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> You can if the server is operational. And if Bluesky's servers stop being operational? Where is your data hosted?
by kibwen 3y ago
> You can if the server is operational.
And if Bluesky's servers stop being operational? Where is your data hosted?
- pierat 3y agoIts not even that. Look at Shitter and Reddit: they just turned off API access and introduced heavy rate limits to webpage loads. Good luck scraping your account details with that. Enshittification is a thing with ALL commercial services. And eventually BlueSky will have their "The sky is falling! Crank the money extraction lever." And I'd move that timeframe up a LOT if they took VC money. Feces, err, uhmm VCs want their hockeystick growth to be a hockeystick. They want their 30x , 50x, or 100x.
- AgentME 3y agoIf you or someone else has an archive of your data, then you can seamlessly port your account somewhere else. With Mastodon, I'm not sure there's an established flow for downloading your full account data, and you have to have your old server cooperate and redirect your user page to your page on your new server.
- treyd 3y agoYes there is an established flow for exporting your full account data. It comes as an easy export zip and CSVs.