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Pluralistic: Bluesky and enshittification (02 Nov 2024) Cory Doctorow (pluralistic.net)

submitted 1 day ago by ProdigalFrog to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] BatmanAoD@lemmy.world 7 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (7 children)

What is actually missing from AT Proto to be usable in the way Doctorow describes? He writes:

Bluesky lacks the one federated feature that is absolutely necessary for me to trust it: the ability to leave Bluesky and go to another host and continue to talk to the people I've entered into community with there. While there are many independently maintained servers that provide services to Bluesky and its users, there is only one Bluesky server. A federation of multiple servers, each a peer to the other, has been on Bluesky's roadmap for as long as I've been following it, but they haven't (yet) delivered it.

But according to the source code repo, federation features are fully available, including independent servers. There's even a guide for setting up an independent server: https://atproto.com/guides/self-hosting

Edit: looks like I'm probably not missing anything, and the protocol is fully capable of what Doctorow wants, it just doesn't have any other large instances yet: https://social.coop/@bnewbold/113420983888441504

[–] i_understand@mstdn.social 3 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

@BatmanAoD @ProdigalFrog

How many relays are there?

[–] BatmanAoD@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

...how is it Bluesky's responsibility to set up an independent server? If they're the ones that set up the server, how can it be independent?

Doctorow's complaint only makes sense as a critique of Bluesky itself if he's talking about the technical aspects of AT Proto. If what he really means is just "nobody has bothered to actually deploy and maintain a fully separate relay instance", that's not a problem with Bluesky, it's an ecosystem issue that he could help by encouraging people to do that work, rather than discouraging them from learning about the platform.

I honestly don't have much stake in this fight, I'm just frustrated that, as far as I can tell, Doctorow, an intelligent person with a nontrivial following, appears to be spreading misinformation about what is or isn't possible with Bluesky.

[–] i_understand@mstdn.social 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

@BatmanAoD

If there aren't relays, then there is a reason there aren't relays.

If you feel strongly that you're right about this, then perhaps you should invest in standing up a public relay to prove your point.

[–] WanderingVentra@lemm.ee 1 points 2 hours ago

It is kind of weird thay it hasn't been done yet, but in that thread they posted it sounded like it's totally possible at the moment.

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