How to self-host all of Bluesky except the AppView (for now) — alice.bsky.sh
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by Alice · 3 min read
  • Cordinel@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    22 hours ago

    Is there any public third party BlueSky storage server yet? Last time I tried setting up an account there it only showed the main instance despite all the fuss about decentralization. Or am I grossly misunderstanding how different it is from the fediverse?

    • airportline@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
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      21 hours ago
      1. As far as I know, there aren’t any yet. Even if there were, I personally wouldn’t trust them for the same reason I wouldn’t use any Mastodon instance besides mastodon.social: if the PDS shuts down abruptly, your account is gone forever.
      2. Bluesky and ATProto are designed specifically to hide the ways in which it’s decentralized.
      3. I think this post does a good job visualizing how AtProto is different from ActivityPub.