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Re: ATProto for distributed system engineers

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Judging by this user’s comment history, the website seems to be solarplex.xyz (be advised, it takes between 30 seconds and 1 minute to fully load the website’s 75 MB).

OT but out of 572 requests, half of them are OPTIONS. CORS is an abomination.

yes :) we also stopped maintaining the old code starting may/june after running it for about 9 months. a new version of the front end is in the works!

Re: ATProto for distributed system engineers

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Sure, but I still haven't seen people really doing that.

Which part are you referring to by “that”? There’s definitely people self-hosting their data (not a lot cause the process is pretty technical and manual atm). Note that you can always move hosts (without asking permission from the previous host) so you can start using the Bluesky hosting and then switch it.

I mean it does not seem like there's a bunch of personal data servers or web app instances people choose from, like there's in Mastodon (I know it's not the same technically). Therefore, it looks like Bluesky is much more centralized than Mastodon. I wonder if that's because it's technically harder to run your own software for Bluesky or what?

Re: ATProto for distributed system engineers

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Described as "3rd party client" and which aims as goal to connect with NOSTR: https://docs.bsky.app/blog/feature-skyfeed Twitter also had 3rd party clients until one day they turned off the switch. Around NOSTR there are no labels as "3rd party clients" because they can't lock down your data with the push of a switch nor block your use of the platform.

What's not to understand here? The PDS isn't a relay, it's a repository. The data layer is decoupled from the message passing layer, that's it.

That's decoupling, not decentralization.
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