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@reinh it would mean i could have the same username on both mastodon and bluesky, is one interesting thing about it

@Razemix I've seen it once.

I know for a fact that it is possible to have a mastodon handle like @example.com , no second @, no "username", only the server. Does anyone you know— even one person— use this?

(If the answer is yes— are they using it as an "official status updates account for a server" or using it personally?)

@fontenot @aeva @cthos One of the expected features of an AppView is full text search. This is a primary product differentiator versus Mastodon and users will be surprised if it is absent.

@KnightMustard No. I am saying a different group of people got harassed, a few years back, and I saw people leave the Fediverse as a result. My perception, which obviously is the perception of an outsider and so not trustworthy, is that black Fedi is smaller now than it used to be.

Rudy says he's never used Fedi.

What I'm listening to today: "Hold Tight London", Chemical Brothers

This is just literally the song stuck in my head today.

Chemical Brothers are underrated TBH. They got some radio play with "Dig Your Own Hole" and I think the electronic heads (in the US?) mentally classified them as pop and tuned out. They continued making jams. I think this might be the best song they ever made. Does it stop being rock music if the guitars are sampled? *Are* these guitars sampled?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXV-jr64szI

@KnightMustard "What lead to it failing here?"

What lead to what failing?

@boris "Bsky doesn’t have auth on your account and can’t delete individual posts."

This is true in my case because I self host a PDS. Most users use a Bluesky PBC hosted PDS. In this case, Bluesky owns everything, they have the keys, the bits are resident on their servers. What prevents them from deleting a post? Aren't they legally bound to delete posts in case of DMCA takedown, CSAM, etc?

@makeworld "I don't see how this relates to my post though"

Oh, it doesn't! I was trying to do a "I don't think I can intelligently comment on that, here are the only things I can say for sure"

@jdp23 Blacksky is not only hosting a Bluesky alternative, they are *coding* a Bluesky alternative (in Rust, where Bluesky prefers a combination of TypeScript and Go). I assume(?) the combination of Rudy's statements should be interpreted to mean that the self-authored AppView is not ready yet, so he is hosting a PDS he wrote, hosting a relay he wrote, hosting Bluesky's appview and client on top of that, and he intends to replace Bluesky's appview soon. I assume.

Update: Rudy who operates blacksky.community responded to this thread on bluesky. Above I said I wasn't clear on how independent Blacksky was of the Bluesky infra. His answer is "completely". They run their own relay (which scrapes PDSes itself), the relay feeds into their own appview, the appview feeds into their own client. https://bsky.app/profile/rude1.blacksky.team/post/3lyv5rwpc722c

And since they bridge end-to-end, in my Hypothetical Example above, they *could* choose to make different moderation decisions from Bluesky PBC.

@jdp23 Rudy says they're appview and also client. https://bsky.app/profile/rude1.blacksky.team/post/3lyvbqh3m3s2e

@boris "(would also break verification of a repo and is detectable)"

What happens if I delete a post from a repo? If it can't be removed can someone then query the post from my PDS direct and get a copy of the deleted content?

@fleeky As an update, I searched on blacksky.community for "from:me blackbird" and found a post from 2024. So they have some source of older posts.

@boris "Content doesn’t get removed from the PDS it would be hidden by labels - accounts do have takedown labels applied." I could be wrong but this seems to be contradicted by actual events over the last two weeks.

"Bluesky operated relay doesn’t censor Lexicons that don’t validate" Contradicted by my own testing. Either the relay censors them or the appview does and it comes to the same thing, because when I make 301-character posts even third party tools can't see them.

@mat @eniko Well, point of order. Do I want to work together? If so, why? I have no incentive or desire to badmouth Bluesky specifically, but also, do I have any incentive to grow their ecosystem or help their corporate project? All I want to do is talk to people. The only ATP dev I've done has been because it makes it easier for me to talk people.

@dalias @erincandescent I understand how such a system would work but I would not use it for at least two reasons

@thisismissem @mat @eniko Okay, yes, that's more accurate.

@tylercook Yes, correct. If you already have a setup for hosting Docker containers standing up the PDS is *trivial*. Like, you could do it in under an hour. I don't pay per byte of bandwidth (VPS) but the load from running my PDS has been so low I don't notice it. And if it turns out to be a problem you can migrate out to another PDS.

I'm going to DM you a link to a Discord I found helpful when debugging issues with my PDS.

@mat @thisismissem @eniko The continuous event streams are HTTP. Mine are being proxied through Apache