Comment on Let's clarify something: does Bluesky allow federated servers on their network? Is there a list of those independent servers?

ByteMe@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Blaze@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Indeed, but I’m a bit surprised there isn’t any list of alternatives servers.

  I would have to look more into the protocol specification, but it seems like this isn’t really federation, alternative servers are still relying on the central server, and that’s why nobody bothers with setting one up

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  • ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Why would someone host a server and pay for it out of their own pocket, when the protocol just turns in to an invisible piece of infrastructure that people don’t even know exists?

    AP instances allow for communities and identity to build around them, so there is a non monetary incentive to running them, but what’s the incentive to run an equivalent on AP and make it public?

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    • Blaze@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Definitely, that’s why I guess there are still no other server than Bluesky’s

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  • poVoq@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There are some people hosting their own identity server, but yes the centralisation of the main aggregator server seems to be by design as they even scare people away from trying by talking about the high resource requirements of doing so.

    IMHO Bluesky is only federated in the sense that responsibility for content and moderation can be outsourced, but the user endpoint stays mostly in control of Bluesky. This makes a lot of sense if you think about it from a company perspective… outsource the legally and personnel critical parts and keep the ones that are lucrarive for advertisement and can be easily scaled by throwing hardware at it.

    But you must be a real sucker to take them up on that very one sided offer…

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  • hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That sounds like a really dumb design idea. Why make a federating protocol if you still rely on the server? I don’t even get why they did it at all then.

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    • Blaze@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They could pretend to be federated while they’re not.

      Might show them in a more positive light to the general public

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• ReeSilva@bolha.forum ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  🎯

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