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New Twitter launches, says Musk's X gave up the name (arstechnica.com)
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[–] 10 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Yeah that's true but perfect is the enemy of good, Mastodon isn't gaining much traction so my hope is that at least we can get a federated protocol, whatever it is

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  • [–] 12 points 2 days ago* (2 children)

    Perfect is the enemy of good, but so is the desire for convenience.

    Mastodon gains less traction because it doesn't have an advertising budget, unlike Bluesky. Because Bluesky is owned by a corporation.

    Is Bluesky federated? I thought it wasn't. Tumblr also said they were going to, but then just... didn't.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    Yeah it does, though it uses their own protocol (ATprotocol) they open sourced it too

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  • [–] 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

    The AT Protocol was open from the start. It's not the issue and is actually rather clever in parts, in my limited understanding.

    The issue has more been that there was no way to run another server than the main one at first, and then that you could but it couldn't interoperate. I understand this is now something of the past, but I don't think I've ever come across a link to a bluesky post that wasn't on bsky.app.

    Looking a bit into it, it looks like all you need to do is host a Personal Data Server (PDS): https://github.com/bluesky-social/pds?tab=readme-ov-file#self-hosting-a-pds

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  • [–] 1 point 2 days ago

    PDS is just one part of the whole thing. It's just the place where your data is stored. Almost all other parts of the network are dependent on Bluesky's stack. Even the alternatives like Blacksky and Eurosky are still dependent of Bluesky's implementations like the Appview. So if Bluesky goes down, it affects the other services (in some way) too. One can host a PDS for cheap, but if you want a proper social media service (with post history, search etc), it is kind of expensive. There are other appviews, but for some reason Bluesky going down causes issues in Blacksky, Eurosky etc

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