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Yes you can run your own PDS, but not federate. Federation hasn’t been completed yet but is expected to be done in the coming 1-2 weeks. Go to https://github.c
by dgellow 4y ago
Yes you can run your own PDS, but not federate. Federation hasn’t been completed yet but is expected to be done in the coming 1-2 weeks.
Go to https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto, clone it, build and run via the makefile.
There are already some instances running but as said they do not federate at the moment.
- grose 4y agoUnderstood, thank you!
- mnd999 4y agoErr what? Federation is the whole point. This is just twitter again without it. Perhaps the aim is the idea of federation but in practice have everyone sign up to server they control.
- dgellow 4y agoIt’s in development… Federation is expected to be done in the coming weeks. The team is very small and is dealing with a lot of things at the same time. But nobody asks that you join now, just wait for federation if that’s what you care about.
- wahnfrieden 4y agoCan you share what limiting growth helps with?
- dymk 4y ago- Easier to keep up with increased demand on server resources due to user growth. - Screwing something up impacts 100k people and not 10M people. - Users have some expectation of "hiccups" in something presented as a beta product. - Prevents bots from taking over the platform as the anti-spam / anti-abuse systems mature.
- wahnfrieden 4y agoWhy are you spreading worry over a couple weeks?
- mnd999 4y agoMainly because I doubt it’ll be a couple of weeks. Saving the hard problems to the end is not how you do software engineering and this reeks of people who don’t know what they are doing. Also, I kinda want this to fail. Mastodon is the right way forward from the twitter debacle.
- wahnfrieden 4y agoMastodon won’t scale
- krapp 4y agoMastodon doesn't need to scale. Scale is about maximizing revenue with dark patterns, SEO, clickbait, propaganda and dopamine loops. Scale is the cesspool of human hatred and stupidity. Scale is you and your data being the product. Scale is a cancer Mastodon and other decentralized networks can hopefully avoid. The only thing Mastodon has to do to "win" is continue to exist and thrive in its niche while the lumbering,, centralized corporate social media dinosaurs choke to death around them.
- mnd999 4y agoIt already did.
- wahnfrieden 4y agoHardly
- dgellow 4y agoI don’t understand. Don’t you want people to have choices? Some will want to move to activitypub, others to atproto. Some will stay on centralized platforms. Why would you want another option to fail? And you may want to look at the team and how they justify their choices before arriving to a conclusion.