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>>aendru+(OP)
For those not getting the context(like me), this seems to be about the Bluesky Social(https://bsky.app/), a twitter alternative.

>>sidmit+72
Further context: Bluesky lets you use a domain name you own as a user handle.

The official method is to set a TXT record, but apparently their "AT protocol" also lets you confirm a domain by serving `GET your.domainname.com/xrpc/com.atproto.identity.resolveHandle`

and `xrpc` was available as an S3 bucket name :)

>>pyentr+d7
Stunning that there are (were) any 4-char bucket names left.

>>mwint+s9
Path based bucket addressing isn't supported anymore, so this must be a legacy bucket: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-s3-path-deprecation-...

>>ec1096+4k
The person who did it is in this thread, and apparently you are not correct. It was created yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35821113

(I don't know anything about this personally, but since a lot of people are indicating an interest in this detail of the story, figured I'd try and surface that link better!)

>>stevek+9q
Thanks!