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Natanael@infosec.pub 16 hours agoNo, PDS federation is fully open now.
They’re also actively supporting development of 3rd party appviews and relays.
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 7 hours ago
The power dynamic is still 1000000:1 they can do whatever they want and you will have to follow. If they defederate you, there is no value in your self hosted instance.
Natanael@infosec.pub 6 hours ago
Partially - something running independent infrastructure like Whitewind (blogging on atproto) will still work just like before (it’s easier for them to run it independently because you don’t need a full network view, just pull in the posts from the user’s PDS for standalone display)