Comment on Scientists move to Bluesky, transitioning away from X and Meta platforms
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 5 weeks agoIs 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.
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.