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Why would you think it's not open source? The reference implementation: https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto Complete React Native Android/iOS/Web app: https://github.com/blue…

Even at scale, running a Relay should be well within the means of a motivated individual or org that is willing to spend hundreds of dollars per month. Right now it'd cost just ten…

For anyone interested, more info about Ozone is available here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39684027

Haha! Pretty sure most people on the team have seen this post, even prior to the logo choice. Speaking personally, it just strikes me as very pedantic point with not much substance…

There are no ex-Twitter devs at Bluesky and only one ex-Twitter employee who started this month. Custom feeds on Bluesky are federated so that anyone can create a new one using any…

Yes, we have an "AutoMod" system and other protections in place. But it is a cat-and-mouse game, so we expect it to be one of the challenges. But because the network is completely …

The bsky.app web app is a JavaScript app that runs in a browser. It talks to an AppView (API server) which talks to a Relay which talks to all PDS hosts on the network. There are o…

For now, yes, our network services are IPv4 only.

Okay, I get what you're saying. Yes, hosting a PDS server behind NAT is a problem. 1. The expected scenario is that people would run PDS hosts on small VMs (Digital Ocean, Vultr, A…

In fact, it's mostly inaccurate. > "the protocol has an official webpage with a waitlist and a private beta?" Both the waitlist and the private beta are gone. > "The “protocol” is …

CGNAT is for IPv4, so users can share IPs. It's pretty hard to use the internet without IPv4 access today, so it's not that much of a limitation. But we do certainly plan to make I…

> "They also mention that anyone can run another of these, but there is zero chance anyone will be able to do that." This is an odd claim since it's completely possible today and h…

Yes, it should be totally possible to build a blogging system on atproto. And the "app.bsky" API should serve as an example for almost all of the functionality required. Another re…

Sure, but Apollo made it easy for users that didn't want ads to use Reddit without them. Destroying Apollo removed that ability for most people. I'm about as anti-ads as it gets bu…

These are just the initial limits while we work out any issues. It'd be bad for everyone if the network was immediately overrun with spammers launching PDS hosts with millions of f…

Reddit destroyed Apollo so they could inject ads into the Reddit experience. Bluesky doesn't have the ability to do this. There's no API key to revoke that could stop someone else …

Currently, atproto works probably best for public social apps, like microblogging, forums, etc. So yes, it's definitely possible to build a reddit-like social app on atproto. Part …

Thanks for Caddy, Matt! Some of us on the team have been using Caddy for years, for many of our projects. Because it's so simple, sufficiently high performance, and has lots of nic…

There are a number of independent projects using atproto in various ways. There's an (incomplete) list here: https://docs.bsky.app/showcase And the protocol is documented here: htt…

Yeah, there's nothing preventing someone from running the PDS server on other distributions. The installer just does a few convenient things for you (like install Docker, opens por…

Yeah, you're right, it was. That was temporary measure during the public launch to prevent spam/abuse. We've made some improvements here recently.

Yup, it's MIT/Apache 2.0. We'll fix that. Thanks for the heads up.

This is just for a brief period during polishing/debugging since this is the first time third-party PDS hosts have been added to the network. The goal is just to help PDS operators…

Thanks Steve! You've been very fair the entire time and your feedback/thoughts have been helpful.