It's interesting to see a lot of the proposed solutions to the problems botsin.space faced are solved problems on AT and part of why Bluesky made their own protocol instead of using AP.
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It's interesting to see a lot of the proposed solutions to the problems botsin.space faced are solved problems on AT and part of why Bluesky made their own protocol instead of using AP.
Yeah, it's weird that every instance has to have a copy of every file, usually on expensive cloud storage. A shared resource would help there!
Like an AT relay, so instances (PDSes) only have to carry files and posts for people on them, and the bulk of load is on those relays since PDSes aren't usually accessed directly. They're like a CDN for federated systems.
I don't think it necessarily has to be either/or, as I've written about: https://kyefox.com/beyond-mastodon-and-bluesky-toward-a-protocol-agnostic-federation/
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@[email protected] said in It's interesting to see a lot of the proposed solutions to the problems botsin.space faced are solved problems on AT and part of why Bluesky made their own protocol instead of using AP.:
Yeah, it's weird that every instance has to have a copy of every file, usually on expensive cloud storage. A shared resource would help there!
That's funny you consider that a protocol deficiency.
It's not specified by ActivityPub at all. It's completely a Mastodon-ism.
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@julian I said nothing about the protocol. This is about Mastodon, and a specific Mastodon instance, and a thing that could help Mastodon, and instances like it.
