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We moved our Bluesky data to Eurosky

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Re: We moved our Bluesky data to Eurosky

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Post by pelagicAustral »

I'm left wondering if maybe all the years I spend tinkering with Linux servers and self-hosted infrastructure are just about to pay off big time now that there is a massive move for governments and institutions to take control of their infrastructure... You still pretty much need a human to spin and maintain infrastructure, wire things securely, and monitor... Now I just need to wait until someone rebrands sysop into something cool sounding like Sovereign Re-orchestration Professional, or Reacquisition Specialist... Data Nationalisation Champion

Re: We moved our Bluesky data to Eurosky

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Post by dotcoma »

pelagicAustral wrote: post #2

I'm left wondering if maybe all the years I spend tinkering with Linux servers and self-hosted infrastructure are just about to pay off big time now that there is a massive move for governments and institutions to take control of their infrastructure... You still pretty much need a human to spin and maintain infrastructure, wire things securely, and monitor... Now I just need to wait until someone rebrands sysop into…

SDS, Sovereign Data Specialist ;)

Re: We moved our Bluesky data to Eurosky

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Post by toomuchtodo »

pelagicAustral wrote: post #2

I'm left wondering if maybe all the years I spend tinkering with Linux servers and self-hosted infrastructure are just about to pay off big time now that there is a massive move for governments and institutions to take control of their infrastructure... You still pretty much need a human to spin and maintain infrastructure, wire things securely, and monitor... Now I just need to wait until someone rebrands sysop into…

Cloud repatriation engineer, infra sovereignty strategist. Are sysadmins back? Too early to tell imho.

https://xkcd.com/705/

Re: We moved our Bluesky data to Eurosky

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Post by dotcoma »

toomuchtodo wrote: post #5
pelagicAustral wrote: post #2

I'm left wondering if maybe all the years I spend tinkering with Linux servers and self-hosted infrastructure are just about to pay off big time now that there is a massive move for governments and institutions to take control of their infrastructure... You still pretty much need a human to spin and maintain infrastructure, wire things securely, and monitor... Now I just need to wait until someone rebrands sysop into…

Cloud repatriation engineer, infra sovereignty strategist. Are sysadmins back? Too early to tell imho. https://xkcd.com/705/

You win. Cloud repatriation engineer.

Re: We moved our Bluesky data to Eurosky

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Post by jrm4 »

And what does this do safety/privacy-wise?

Nothing, except make it more available.

This is why I often argue against (or at least want to point out the dangers of) the ATProto/Bluesky model.

It's an absolute boon for people who want heavy surveillance, government or otherwise.

The looseness and "unreliability" of protocols like Mastodon ironically make them safer.

Re: We moved our Bluesky data to Eurosky

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Post by skybrian »

goody71 wrote: post #3

So the "news" here is they're hosting their own PDS? I think that was the main point of Atmosphere and Bluesky was just a popular gateway to get people into it. Unless I'm missing something else...

That's the plan, but to get to actual decentralization, one of the steps is for more people to actually move their PDS's somewhere other than Bluesky.

(They are not self-hosting; Eurosky is doing it.)

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