cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/5484255
February 22, 2024 Bluesky writes:
Up until now, every user on the network used a Bluesky PDS (Personal Data Server) to host their data. We’ve already federated our own data hosting on the backend, both to help operationally scale our service, and to prove out the technical underpinnings of an openly federated network. But today we’re opening up federation for anyone else to begin connecting with the network.
The PDS, in many ways, fulfills a simple role: it hosts your account and gives you the ability to log in, it holds the signing keys for your data, and it keeps your data online and highly available. Unlike a Mastodon instance, it does not need to function as a full-fledged social media service. We wanted to make atproto data hosting—like web hosting—into a fairly simple commoditized service. The PDS’s role has been limited in scope to achieve this goal. By limiting the scope, the role of a PDS in maintaining an open and fluid data network has become all the more powerful.
We’ve packaged the PDS into a friendly distribution with an installer script that handles much of the complexity of setting up a PDS. After you set up your PDS and join the PDS Admins Discord to submit a request for your PDS to be added to the network, your PDS’s data will get routed to other services in the network (like feed generators and the Bluesky Appview) through our Relay, the firehose provider. Check out our Federation Overview for more information on how data flows through the atproto network.
@ericjmorey
"After you set up your PDS and join the PDS Admins Discord to submit a request for your PDS to be added to the network, your PDS’s data will get routed to other services in the network"
BWHAHAHAH YOU NEED TO FUCKING JOIN A DISCORD FOR THIS?
BWHAHAHAH
#bluesky #federation #discord
It's unclear if that's temporary (But I can't imagine them manually adding self-hosted accounts forever).
@ericjmorey Nah its techbros they'd do this indefinitely until someone gives them a better idea (they can't make original things).
I get the skepticism. I'm not all that optimistic about Bluesky myself, but they clearly already made an original thing and other "techbros" have made original things many times.
The good news is this is all openly designed and implimented so it could be used for something potentially better.
Looks like you might be wrong
@ericjmorey @doomsdayrs No, it's actually extremely clear that it is temporary…
The blog post didn't make that clear, but I see that it's repeated in other blog posts and on the Discord server.