#bluesky
@pfrazee.com from #bluesky writes about how decentralization in #atproto compares to the architecture of ActivityPub and networks like Nostr: https://www.pfrazee.com/blog/practical-decentralization
The goal of decentralized social media is not to be another network like the massive ones that already exist, but to replace them all. Really to have them all become part of the universal social network.
If you're not afraid of a company somehow becoming the focal point of that enormous thing, perhaps where most people come to search it or see what's trending, you're not paying attention.
After about twelve hours, the same post had received more than 300 shares and likes on Mastodon, while it had only been shared three times and liked four times on BlueSky.
I'm no social media expert, but it's amazing how reluctant people are to use Mastodon because of its lack of reach and interaction.
If we bring more people here, the Fediverse could become the de facto public square.
https://mastodon.social/@leavex/116127855796326212
Discord open sourced their internal trust and safety rules engine with @roost and has now reintegrated it into production!
Osprey now handles around 400 million actions per day in production at Discord. If you run a Discord-sized platform (or anything smaller!), you can just… use their automated rules engine yourself because it’s open source.
https://discord.com/blog/osprey-open-sourcing-our-rule-engine
@pfrazee.com from #bluesky writes about how decentralization in #atproto compares to the architecture of ActivityPub and networks like Nostr: https://www.pfrazee.com/blog/practical-decentralization
After about twelve hours, the same post had received more than 300 shares and likes on Mastodon, while it had only been shared three times and liked four times on BlueSky.
I'm no social media expert, but it's amazing how reluctant people are to use Mastodon because of its lack of reach and interaction.
If we bring more people here, the Fediverse could become the de facto public square.
https://mastodon.social/@leavex/116127855796326212
I've written a very long blog post about #Bluesky 🙂 It's my "user's guide" that talks about what Bluesky is, what's good to know when you're just starting, the apps & tools that you may want to try, and what about the things that aren't ready yet: https://mackuba.eu/2024/02/21/bluesky-guide/
(This is rather user-focused with not much technical details, I will also write something from a developer's perspective later)
A complete guide to Bluesky 🦋
Bluesky and Wide Decentralization
Contrary to current perceptions, Bluesky can not be widely decentralized because full independence on AT Protocol simply costs too much. This is not something that can be fixed. It is based on the inherent architecture of the protocol.
All ATProto components rely on some very expensive network resources, accordingly there will never be very many, making these resources points of centralization.
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Discord open sourced their internal trust and safety rules engine with @roost and has now reintegrated it into production!
Osprey now handles around 400 million actions per day in production at Discord. If you run a Discord-sized platform (or anything smaller!), you can just… use their automated rules engine yourself because it’s open source.
https://discord.com/blog/osprey-open-sourcing-our-rule-engine
@matrix is doing just that by integrating Osprey into their policy servers for automated rules and investigations. Users of the open source, decentralized alternative platform will be safer, too, thanks in part to @roost. 😉
Bluesky is also already using Osprey to handle tens of millions of daily events, tackling real-time social media issues like scams, spam, and more.
https://roost.tools/blog/how-bluesky-transformed-their-safety-operations-with-osprey/
It’s an exciting time for open source trust and safety!
Discord open sourced their internal trust and safety rules engine with @roost and has now reintegrated it into production!
Osprey now handles around 400 million actions per day in production at Discord. If you run a Discord-sized platform (or anything smaller!), you can just… use their automated rules engine yourself because it’s open source.
https://discord.com/blog/osprey-open-sourcing-our-rule-engine
Blacksky has already built their own ATProto stack that's fully independent from Bluesky.
Now Eurosky is making progress as they roll out their own PDS.
I see more independent infrastructure springing up on https://atp.fyi/network, including AppViews.
For anyone hoping that we'll get another wave of people coming to the fediverse once Bluesky folds/enshittifies, that might not necessarily be the case as people will have more options to stay in the Atmosphere.
Arguing whether Bluesky is "really" decentralized is increasingly becoming a moot point.
"full-network atproto relay on a $4.20/mo VPS"
https://bsky.app/profile/bad-example.com/post/3mfkrfvy3ok2u
Running a PDS on a Raspberry Pi.
https://justingarrison.com/blog/2024-12-02-run-a-bluesky-pds-from-home/
"A Bluesky appview focused on low resource consumption"
