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Scientists move to Bluesky, transitioning away from X and Meta platforms (www.dailyuw.com)

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[–] [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.