one thing I do like about the Following / replies change discussion is that it seems everybody is on the same page that defaults matter, and that the default/popular experience impacts the whole network.
rollercoaster of a day!
the bluesky relay is holding up fine at the moment, but a couple infra notes:
would be great if consumers can set a user-agent so we can informally differentiate and understand load patterns
backfill requests are more expensive than keeping up with stream
rolling out basic AP support a small step at a time works very effectively for PR!
I know facebook claims this is about legal/reputation risk, but i'm pretty skeptical. they have found a way to get positive press over a multi-year time frame for very little practical interop (and zero adversarial?)
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