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I'm now getting _this HN article_ as the top Google result for "list of public atproto relays". Weird.

Yes, I "used an incognito window". Yes, I checked on multiple devices. Yes, Google is personalized. Maybe if you search "list of public atproto relays" from East Timor you get lists of public atproto relays. But you sure don't from Seattle right now.

Google has indexed both of them, actually, you can search successfully for those two domains directly. They just don't come up when you search for "list of public atproto relays". Any other theories?
In the AI overview yeah, but do you see the sites below? I wonder if it's being tuned to prefer generating its own "list of X" implementations and downranking other peoples' lists.
Could you link it? Curious to see how buried it is for me. Personalization is one thing but on my results I'm getting Tor relays, Nostr relays, IPFS relays, and Fediverse relays and I haven't yet seen a list of atproto relays. I'm on like page 6 now.
Are any of those results a list of public atproto relays?

Ask HN: Why isn't Google indexing information about the AT Protocol?

I've been observing this for a while, where very basic queries about atproto stuff doesn't show up. But yesterday I found a query that makes it VERY obvious: "list of public atproto relays". Here's DuckDuckGo:1. https://firehose.directory2. https://atproto.at/relays3. https://atproto.wiki/en/wiki/reference/core-architecture/relay4. https://pulsar.feeds.blue5....

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Re:There Are No Instances in ATProto on Friday June 19, 2026 @04:02PM (#48602637)
Daniel Holmgren discusses this in his really good atproto ethos talk — the P2P networks are cool but incapable of delivering on what users expect from modern social media https://youtu.be/1A-0k58TfPo?si=f_d4uoz_I8kMoKDw
Re:There Are No Instances in ATProto on Friday June 19, 2026 @01:37PM (#48600978)
There are many relays, here's a list of 13 but it's not comprehensive: https://tangled.org/firehose.club/community-firehose-list/bl...

Bluesky's moderation actions are generally implemented as moderation labels which take effect at the AppView level. Sometimes they'll take down someone's PDS or censor from their relays, but I don't believe third-party relays are aware of those relay takedowns at all.

Re:There Are No Instances in ATProto on Friday June 19, 2026 @01:28PM (#48600890)
There are multiple Bluesky AppViews, Blacksky has a totally independent one. And there are multiple relays, each capable of serving a firehose.
Yep lots! Mine is a livestreaming service: https://stream.place

Also a great blogging platform: https://leaflet.pub

Here's a goal tracker: https://goals.garden

This one just dropped recently; it's 44 different atproto-related apps with a cyberpunk theme: https://www.aetheros.computer/

Lots others mentioned here: https://blueskydirectory.com/

Re:A Social Filesystem on Sunday January 18, 2026 @02:31PM (#46671290)
what if I want to publish something publicly on the internet though
Re:Open Social on Friday September 26, 2025 @03:28PM (#45390132)
Bluesky is incredibly just "sign up with a thing." Except even easier, because you don't have to pick an instance first.
Is this named after the Protoss Executor Artanis?
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2025) on Monday June 02, 2025 @01:58PM (#44161389)
Streamplace | Decentralized Video Protocol Engineer | US | Full-Time | REMOTE (Anywhere)

Streamplace is building open-source live video for Bluesky's AT Protocol as part of our mission to solve video for everybody forever. We've recently raised ~$500,000 from the Livepeer Treasury and are building our founding team.

We're in need of someone with a background in decentralized protocols and video technology. You'd be responsible for building and documenting the Streamplace segmentation and replication protocol, building out our GStreamer-based multiplatform node software, and facilitating our rollout to global low-latency platform. Our stack is primarily in Go and React Native.

More information at https://jobs.stream.place and apply with an email to [email protected].

Re:When imperfect systems are good: Bluesky's lossy timelines on Wednesday February 19, 2025 @01:26PM (#43105497)
I asked this and got

> We did a backend rewrite from postgres to scylla and it has a bunch of deployment specific stuff, but is functionally identical to the open source postgres version. Its not really a "v2" in terms of new features, we just made it make use of our hardware really well[1]

[1]: https://bsky.app/profile/iame.li/post/3l7e3jfqit22s

This is really fun.
Re:I Met Paul Graham Once on Tuesday January 21, 2025 @12:27AM (#42776912)
What social justice objective is being prioritized? By whom? Go watch the actual video — it's a flat joke about her not knowing what March Madness is but drinking Bud Lights anyway. It's completely unremarkable influencer #spon content. Her being trans isn't even mentioned.
Re:Docker Desktop Broken on Mac OS Update for over a Week on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @11:17PM (#42721137)
Been using and happy with Podman Desktop for a while now on Mac
Re:FFmpeg by Example on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @09:04PM (#42706483)
"Writing working commands first try for every single ffmpeg feature that exists" is the highest bar I've ever heard of, I love it. I'm gonna start listing it as a requirement on job postings. Like an ffmpeg speedrun.

Ask HN: Is GoDaddy falsifying WHOIS records for Aquarium.tv?

Following up on this submission. I used the example of "Smell.tv" in that post, the one I'm actually looking for is Aquarium.tv. Who cares. Snipe it from me if you want, I'm probably not buying it after all this anyway. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41393638HN, help me out here: *Is Aquarium.tv registered or not*? Because the NIC.tv WHOIS service operated by GoDaddy says it's a "Reserved...

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Re:Ask HN: Is GoDaddy lying to me about .tv domains? on Thursday August 29, 2024 @06:57PM (#41396214)
Yeah, definitely different output when the domain is actually registered. But maybe the contract with Tuvalu lets them do whatever they want, who knows.

Ask HN: Is GoDaddy lying to me about .tv domains?

I'm looking at buying a .tv domain. Let's say, for example, it's smell.tv. I did a search on whois.nic.tv, and the following comes up for smell.tv: Reserved Domain Name URL of the ICANN Whois Inaccuracy Complaint Form: https://www.icann.org/wicf/ >>> Last update of WHOIS database: 2024-08-29T17:48:44Z <<< So... reserved by the registry, yeah? Like a premium domain...

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Re:IBM nearing a buyout deal for HashiCorp, source says on Tuesday April 23, 2024 @02:38PM (#40135529)
So... was this the cause of the whole Terraform licensing change kerfuffle?
Re:Tell HN: Microsoft.com added 192.168.1.1 to their DNS record on Tuesday December 19, 2023 @07:23PM (#38703917)
Wait wait wait wait. Bunny.net accidentally changed their DNS to 127.0.0.1 and took a bunch of their CDN users down today too. Coincidence? Weird day.
Re:Discord is down on Friday December 15, 2023 @07:15PM (#38660455)
Something seems to be knocking over one server at a time which is sort of fun. Having an end-of-the-world party on one of the remaining shards!
Re:YouTube now blocking ad block on Monday October 23, 2023 @03:21PM (#37990328)
YouTube, if you're so smart, just show me the ad instead of the overlay!
Re:USB-C teardown with CT scans: Thunderbolt and more on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @01:11PM (#37931629)
Now do 5000 more.
The donoteat video on this is really informative if (like me) you haven't been taught most of this history - Black Wall Street and whatnot. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfVzbM3l7RQ
Re:Our new flagship distro: Fedora Asahi Remix on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @11:59AM (#36972688)
How does saying that they have been consistently harassed from this platform paint everyone here with the same brush?

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