It’s not hard to find out. It uses their own AT protocol. I don’t know if there’s a list but if I open the app, pretty much everyone I see is running on a federated server…
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kbal@fedia.io 2 months agoIs it really? Seems hard to find out. Anyone have a list of Bluesky servers other than the central one with open signups?
helenslunch@feddit.nl 2 months ago
kbal@fedia.io 2 months ago
Well, what are some popular servers? Are there several big ones?
kbal@fedia.io 2 months ago
Further searching turns up the information that "federated" Bluesky PDS instances are limited to ten user accounts each, and API usage limits which may constrain things further. So that would explain why there aren't any big ones.
So far as I can tell they do all still "federate" through the central server, not directly with each other. So there being not much point in it may also explain why it hasn't caught on.
Almost as bad as Threads, really.
ericjmorey@discuss.online 2 months ago
AT protocol doesn’t federate the way ActivityPub does. There are separations between how your dat is stored, how it is aggregated, how it is filtered, and how it is displayed. Each part can be hosted separately and federate differently with separate instances of each part. The aggregation part is the thing that is most critical and there are probably some limited independent instances of that, but BlueSky has offered no support in facilitating this beyond making their peices AT Protocol compliant. You van take what BlueSky built and try to run your own instance of the aggregation service but they provide no documentation or support. You could also build your own, but that’s difficult and I don’t think anyone is trying.
So it is federated, but no pretty much one is interested in doing the work to federate with the primary infrastructure.