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title: "Embracing ATProto, pt.2: Tangled Knot"
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date: 2025-09-01
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title: "Embracing ATProto, part 2: Tangled Knots and social coding"
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description: |
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You thought Github was a social coding platform? Think again, get ready to tangle!
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Built on atproto, tangled allows you to use your Bluesky identity on a (not quite yet) fully feldged git platform!
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date: 2025-09-09
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This is the post
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I recently set up my own atproto PDS, for use with Bluesky and all other atproto apps.
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If you already feel lost, check out last week's post where I wuickly explain what atproto is,
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roughly how it works, and the steps I followed to get my PDS running.
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::Bookmark{url="/posts/embracing-atproto-pt-1-hosting-pds"}
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Embracing ATProto, part 1: Setting up a PDS
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The PDS setup was an overall very smooth process.
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Bluesky and the AT Protocol are backed and built by a very competent team of well funded engineers for a few years already.
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## What's tangled?
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Tangled, on the other hand, was started only about 8 months ago, at the start of 2025 by [two](https://tangled.sh/@oppi.li) [brothers](https://tangled.sh/@icyphox.sh).
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It's a "social-enabled git collaboration platform"
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The platform has gained a lot of traction since, and the community is very much involved in the development, but for now tangled is still in alpha.
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That doesn't mean it's not usable yet.
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### What's a Knot?
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Just like plain atproto, tangled has some lingo of its own.
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In tangled, a knot is essentially a git server.
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It's sort of like an atproto PDS in the sense that it's where your data—here your code—lives.
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## Setting up a Knot
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## Setting up a Spindle