Looking into how to set up a bluesky server.
Noticed this bit here, in the documentation. That's an interesting way to spell "cannot"
Looking into how to set up a bluesky server.
Noticed this bit here, in the documentation. That's an interesting way to spell "cannot"
@mcc The way Bluesky works is different in many ways, when you compare it to a Fediverse system. The PDS is only one part of it and AFAIK it doesn't include the frontend. The next part is the handle and it isn't bound to the PDS - that's the difference to the Fediverse. This is a concept, that I find really nice.
However: There is a single central component in the whole concept: The handle directory. I would like to see, if Bluesky will change something about this.
@mcc I'm currently seeing it slightly like DNS. You have got centralized servers for the name resolution. The PDS directory is nearly the same. For the future independence it would be good, if that directory would be hosted by some foundation. But yeah, as long as Bluesky has got their hand on that directory, it is not an ideal situation.
Then of course one could use some independent directory, that is totally separated from Bluesky.
@heluecht I agree the portable identity is great. The rest I'm not so impressed with.
The part I would think of as "centralized" is the service that scrapes all the PDSes and filters down the subset of events a given account is interested in. Because this is by design singular, and the rest is so aggressively structureless as to resist an alternate filter design, I think this is inherently always provided by bsky or a company with at least as much money as bsky.
@heluecht It's a *little* bit like the failings of blockchain. Sure, there can be more than one blockchain provider, but since every blockchain provider is doing the exact same work you aren't getting the scalability benefits of decentralization.
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