no thank you I actually like chatting over a websocket connection instead of having to refresh a page every two minutes

yeah that was my bad I might be a little stupid.

I got confused between the relay crawling pdses to store their records for retransmission vs an appview storing records for serving them to clients. Both involve processing similar (v large) amounts of data, but the latter is actually more expensive because you’re also transforming the data to make it useful to clients, so it’s still neat they got it working on a raspberry pi

They have said that in production, their appview takes up about 30 servers while the relay takes only one. Apologies for the rude tone of the post https://bsky.app/profile/why.bsky.team/post/3lku2o3n6es22

https://bsky.app/profile/bnewbold.net/post/3lkpdjgj5pk2i

Can you explain what do you think “backfill” means in the context of the linked post?

Sorry if that sounds disrespectful but we kinda need to have shared definitions for stuff

https://bsky.app/profile/ssg.dev/post/3lmvrdmkdnc2d

Censorship requests from the Turkish government are only being applied in the official bluesky app. Third-party apps continue to show censored posts. Feels like that might be relevant

Several people have self hosted relays. Afaik nothing that anyone has used in “production”, everyone just uses the default one. I expect that will change as people figure it out, and trust in bsky pbc drops with things like the current Turkish censorship incident

Example of self hosting https://bsky.app/profile/why.bsky.team/post/3lkwg2djrfk23

The code to run a relay is here https://github.com/bluesky-social/indigo

I am functionally a pr dude for atproto (bluesky) on here because people repeat so much disinfo, and I have “someone is wrong on the internet syndrome” 😭

However, atproto and bluesky are still distinct and I am pretty appalled at a fair amount of bluesky’s recent decisions, esp this one

That’s only if you want to maintain a full archive. You don’t actually have to store a full archive to run a relay

That there are actually multiple relays. There’s no hard coded single relay, that would be ridiculous and idk why people keep repeating it

There is a hard coded relay in the official bluesky app, just like it has a hard coded moderation service. But both of those are changeable with third party appviews/clients

IP law is used to reinforce capital tho??

Purely hypothetically if musk were to become president would x then become a public website

I am betting it was already in that 40 page agreement you clicked when you singed up 😞

Neither google (at least for the first decade or so) or Amazon have such detailed data about you as facebook

I’m pretty sure there can be other bad stuff in water that existed before the industrial revolution

Bluesky’s algorithm is entirely optional and replaceable with user built algorithms

It’s not “it” that wants you to log in, the devs created the site to be entirely public. but users demanded an option to hide their profiles from logged out users. Any hidden posts are because the user explicitly set the flag in their own settings

The api endpoints are still public btw. Third party clients can see these profiles just fine :| not a fan of that decision tbh

man I feel sad seeing posts like this. We had a comparatively good society here for a bit but now a good chunk of the smart and decent people are going to emigrate. I can’t blame them but still worried about what’s going to happen to the rest of us. Wonder if this is how Germans felt in the early 1930s

Now I’m curious how do the journalists get the data to speak authoritatively, does tiktok give them special access or smth

agreed, this is really low hanging fruit for fixing society in general- services (banking but also insurance (remember Obama’s failed public option)) that everyone needs but are privately run should have competition run by the government that is publicly funded and run with the goal of break-even instead of for profit.

Let the for profit ones try to find reasons to exist then!

Other candidates for a public option: ISPs, ride-sharing services, credit rating agencies, etc etc

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