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Until I see what Bluesky's AT protocol federation looks like in practice, I'm not interested. Without federation it's basically Twitter with less users. And ev

Until I see what Bluesky's AT protocol federation looks like in practice, I'm not interested. Without federation it's basically Twitter with less users. And even after federation it might be Mastodon/ActivityPub with less users. Very disappointed in the direction they took to launch. Exclusive beta, no focus on decentralization despite that being the major selling point.

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jakebsky 3y ago
The Bluesky federation sandbox network is up and running as of months ago, which works exactly how the production network will work. The production network is also federated internally (i.e. Bluesky already runs 10 Personal Data Servers) to prove that it operates as expected. Quite a bit of the app itself is also federated: custom algorithms (feeds) are being operated by many third-party devs on their own servers, domain handles have been in use for a long time, and the API is completely open (all posts/likes, etc can be streamed from `wss://bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.subscribeRepos` in a permissionless way, see atproto.com[1] for details) It's possible to run a PDS (Personal Data Server)[2] in the dev sandbox. Federation for the production network is planned for early 2024. ASAP. 1. https://atproto.com https://atproto.com 2. https://github.com/bluesky-social/pds/blob/main/SANDBOX.md https://github.com/bluesky-social/pds/blob/main/SANDBOX.md