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> built and run in Europe This looks like it's just the open source BlueSky instance and AT protocol? That's an American project and company, right? Is it ju
by petcat 8mo ago
> built and run in Europe
This looks like it's just the open source BlueSky instance and AT protocol? That's an American project and company, right? Is it just that the instance itself is run in Europe? What is "built in Europe"?
- workfromspace 8mo agoGood point. OTOH, in that sense, internet (or more specifically, WWW) is technically built in Europe, so can we say WWW is a European product? :D
- VWWHFSfQ 8mo agowww was built in Europe but the Internet itself was built in USA! :D
- petcat 8mo agoI wasn't trying to be pedantic. I was just hoping to see if it was a new and novel European social site project or if it was just spinning up an instance of an existing project.
- workfromspace 8mo agoNo worries, me too. And I agree with you as well.
- rkangel 8mo agoYes, that does seem a bit of an odd claim. Possibly they're talking about the hosting being built? That said, I don't have an issue with using a US authored open source project for this. To use another example - PostgreSQL was originally US, but I don't have any problem with that being part of the deployment of Eurosky. That said, I would prefer that the Open Source system we were using didn't have a profit making (US) company as principal maintainer. I think AT has some technical advantages over Mastodon, but I prefer the governance of ActivityPub/Mastodon.