A small, federated compute co-op called co/core — and the wider experiment it's a part of.
How Graze built a "composable personalization" engine for the open social web — and why it matters right now.
Following up on Bryan Newbold's request for trip reports this afternoon, I wanted to weigh in and provide an abbreviated tour of the Graze architecture for feed serving, and how we built a system to deliver and bean count the delivery of 24.5b posts across thousands of feeds in the first year of operation at Graze. There's a few large scale operations in the ATmosphere, and it's our pleasure to share some of the painful lessons we learned along the way to help people on their own journeys. When Graze started in early November of 2024, we started on "God's own Postgres". In this era of compute, nobody ever got fired for going with postgres, and it seemed like a great starting point. We caught fire in that first month and were quickly on the hook for delivering something around a few million posts a day. One of the big requirements we wanted to maintain was analytics - we wanted to persist data about what we served to whom and when so we could deliver rich introspective details to our users - so we ended up persisting a ton of data about those deliveries.
How Graze is defining the next era of a decentralized, open social attention economy.
A brief tour of the S3 requestor-pays archives of the Graze turbostream and freshly-announced megastream
How Skylight & Graze are working together to build the open social FYP
If you’ve been on the site this week, you’ll have noticed that we’ve launched a full visual rebrand of Graze Social. This has been a long time in the works, and we’re so excited to share it with you all! We’re particularly delighted by the beautiful illustration that sits at the heart of it all. Make sure you read the story behind it (and pick your fave lil character!) and let us know what you think.
Sometimes the best way to explain something is to show it. So when we were building out Graze’s brand, we knew we wanted a single piece of art at the center of it all. Something layered that worked as a composition but also told a story about where we are and where we're trying to go.
A first look at the workflow automation platform for the decentralized social web.
The results are in - decentralized platforms are better for business. Read more about how we 3x'ed industry benchmarks while raising money for a good cause