BeAware
@BeAware@social.beaware.live
#Twitch :twitch: and #Kick :kick: #streamer. Taking an indefinite break. I post a LOT of #AIart with the assistance of #midjourney. I am your typical hippie and :weed: smoker. Follow me for a variety of topics like #gaming; comments and opinions on tech news; World news opinions; occasional self-loathing and #depression messages. VERY #ADHD. Sometimes my thoughts aren't organized. If this isn't your thing, just keep moving, or block, I really don't care :) #fedi22 tfr
- Comment on Let's clarify something: does Bluesky allow federated servers on their network? Is there a list of those independent servers? 2 months ago:
@xnx I certainly cannot. I'm on my own instance and there's like 20,000 instances. Someone can *attempt* to yeet me. They'll have a hell of a time getting admin privileges to all instances though.
- Comment on Let's clarify something: does Bluesky allow federated servers on their network? Is there a list of those independent servers? 2 months ago:
@xnx to each their own.
The anarchist in me doesn't feel right having a corporate overlord who can :yeet: me from existence whenever they choose.🤷♂️
That's not important to everyone and that's fine. We are all different.
- Comment on Let's clarify something: does Bluesky allow federated servers on their network? Is there a list of those independent servers? 2 months ago:
@xnx well, it doesn't really matter their reasoning when the end result is the same.
It won't become truly decentralized with these things in the way.
- Comment on Let's clarify something: does Bluesky allow federated servers on their network? Is there a list of those independent servers? 2 months ago:
- Comment on Let's clarify something: does Bluesky allow federated servers on their network? Is there a list of those independent servers? 2 months ago:
@blue_berry TBH I think our biggest strength here is decentralization, but every day we're inching closer and closer to centralization here in many ways and most don't care.
Mastodon controls how 73% of users interact with Fediverse. Threads, if it fully federates will completely take that over, but then we have 2 corporate entities in charge here and there's nothing any of us are doing about it.
They will be able to enact change in AP that most other softwares can't and effectively completely change Fedi as we know it.
- Comment on Let's clarify something: does Bluesky allow federated servers on their network? Is there a list of those independent servers? 2 months ago:
@mark thank you for the compliment and assurance friend.
I am always self conscious about my long winded replies because sometimes even I wouldn't wanna read a post that long.
Though, with topics like this that I'm very passionate about, I feel it's very important to lay out all the information and knowledge I have so that others can make informed decisions themselves based on the most important details.
I discuss Fediverse and networks like it, literally constantly and there's LOTS of nuances with these systems that need lots of explanations.
- Comment on Let's clarify something: does Bluesky allow federated servers on their network? Is there a list of those independent servers? 2 months ago:
@Drunemeton you're welcome, and thank you for the reassurance, friend.🫡
- Comment on Let's clarify something: does Bluesky allow federated servers on their network? Is there a list of those independent servers? 2 months ago:
@Blaze no problem, friend.
I always worry if my long winded answers make sense to neurotypical people as I'm ADHD and slightly autistic.😅
So I hope it does make sense, at least even partially.
Overall, they're mostly centralized because there's *very* few relays and they're required infrastructure, but decentralized in other ways, which may or may not matter in the bigger picture because of this previous information.
- Comment on Let's clarify something: does Bluesky allow federated servers on their network? Is there a list of those independent servers? 2 months ago:
@tengkuizdihar well, it's not difficult to federate, it's difficult to seperate your identity from BlueSky itself, if you're trying to create something on ATproto.
I doubt you'll see big news about a service using ATproto, the way Fedi platforms do, besides BlueSky because they really don't want you to differentiate that way.🤦♂️
- Comment on Let's clarify something: does Bluesky allow federated servers on their network? Is there a list of those independent servers? 2 months ago:
Long winded, nuanced answer, ready your eyeballs:
It's a bit complicated, but since we're on Fediverse and at least somewhat familiar with how things work here, I'll try to explain with that comparison in mind.
On Fediverse, instances are in control of the user data directly. To "migrate" your account, you'd be switching instances and admins entirely.
BlueSky splits things up quite a bit more.
There, you can host your own "PDS" or Personal Data Server. That hosts your account and post info only.
Then, there's the "AppView". In comparison to Fediverse, these are like Lemmy, Mastodon, Mbin, etc. Right now, there's VERY few Appviews to choose from.
