@medus4.com It's not private or decentralized though is it?Everything is public and there's a central point of censorship for governments to target in the firehose, no? The PDSs and custom domain names are a great start though.
Hey @mauve.moe - there are multiple people running firehose (relay) instances. It’s an optimization (pulls from all the PDSs) and not hard or expensive to run. And pretty hard to censor because we can just host more relays. All public, we’ve got to work on private data sooner rather than later.
@bmann.ca Do all these relays work with the main bsky app? I was under the impression the appview pulled from the main one and the app pulled from the appview. Also how else are they managing to comply with government takedown notices in the app?
@bmann.ca Excellent resources, ty for your patience explaining things. 🙇
@bmann.ca Yeah I did a talk recently where I compared ATProto/ActivityPub/Nostr so I've been a bit more involved lately. TBH I think I like the model of Nostr the most though I'm not very into Bitcoin. I'm not as into "global public square" concept than some sadly. 😅
Yeah it’s a company with legal obligations in many jurisdictions. They might make parts of their client apps pluggable but mostly people have been running clones of the codebase.