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fig (aka:[phil])
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art and transistors, they/them plant-mom building community infra

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thanks! on different days i feel like it’s either pretty good or too much heh
November 13, 2025 at 2:29 AM
bit under 500GiB

it got to the first 1B backlinks on a 4GB pi4 with sata ssd over usb, but i don’t think it would do well at current scale on the pi4 anymore. rocks got memory hungrier for one.
November 13, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Reposted by fig (aka:[phil])
I fell into the deepest rabbithole on this stuff in 2023 and came out with 40k words on what exactly Meta did to enable and promote that genocide, and if you haven't read very far into the whole story, I can pretty much guarantee it is worse than you think it was.

erinkissane.com/meta-in-myan...
Meta in Myanmar (full series) - Erin Kissane's small internet website
The landing page for the full series on Meta in Myanmar.
erinkissane.com
November 12, 2025 at 7:07 PM
yes! (backfill coming soon ™️)

it's everything since about february this year
November 12, 2025 at 11:26 PM
little rust app on a pi5 (16GB), rocksdb on nvme
/microcosm-rs/constellation at main · @microcosm.blue/microcosm-rs
Constellation, Spacedust, Slingshot, UFOs: atproto crates and services for microcosm
tangled.org
November 12, 2025 at 11:25 PM
(shh don't tell anyone we crossed the line on the temporary fallback machine while the pi5 gets a re-image)
November 12, 2025 at 11:24 PM
rocksdb on a lil nvme
November 12, 2025 at 11:23 PM
btw constellation doesn't just index at-uris (+ raw dids), but *every* kind of URI that can be parsed, like:

all references to a web page like `https://example.com`: constellation.microcosm.blue/links/all?ta...

`javascript:
yep even network gets wild, it’s about 24h just to transfer 1PiB if you can saturate a 100gigabit (100!) pipe
November 12, 2025 at 6:50 PM
this is much faster than 1Gbit/sec of data input, so saturating the network interface for backfill feels plausible :)
November 12, 2025 at 6:31 PM
wildly exponential

average car size: 1.0MiB
*median* car size: 0.05MiB
November 11, 2025 at 5:28 PM
very reasonable question! no it does not.
November 11, 2025 at 5:21 PM
side-quest from full-network spacedust backfill (a side-quest for constellation backfill): complete
November 10, 2025 at 9:14 PM
!!!!!!!! omg thank you!!!!!!! it’s so goood
November 9, 2025 at 9:24 PM
i think there could be a version that’s very explicitly framed on smoke signal as “here’s the conversation happening about this event on bluesky”

if that’s not the vibe for the smoke signal view i’d say separate lexicon. i wouldn’t expect my website comments to show in peoples’ feeds.
November 7, 2025 at 11:40 PM
im very very very very overdue to write this 😭
November 5, 2025 at 11:07 PM