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Reply on Bluesky and Decentralization
This is a reply to Christine Lemmer-Webber's thoughtful (and widely read) "How decentralized is Bluesky really?" blog post. I am so happy and grateful that Christine took the time to write up her thoughts and put them out in public. Her writing sheds light on substantive differences between protoco...
ActivityPub, Secure Scuttlebutt, and other social web and dweb projects previously demonstrated it is feasible to build network systems which don't involve big expensive servers. atproto helps turn these extensions and "views" into commodity API services, and ensures that new providers have full easy access to data needed for indexing (in contrast to the many challenges with web crawling). A specific form of scale-down which is an important design goal is that folks building new applications (new Lexicons) can "start small", with server needs proportional to the size of their sub-network.
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