Then, there's the "relay". Which to Fediverse, the only thing similar is also relays, but they work differently. On BlueSky, they relay every post and interactions of all the PDS data that connect to AppViews. I do not think there's a choice on *what* is relayed, just a huge firehose. That being said, they're not optional like Fediverse. To complete the network, relays are required on ATProto and apparently could be expensive to host, so right now, it appears the only relay is hosted by BlueSky the company. Which makes things slightly centralized.
Now, that we have those definitions out of the way, this is where things get a bit muddy and a bit of purposeful corporate created confusion for purpose of selfishness is quite apparent.
Right now, there's very few AppViews. The ones I'm aware of are, BlueSky itself, Whitewind, and Frontpage.xyz.
The confusion happens because BlueSky, the company, doesn't separate the fact that accounts hosted on self-hosted PDS, aren't technically Bluesky accounts, they're ATproto accounts. Everywhere you look to login, it says "login using your BlueSky account". I can only assume they're doing this on purpose so that anyone who tries to make an Appview, host a PDS, AND a relay, can't have their own "identity" like different instances and platforms have here on Fedi.
That will confuse people and make them think *everything* is just hosted by BlueSky the company. However, as we've now established, there's definitely a separation of "Bluesky" the company, "BlueSky" the AppView that you can login to using your "BlueSky" account, which doesnt technically have to be hosted by anything related to BlueSky.
I hope this all makes sense and you can tell that *technically* things are decentralized for the most part. It's just that BlueSky is purposefully muddying their own definitions of things so that anyone that tries to build on ATproto, has a hard time making themselves known as *not* bluesky due to the way they conflate all these definitions.
Sorry for the huge post and hope it makes sense in some way.
Thanks for reading.😁👍
- Comment on 3 months ago:
They said 'full federation by the end of 2024' but who the hell am I kidding, we can't trust a thing they say...🤦♂️
We can only wait and see.
- Comment on 7 months ago:
@atomicpoet @zuck @fediversenews
@mosseri is technically here and I thought he comes here to read stuff like this, but I'm not sure.🤷♂️🤦♂️ - Comment on 7 months ago:
@AvonVilla @atomicpoet @fediversenews again missing my point...
Defederation is a response action. Something that one has to know about specific activity that would make them want to defederate. If you don't know, you can't defederate...your PUBLIC data is public. Blocking meta won't change that and they aren't the only bad actors in the world with access to your public data via Federation. We federate by default, meaning your data is exposed by default, to Meta, or anyone else that isn't defederated...
It's fine though, you keep dodging the point and it doesn't matter anyway because you got what you want and so do I. Have a good day.
- Comment on 7 months ago:
@AvonVilla @atomicpoet @fediversenews you literally were SO close to my point, but missed it....
ANYONE can do federation and "steal" your data. Nobody has to make an account that shows who they really are. I can make an account with all kinds of lies and fake info, then follow anyone I want and use their posts however I want and they wouldn't have a clue....
- Comment on 7 months ago:
@AvonVilla @atomicpoet @fediversenews that's the thing.... ANYONE can do those things. It doesn't take lots of money to view RSS feeds or make something automated to store data from RSS feeds....anyone can do any of these things at any time.
If you're not okay with literally anyone getting your data, the only option you have is to make your profile private.
- Comment on 7 months ago:
@atomicpoet @fediversenews really cool to see @julian @devnull get some publicity. I'm so excited for stuff like this. AP needs more variety of types of services just to show off what this awesome protocol can do!
Microblogs are just the beginning, I'm sure.
- Comment on Reddit must share IP addresses of piracy-discussing users, film studios say 9 months ago:
@fatalicus not if it's hosted in china🤷♂️
- Comment on Reddit must share IP addresses of piracy-discussing users, film studios say 9 months ago:
@L4s aww hell nah! I'm so glad I got out of that place!🖕
- Comment on The Weekly 'What are you playing?' Discussion - 10-08-2023 1 year ago:
@quinten just started getting into #wowclassic and #darkanddarker. I suck at both 🤣
- Comment on Minecraft's recent EULA changes place heavy restrictions on Java servers 1 year ago:
This kills any interest I had in returning to the #game.🤦🏻♂️