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Damien

@Claire @cwebber I know the Bluesky app has a "hosting provider" field when you first sign in but idk if that just means a PDS or the "whole stack" (I assume it's just the PDS right now).

> but it's unclear what incentives you'd have to do that

Yeah, as of right now, the incentives aren't worth the trouble for 99% of people. The day Bluesky PBC starts doing controversial policy/features change then suddenly people might want to do that, but we'll see 🤷 People cite moderation as one impetus to run your own Relay but again, no clue how that'll work in practice, especially if it requires changes to the client app(s).

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Christine Lemmer-Webber

@Claire @eramdam The argument feels a bit like "Bluesky is decentralized the way that the web and websites are decentralized", which okay! It's like blogs

But then all the articles talking about how the "federation" works sell themselves as talking about... well a search engine.

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