Bluesky Comments

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i've added support for Bluesky replies to my posts. they don't load unless you click the link that says "load bluesky comments", and the js comes to like 50 lines? not terrible imo. why support this site? it's run by shitty techlords and the "credible exit" is still unknown. however, i decided i wanted to host my own pds because i like having control of stuff and why not experiment with cool tech. turns out, it's pretty easy, so now everything i post to bluesky and other atproto sites flows into https://pds.noahbogart.com. additionally, i set up my own tangled "knot" (git server), so anything i host there is sitting on knot.noahbogart.com.

i've survived countless website deaths, lost or deliberately deleted thousands of words i've written (rip my shitty "rationalist" phase on tumblr, you will not be missed), joined and quit more forums than i care to remember, even contributed to some cool wikis that are lost to the sands of internet time. it's the way of the internet, but i'm tired of it.

i was so fucking grateful to jae and the rest of the cohost team when they gave us our personal cohost archives. i've read through my posts, reminisced about those times, and it's good to be able to say "this one should remain online" here. i don't want to have a site disappear from beneath me at a moment's notice, which can happen everywhere. (rip posterous)

with atproto, i have a small measure of control against that. even if i'm banned, even if i delete my account, all those posts, all my experiments, all my tangled issues and data will still exist on my pds/knot. i have a continuous backup of my atproto movements. i wrote a little blog post on leaflet.pub, which is an atproto blogging tool. as i said in the blog post, this personal site is hard to use when i'm writing on my phone, so that's a means of getting long-form thoughts out when i'm consumed by them, but after cohost it was hard to say "yes, let me blog again somewhere new and lose all of it in 2-5 years". now that i have a pds, all of my posts on leaflet will exist regardless of the state of that site.

i remember telling my mom about my livejournal in 2003. the idea of using a third-party site was strange to her. she was supportive, but i distinctly remember her saying "do you have copies of all those posts? what happens if the website closes?" and i was like "i could make a copy, but i'm not posting anything too important there." her fears were well-founded in general, even if my livejournal is still online 23 years later lol.

she can go to her closet and pull out her journals from her days at college or early in her marriage with my dad, read her thoughts on her life, remember the way things were with more clarity than a haggard memory. i can't do that because all my writing is online, and i only sporadically post. most times, i'm writing somewhere that will die. such is life, such is life.

i don't believe bluesky will last forever, i don't trust any tech company to do the right thing when it gets difficult, and also! i don't think 90% of the things i write are worthy of remembering. however! some things are meaningful, and their meaning is not always apparent when they're created. some art only grows with time. who are we to prejudge it?

all that to say, there's now bluesky comments when i remember to include them. don't click the button if you don't want your browser to hit bluesky's servers. if you post dumb shit, i'll block you lol.

fuck ai forever.