this post was submitted on 09 Nov 2024
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🦋 Bluesky Social

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Bluesky is a federated social network built on ATProtocol.

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Im going to migrate to bluesky, but i dont want to use bsky.social because too many people joining may overload it (and also many people joining the same service makes the whole network vulnerable to censorship and puts it in risk of being taken down), so im looking for alternatives, especially if they are outside the US

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

People shouldve switched to mastodon tbh (Privacy wise its better than twitter but isnt completely self hostable :/ )

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

The way federation works with Bluesky/ATProto is fundamentally different than Mastodon/ActivityPub (see these diagrams).

If you want to maintain direct control over your data just in case Bluesky shuts down, you can move your data onto a PDS (Personal Data Server) that other apps built on ATProto can still access. Currently, this is a technical process, but it will become easier as the ecosystem develops.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

CNAME user names are just vanity. You can host your own content PDS, but that’s a more complex endeavor:

https://atproto.com/guides/self-hosting