Bluesky has announced that today they have started with federation, allowing anyone to host their own data on the #bluesky network.
In a blog post they announced that anyone can now host their own PDS, framing it as a way to control your own data, and also explaining how it differs from Mastodon.
Bluesky describes it as an 'early access of federation for self-hosters'.
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I am loathe to say it but the approach they describe sounds like it would solve the problem that is still baked into Mastodon: specific users seeing massive abuse attacks from the moment they join.
As @mekkaokereke (I apologize if a mention is bad, Mekka; I'll delete it in a heartbeat if you tell me) said: Mastodon is the Nazi bar. There's nothing in my power to change that and @Gargron hasn't moved on it that I'm aware of.
@ohmu@fediversereport@mekkaokereke@Gargron Luckily I've never been confronted by a Nazi on Mastodon, and I have more than two followers. It's weird that you have so many of them. No one has ever harassed me either. You're doing something else. Or did I misunderstand something...?
" Huh... It's weird that you've been confronted by Great White Sharks so often. I've surfed these beaches since I was a kid, and I've never been bitten! Not even once! Are you sure it's not something that you're doing? Are you provoking the sharks somehow?"
@hankg@fediversereport I've never understood why people here constantly damned them over not being open for federation yet, as though you can just magick finished code into existence.
For the last time, Jack did not invent Bluesky, he doesn't own it, he doesn't have control over it, he doesn't run it, and he's not even active over there, after finding out that most people there hate him.
It's NOSTR that's the pro-crypto network. The bluesky developers have been very adamant against incorporating web3/crypto.
Nothing was remotely "made in secret". ATProto has been open for a very long time
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