui: > cache records to save on repeat lookups

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Allegedly 0.3.1 is out! Fix: parameter passing when proxying New mode: "wrap". Reverse-proxy to a PLC server. Eg: Allegedly can replace Caddy in front of Parakeet, and accept writes via PLC op forwarding. Auto TLS included. New example code: poll PLC to detect unexpected changes to your DID:

a bluesky post can join two users by mentioning them, which shows up in the post record as links in the facets. aka, posts can act as a many-to-many join between mentioned users want to see who you’re mentioned together most often with?

I only know this as I wrote a really shitty script to pull them so I can use @microcosm.blue slingshot to backfill feeds

you can just ship things with microcosm

Also, if you're an ATProto nerd/dev, there's now a new "Inspect Record" control button that let's you dive deeper into a record's data without ever leaving the Anisota experience! It's simple at the moment, but it will improve over time. See backlinks via @microcosm.blue! Try it out: anisota.net

microcosm relays unaffected 🥝 relay.fire.hose.cam and jetstream.fire.hose.cam (montreal) 🥝 relay3.fr.hose.cam and jetstream2.fr.hose.cam (EU) 🍊https://jetstream1.us-east.fire.hose.cam *is* affected because it subscribes to bsky.network

oh that’s 9 billion atproto backlinks indexed!

ok we are live! constellation can now count by many-to-many link records!! motivating example was bluemoji, but it's already usable for some general traversal. you can ask, > what issues on @tangled.org have a "good-first-issue" label? check it:

i get so much atproto mileage from microcosm tools

We've got some good-first-issues for @microcosm.blue, come get em!!

with @slices.network and @microcosm.blue Constellation offering easy indexing on the atmosphere, we’re getting close to a point where forks of the official bluesky client can augment it with non-trivial new features without running their own backend

was seconds away from wrapping this up and then: "error: no method `get_val_from_id` for struct `IdTable<TargetKey, TargetId, false>`" so it will be another minute before this many-to-many endpoint ships.

Now what I was interested in: keys. This is how many keys each lexicon has (think properties, like "author" or "createdAt") and how many "subtypes" in it (i.e. other Lexicons). The tails here are looooong. Also congrats to @anisota.net for being "keys count georg". en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiders...

For the last ATGeo Working Group, I pulled word stats from ATmosphere Lexicon to see who-was-doing-what with geo-like data. Folks found it interesting, so I'm sharing it more broadly. Link is here: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Data is based on @microcosm.blue's APIs. Interesting bits below 👇

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op forwarding means you can switch to this indie PLC instance exclusively, without fracturing the network at all in the event that we need to migrate away front current centralized plc.directory, fewer things might break for you, no action needed.

plc.wtf reference mirror now has a place for PLC experiments: - experimental.plc.wtf experiment #1: upstream op forwarding. submit a PLC op and Allegedly will forward it upstream to `plc.directory` for you. everything stays in sync, but you don't have to touch the official directory at all

🌌 constellation had a brief service disruption, but is back up now

btw we got the @upcloud.com sponsorship credits!!!!!!

Finally publishing this about PLC! On a day with big PLC news!! I think the news recasts this piece into more "why that's important", and less doom hopefully!