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Jack Dorsey claims Bluesky is 'repeating all the mistakes' he made at Twitter (www.engadget.com)

submitted 6 months ago by jeffw@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] Zak@lemmy.world 35 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Even if somebody wanted to make an unmoderated ATProto app, I guess they could? Good luck with the app stores and regulators and users

ActivityPub provides the option to do just that. Anybody can spin up a server running Mastodon, Lemmy, Pleroma, etc... and moderate it however they like. There are a multitude of clients in app stores and an unmoderated server won't affect that because they're generic clients like web browsers. There are countries such a server could be hosted in with minimal regulations.

As for users... you'll probably get some and they'll probably be horrible. Most people will probably block your server.

[–] Natanael@slrpnk.net 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You can also spin up your own Bluesky PDS (the account server) since federation is live now, or your own appview (basically the feed display server that has most of the smarts) and point your app to it, or set up your own relay (CDN like server) and point your appview and even point feed generators to it (3rd party custom feeds are supported in Bluesky)

So if you don't like the decision made by anybody else you can just replace them. And yeah, just like on Mastodon nobody's going to use unmoderated appviews, subscribe to scrappy feeds, or federate with a PDS hosting only shitty people.

[–] Zak@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It seems like there are some good ideas in there. Are there third parties out there running servers for each component that are open to the public yet?

[–] Natanael@slrpnk.net 2 points 6 months ago

Yes, there's already some 3rd party reimplementations of both clients and PDS servers and feed generators (but haven't heard of custom appviews yet). I don't know anybody running an open PDS yet though, it's mostly individuals running them