Alex Schroeder compares Fediverse and Atmosphere server costs. Fediverse allows for cheap small instances, but big ones are expensive. Atmosphere can only have expensive ones. The level of expensive is similar.

A site with statistics regarding the decentralization status of various web services

Fediverse: yes
The Atmosphere and Git forges: no

Random dev notes about work at Bluesky by Paul Frazee

Today in "our novel form of NIH," why did Bluesky create a new schema language, Lexicon, for the AT Protocol?

Today in "our novel form of NIH," why does Bluesky use the richtext facets system instead of Markdown?

// slightly simplified
{
  text: "Hello @bob.com",
  facets: [
    {feature: "mention", index: {start: 6, end: 14}}
  ]
}