Comment on Scientists move to Bluesky, transitioning away from X and Meta platforms

• supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  No, aspects of the Bluesky system are open source. The moderation and filtering layer is effectively centralized, is specifically not clarified to leave open the possibility for monetization such as forcing as on users, and even if you could theoretically run your own Bluesky network… it would never be a useful alternative to the Official Bubble maintained by the Bluesky corporation that you must submit to or be left out in the cold interacting with users only on alternate, small personal networks.

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  • Natanael@infosec.pub ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    3rd party moderation tools already exists, using the same API as the official moderation system, available to subscribe to even directly in the official app. If you don’t want bluesky’s moderation decisions enforced, you can run a different client which don’t apply the bluesky labels (or if the bluesky appview blocks something entirely, you can circumvent that and retrieve it directly from that user’s PDS)

    is specifically not clarified to leave open the possibility for monetization such as forcing as on users

    What

    The network is specifically designed around portability and content addressing so they can’t lock you in

    it would never be a useful alternative to the Official Bubble maintained by the Bluesky corporation that you must submit to or be left out in the cold interacting with users only on alternate, small personal networks.

    There are already plenty of people running their own self hosted PDS servers to host their account, talking to the rest of the bluesky users, using 3rd party moderation filters and 3rd party clients, with 3rd party feed generators to view stuff like topic specific feeds

    Also there’s bridgy so you can talk across Mastodon / bluesky by letting bridgy mirror posts and replies between the two networks

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    • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Is the appview part of Bluesky open source? If so why not? How does that not make saying “Bluesky is open source” an inaccurate statement, or at least an incomplete statement? Can somebody reasonably run their own relay while handling a realistic amount of data from interactions?

      Also there’s bridgy so you can talk across Mastodon / bluesky by letting bridgy mirror posts and replies between the two networks

      A bridge is something you build and maintain, requiring constant maintenance, that joins a place that is connected with a place that is not.

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      • Natanael@infosec.pub ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        github.com/bluesky-social/atproto/tree/…/bsky

        The old design was built to scale to a few million users. The new backend is revised to handle ~hundreds of millions. They’ll releasing bits and pieces at a time.

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