Identities are somewhat decentrallized, but it’s pretty different from ActivityPub. People can host user data separately, but it isn’t really an instance. It is technically possible to have other relays (basically instances), but requires handling all the data on bluesky to connect to it. It would cost probably 50-100k USD/year, and that number will go up as more people join or if there’s more relays.
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bobbytables@discuss.tchncs.de 8 hours ago
Okay, there’s one thing I don’t get with Bluesky: user handles usually are @[name].bsky.social. But with the bridge they end with brid.gy. The account of Ben Stiller is @benstiller.redhour.com. Are those domains different instances? I thought that’s not possible (yet?). How does one get a different domain in the handle?
underscores@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 hours ago
pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 hours ago
there a different domain option when creating a account, thats all i knowm
FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 hours ago
the .bsky.social is the main instance. The bridge acts as another instance.
For example one of my friends has a bsky account hosted on the fellas.social instance, so his username is johndoe.fellas.social
it basically works like lemmy and mastodon in that regard