Comment on Can we please stop arguing about whether Bluesky is decentralized?
hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 2 days ago
Since we have Mississippi as an example... Why not just look how it turned out for the people there? Do or don't they have a communications platform now that connects them to a network of other people? I feels that's way more helpful than discussing what should be discussed, or talking about theoretical details.
irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
If they use deer.social or zeppelin.social (alternate bluesky instances), they can evade the bans and blocks.
hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 1 day ago
Ah, thanks. And are those people then connected to the same network and can follow each other, or are those entirely seperate? Pardon my lack of knowledge aboit Bluesky and ATProto
irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Bluesky’s network has 2 main layers, the PDS layer, and the appview layer.
Everyone’s PDS stores their posts, likes and account, and handles authentication.
It doesn’t do anything else. an appview gathers posts from PDSes, and indexes and sorts them (for feeds and notifications).
AppViews all share the same posts, so they’re in the same network.