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Re:Show HN: Falcon – Chat-first communities built on Bluesky... by Muhammad523 on Tuesday February 24, 2026 @10:15AM (#47138195)
You know having a license for your project is a good thing, do you? I strongly encourage you to use GPLv3. Anyways, were you so lazy you generated the README.md with AI, or did you put actual effort in it? And why the AT protocol?
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Re:Show HN: Falcon – Chat-first communities built on Bluesky... by JohannaWeb on Thursday February 26, 2026 @01:17AM (#47162528)
I’m already using GPLv3 — I want Falcon to stay open and for improvements to remain in the commons rather than becoming closed forks.

The README wasn’t AI-generated. I wrote it and iterated on it a lot — though I’m sure it still reads rough. The goal right now is clarity over polish.

Re: AT Protocol — the main reason is identity portability.

Most dev communities today are anchored to a platform (Discord/Slack), not to an identity layer. If a server disappears, the community graph fragments. AT gives:

DID-based identity

portable handles

a protocol-native social graph

I’m exploring whether that can support communities that aren’t tied to a single host.

Still very early — a lot of this is experimental.

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