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Comment on How decentralized Bluesky is compared to the Fediverse.

Rivalarrival@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Yes. The relevant metric:

99.55% of posts are on a single instance. That is not “federated” in any meaningful sense.

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Kirk@startrek.website ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I’m moreso curious if it federated in a literal sense. Is it even possible to participate without using bsky.app’s servers?

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- f314@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  
  Self-hosting a Bluesky PDS means running your own Personal Data Server that is capable of federating with the wider Bluesky social network.
  
  Seems like it
  
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  - Kirk@startrek.website ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    A PDS still requires BlueSky’s servers
    
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    f314@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Oh, I misunderstood. So you mean federating with their network from other software implementing the AT Protocol? From skimming the docs it looks like it should be possible as long as you implement the correct schemas, but I didn’t dive very deep.
    
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    Natanael@infosec.pub ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    No it doesn’t. If other people on bluesky servers want to see your content then obviously it will go through bluesky servers, but if you connect to a 3rd party relay and use a separate appview like zeppelin.social and use DID:Web for account ID then nothing involving the bluesky servers was used and it still behaves like native
    
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- roofuskit@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Yes, very recently Black Sky launched. Much too late to make any difference.
  
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