@box464 Ok nice, so what's the advantage of running your own PDS? Can you shape your local community in any unique way or enforce PDS-specific rules?
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I compared the architectures of AT Protocol (Bluesky) and ActivityPub (Mastodon, etc.)You can see the tradeoffs between complexity and: - The ability to get a global view of the network. -
I compared the architectures of AT Protocol (Bluesky) and ActivityPub (Mastodon, etc.)You can see the tradeoffs between complexity and: - The ability to get a global view of the network.@santisbon @mackuba @boris If you own your own Mastodon instance it cannot be shut down by anyone but you, same as the PDS right?
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I compared the architectures of AT Protocol (Bluesky) and ActivityPub (Mastodon, etc.)You can see the tradeoffs between complexity and: - The ability to get a global view of the network.@santisbon @mackuba @boris Mastodon works that way too. Your account can't be deleted if you own the instance. I'm still struggling to understand, if PDS owners aren't responsible for moderate the content they are hosting (although someone else told me they are) what's the appeal of running a PDS vs Mastodon instance?
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I compared the architectures of AT Protocol (Bluesky) and ActivityPub (Mastodon, etc.)You can see the tradeoffs between complexity and: - The ability to get a global view of the network.@mackuba @santisbon @boris Ok thanks, another possibly dumb question... what's the incentive of paying for a PDS? If you don't control the content, it's just free hosting for BlieSky inc?
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I compared the architectures of AT Protocol (Bluesky) and ActivityPub (Mastodon, etc.)You can see the tradeoffs between complexity and: - The ability to get a global view of the network.@santisbon @mackuba @boris Ok I see, earlier you made it sound like moderation was not local to a single server. So it's basically the same as Mastodon from a user perspective then correct?
Multiple servers, each with it's own Admin and content policy, and BlueSky (the company) is simply one of many.
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I compared the architectures of AT Protocol (Bluesky) and ActivityPub (Mastodon, etc.)You can see the tradeoffs between complexity and: - The ability to get a global view of the network.@boris @mackuba @santisbon This may be a dumb question but what's the point of self hosting if owners aren't able to moderate the content they host?
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I compared the architectures of AT Protocol (Bluesky) and ActivityPub (Mastodon, etc.)You can see the tradeoffs between complexity and: - The ability to get a global view of the network.@santisbon Thanks, I keep seeing people describe BlueSky as "decentralized" but if I'm understanding you correctly it looks to me like it has the *potential* to be decentralized, but nobody other than BlueSky (the company) has set it up yet, so for now it is centralized.
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I compared the architectures of AT Protocol (Bluesky) and ActivityPub (Mastodon, etc.)You can see the tradeoffs between complexity and: - The ability to get a global view of the network.@santisbon But are there any servers other than the one?
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I compared the architectures of AT Protocol (Bluesky) and ActivityPub (Mastodon, etc.)You can see the tradeoffs between complexity and: - The ability to get a global view of the network.@santisbon Can you help explain something that's been confusing me? I'm trying to understand the functional, tangible, benefit to the Bluesky design if the content is still centrally moderated? It looks to me to just be Twitter with extra steps?