Gregory's ServerAt this point, it's obvious that if #bsky wanted to federate they would have done so by now.
They don't
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 @noboilerplate I think it made sense for them to focus on mimicking twitter to get as many X leavers as possible but now with this many users it will be hard to focus on federation instead of establishing a reliable income stream.   @noboilerplate imho bsky is just moneymaker and nothing more. they added support to vids only this year lol |
A bunch of extremely interesting coincidences, in no particular order:
- Mastodon had existed for 3 years before blueksy started their own competing federated protocol in 2019
- After 5 years, there are ZERO alternative bsky websites for normal people to use ('hosting a docker container' ain't it)
- DMs are not part of the AT protocol, and go via bsky
- The protocol design makes it prohibitively expensive to host your own server
- The AT protocol is not an internet standard (activitypub is W3C)
- The "discover" feed is algorithmically sorted by bsky.
- bsky stopped being a "public benefit LLC" in July 2023, when they had an $8mil seed funding round.
- Their lead investor was "Blockchain Capital".
- Who now sit on their board.π
A bunch of extremely interesting coincidences, in no particular order:
- Mastodon had existed for 3 years before blueksy started their own competing federated protocol in 2019
- After 5 years, there are ZERO alternative bsky websites for normal people to use ('hosting a docker container' ain't it)
- DMs are not part of the AT protocol, and go via bsky
- The protocol design makes it prohibitively expensive to host your own server
- The AT protocol is not an internet standard (activitypub is W3C)
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