Okay I’m up to 30k records per second backfilling into mysql on a framework desktop. The sync tool can do up to 40k/s. Going to try a few more tweaks but that’s not bad. After that I need to let it rip longer and see how it degrades. So far I’ve been stopping at 10M records.

I mentioned this a week ago and got a few "no thanks grandpas" - which, fair, I get it. But people want to find their friends! We resolved not to touch this until we could reasonably solve enumeration attacks and consent from all parties. I'm optimistic, but we're presenting for scrutiny now RE:

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AT Protocol Developers (@atproto.com)

"Find friends by phone" is a common tool in social networks. We're proposing a secure scheme and requesting comments from the dev community. Goals...

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I'm benching backfills into a mysql database. Other than batch inserts, any suggestions on maximizing performance?

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This applies to jokes. At 1k likes you have to do a followup leaflet explaining the joke RE:

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brendan (@schlage.town)

wow, new rule of posting / emergent atmosphere best practice: anytime you make a bluesky post with ≥ 1k likes you *have* to write a leaflet post...

Bikeshed time. What should we name this tool: A sync engine which is told which collections and dids to sync, then fetches from the network and produces an event stream for your app (cc [@dholms.xyz@bsky.brid.gy](

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What Zach is describing is basically how Bluesky works! RE:

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Zach Weinersmith (@zachweinersmith.bsky.social)

Do you think there's a world, that didn't happen, in which social media was built into an internet protocol? So, meaning... individuals release co...

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