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Blaze@lemmy.zip 3 days agoIt’s a platform using AT Proto (the protocol Bluesky uses), independent but still connected (think about Lemmy instances). That way they can apply their own moderation policies and don’t have to follow Bluesky censorship.
There is another one coming up: northskysocial.com/posts/about
flamingos@feddit.uk 3 days ago
It’s not really connected in the same sense two Lemmy instances are connected. They’re able to pull in the same data as Bluesky as it’s all public and PDSs don’t really have the ability to block a relay from crawling them.
Blaze@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
Indeed, I was just giving a broad analogy, thank you for adding more details
flamingos@feddit.uk 2 days ago
A better analogy would probably saying it’s like Bing/Google. They’re independent of each other but broadly what’s on one is on the other.
thenexusofprivacy@piefed.social 2 days ago
At the app level (blacksky.community / bsky.app on the web) it's more like TweetDeck/Twitter: different client interfaces to the same underlying network. That's not a perfect analogy though because Blacksky makes different moderation decisions than Bluesky.
But also, people using either of these apps can store their data in arbitrary PDSs, so when people migrate their accounts to the Blacksky PDS they can use either of the apps. So there it's more like Piefed/Lemmy -- different implementations of the same protocol. Again though it's not a perfect analogy because the AT Protocol architecture lets you migrate all your data between PDSs seamlessly, and so far only a few niche ActivityPub implementations support that (Hubzilla et al with nomadic identity, ActivityPods using Solid Pods).
Blaze@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
Interesting