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Post deletes being complete happening soon! Thanks @jay.bsky.team! NOTE regardless of network, scraping happens and can't really be stopped. For years a bot reposted my every tweet. Please be careful. BlueSky is a playground - not a different universe - even if we rejoice in momentary reprieve.

yes, people should treat data here like it’s the public web. we had a long discussion today about whether/how to discourage scraping/archiving — @pfrazee.com?

yeah I'm gonna go Big Technical on this one

every user in atproto has a signed data repository, which is quite similar to a git repository. changes get written in commits and each repository maintains a history (commit log) we do that because the network is largely pull-based, and maintaining the history makes catchup sync efficient

designing the data repository is a bit of an art, because it's a merkle tree and you're balancing the size of proofs for a given record or subset of the data against the flexibility of the data it contains. @dholms.xyz is your guy on how all that works

What was the most challenge part in finding the balance between proofs and subset?