Blacksky: The First Real Decentralized Bluesky Platform?
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Blacksky: The First Real Decentralized Bluesky Platform?
This account has been highly critical of #Bluesky for misleading marketing on the present state of their decentralization, but there are real decentralization efforts afoot.
Perhaps most exciting is #Blacksky. Blacksky started as a moderated feed to address the specific safety needs of Black users on Bluesky and is now evolving to host its own data (PDS) and even maintain an AT Protocol relay.
Latest on Blacksky: https://newpublic.substack.com/p/how-blacksky-grew-to-millions-of
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Blacksky: The First Real Decentralized Bluesky Platform?
This account has been highly critical of #Bluesky for misleading marketing on the present state of their decentralization, but there are real decentralization efforts afoot.
Perhaps most exciting is #Blacksky. Blacksky started as a moderated feed to address the specific safety needs of Black users on Bluesky and is now evolving to host its own data (PDS) and even maintain an AT Protocol relay.
Latest on Blacksky: https://newpublic.substack.com/p/how-blacksky-grew-to-millions-of
@mastodonmigration Heard about it a while ago and still don’t believe they can pull this off. Host your own PDS, fine, that’s not too complex, some FLOSS devs do this for their own profile. That would still be very dependent from the Bluesky network.
To be really independent, they would need an own BSG/relay, and this is just too expensive, it’s madness to base this community on #ATProto. The articles states though that it got more doable without the need to store the entire network archive. -
@mastodonmigration Heard about it a while ago and still don’t believe they can pull this off. Host your own PDS, fine, that’s not too complex, some FLOSS devs do this for their own profile. That would still be very dependent from the Bluesky network.
To be really independent, they would need an own BSG/relay, and this is just too expensive, it’s madness to base this community on #ATProto. The articles states though that it got more doable without the need to store the entire network archive.Blacksky has been hosting their own relay for several months now, it really isn’t that expensive. And they’re developing their own AppView. They’ve spent a lot of time investigating and building stuff on the AT Protocol, and clearly don’t think it’s madness to use it as a base - in fact one of Rudy’s early posts talked about why he saw it as a better match for his community-focused goals than ActivityPub.
