I’m about to stop using the terms “centralized” or “decentralized” because they’re not useful. The whole thread this is in has completed my radicalization
@aviva.gay has a soft fork of the client, https://deer.social which is designed to be especially easy to run locally. But moreover what Hailey is saying there is that social-app (https://bsky.app) itself didn't really go down. It was still served, and people whose accounts weren't on bluesky servers could use it.
Your pds points at an appview, what went down last week was our pdss. So even if our web frontend app AND the pdss went down, you’d be fine running your own social-app and pds
omg. While the overall tone is to be expected, I have to say I'm disappointed that those that know better didn't intervene to set the record straight when it became clear. Like the OP, for instance?
it's not OP's obligation to correct all misinfo in their replies, tho? if someone really wants to help mastodon users map the functions of a masto server to ATP then what would really help is adding a "Masto/AP equiv" column to this chart: https://notes.commonscomputer.com/indiesky#Core-ATP-Stack
the architectures are quite different, and "self-hosting a PDS makes you completely independent of bsky PBC" is equal and opposite misinfo in the other direction, IMHO, or at the very least counting unhatched chickens.
Agreed! The two protocols' complementarity should be celebrated, and their difference in maturity should be understood. Instead we get... whatever tribal nonsense this is.
Agreed, one can't correct everyone. But she knows this stuff incredibly well and has a deserved leadership position. Silence as the ignoramuses pontificate themselves into a self serving frenzy is not a good look.
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my sympathies to hailey but also lmao
Can I just run social-app locally (got that working) and point it at my own pds/vps (not quite there) without running indexing infra?
I thought social-app depended on the Bluesky API
I just want to crawl into a hole at this point...
Oh thank god I didn't do that
I wish I'd had the foresight to hashtagify it...
Whether it is confidently wrong, or confidently right.
https://notes.commonscomputer.com/indiesky#Core-ATP-Stack