Thoughts on Bluesky

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  1. pds

    Bluesky PDS (Personal Data Server) container image, compose file, and documentation

    Very well.

    > Very nice way to say "AP isn't centralized enough".

    You seem to be operating under the misconception that having large secondary indexing services in the system is the same thing as binding the system to single organizations. Anybody can run a relay or appview, same as anybody can run a PDS.

    > What's your current timeline to start accepting incoming account migrations back into the bluesky hosted PDS? When will account migrations officially be a recommended operation? Source: https://github.com/bluesky-social/pds/blob/main/ACCOUNT_MIGR...

    When the software is sufficiently tested and implemented.

    > First of all, self hosting an ActivityPub service is not prohibitively expensive, heck expensive just isn't even a word a would use at all.

    This remains true only so long as the network remains under a certain size, and your posts never go viral.

    > On the other hand, what's expensive is the cost of hosting the bluesky relay. What you're essentially doing is just taking on the burden/cost of data processing and hiding it from the end user.

    We're keeping the most valuable part of the system -- account ownership -- from having its costs bundled with application ops. It's important that there are hundreds of thousands of account hosts. It's only important that there are 5 to 10 microblogging applications, and that users can switch between them as they come and go.

    In fact, I would argue that binding user accounts to individual application instances & their governance like AP does is a massive mistake. It's much more important that you guarantee users' continuity of identity as apps come and go.

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  3. Mastodon

    Your self-hosted, globally interconnected microblogging community

    I'm kind of being doom'n'gloom, but unfortunately, this always seems to happen, and folks who previously disavowed Twitter/X when Elon took over still stuck around for 2 years.

    I don't believe the whole "I don't know what server to pick" complaint about Mastodon, because the mainsite literally has a huge button that says "Join mastodon.social"[1]

    [1] https://joinmastodon.org/

  4. snippets

    Just gonna throw out a link to this whitepaper co-authored by the now-CEO of Bluesky and one of the lead authors of ActivityPub https://gitlab.com/-/snippets/2535398

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