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Scientists move to Bluesky, transitioning away from X and Meta platforms (www.dailyuw.com)
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[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

3rd party moderation tools already exists, using the same API as the official moderation system, available to subscribe to even directly in the official app. If you don't want bluesky's moderation decisions enforced, you can run a different client which don't apply the bluesky labels (or if the bluesky appview blocks something entirely, you can circumvent that and retrieve it directly from that user's PDS)

is specifically not clarified to leave open the possibility for monetization such as forcing as on users

What

The network is specifically designed around portability and content addressing so they can't lock you in

it would never be a useful alternative to the Official Bubble maintained by the Bluesky corporation that you must submit to or be left out in the cold interacting with users only on alternate, small personal networks.

There are already plenty of people running their own self hosted PDS servers to host their account, talking to the rest of the bluesky users, using 3rd party moderation filters and 3rd party clients, with 3rd party feed generators to view stuff like topic specific feeds

Also there's bridgy so you can talk across Mastodon / bluesky by letting bridgy mirror posts and replies between the two networks

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

Is the appview part of Bluesky open source? If so why not? How does that not make saying "Bluesky is open source" an inaccurate statement, or at least an incomplete statement? Can somebody reasonably run their own relay while handling a realistic amount of data from interactions?

Also there’s bridgy so you can talk across Mastodon / bluesky by letting bridgy mirror posts and replies between the two networks

A bridge is something you build and maintain, requiring constant maintenance, that joins a place that is connected with a place that is not.

is specifically not clarified to leave open the possibility for monetization such as forcing as on users What

Typo, sorry I meant to put *ads in there

https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/05/bluesky-ceo-jay-graber-is-reshaping-social-media-but-advertising-isnt-off-the-table/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto/tree/main/packages/bsky

The old design was built to scale to a few million users. The new backend is revised to handle ~hundreds of millions. They'll releasing bits and pieces at a time.