Content addressing
Natanael
joined 8 months ago
The whole architecture is built around content addressing and allowing every account hosting server (PDS) talk to multiple relays and to allowing mirroring.
The whole point is to NOT create bubbles.
People already run their own PDS servers and participate with the official bluesky network, and can talk to users there, because their self hosted PDS syncs to the bluesky relay.
If you run your own relay and appview it STILL works, and you can talk without bubbles, if you still link your PDS to the bluesky relay to make yourself visible to their users, and if you set your appview / relay to retrieve content from the bluesky relay then you see content from bluesky users too.
Self hosted relays do exist, they're just not open to the public (mostly used for archival / development currently)
The fix they're trying to implement is to make it cheaper to run relays and appviews, allowing you to run them with only partial network data, prioritizing your own social network first
By the way, those relay storage costs include indexes and not just raw data
Jack Dorsey only provided funding to bluesky while the old plan to make Twitter run on an open protocol was still in place (ironically he wanted to avoid responsibility for moderation by doing that).
He then left Bluesky completely, and never had any major influence after the initial funding.
The content is still accessible, just not via the official Bluesky servers from that region, with content addressing and signatures you can even be certain that mirror sites haven't modified any content.
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They claim to define it that way, and then immediate after accuses everybody else of racism just arguing in good faith when you're pointing out THEIR malice against minorities. "You weren't supposed to notice my victim's ethnicity is different, that means you see race and thus YOU'RE racist" is the logic you can expect.
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