Did anyone attend #Eurosky's live conference on 19 Nov. in Berlin and can report about the state of play of that project?
Is there a schedule for when something will go online? What are the next steps? etc.
#Indiesky #FreeOurFeeds #Bluesky #DigitalCommons #SocialMedia #Atmosphere #Fediverse #ATProto #BigTech #digitalsovereignity #digital #eusummit25
The @clovyr.social team dropped by the community forum to share their #IndieSky one click hosting of a PDS discourse.atprotocol.community/t/hosted-blu... They have their own hosting or they will connect into your own account on AWS, Linode, or Digital Ocean. Drop by to ask them any questions.
It’s time to launch our first #Indiesky grant!
Today we’re announcing a $5000 grant to @transrights.northsky.social for their account data migration tools and the migration campaign for the 2SLGBTQIA+ community they serve.
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You know we're all about growing that #indiesky life, so we're excited to see these steps to make the PLC more independent!
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I think it's worth stressing that we will uncover new problems and challenges in ATProto as we try out new dynamics that do not exist in other ecosystems and it's one motivation for our #indiesky conversations.
Made a Topster of LPs to get to know me. Row 1 - Magdalena Bay - Imaginal Disk - Run the Jewels - RTJ4 - Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly - Tyler, The Creator - IGOR - Car Seat Headrest - Twin Fantasy #musicsky #indiesky #topsters #rap #postpunk #industrial #progrock #undergroundrap
This would be a great bit. I need to go set up a leaderboard for #Indiesky. cc @spookalucca.games
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Hi there, member of the ATProto Community Fund here. We've been running a series of events #IndieSky and working with non bluesky devs to get infrastructure up and running. There are non bluesky relays run both outside and in the US, same goes for AppViews and PDSes.
The topic of spinning out the PLC into its own org gets raised to the Bluesky team and their Board every few weeks in the context of #Indiesky conversations and they keep insisting that it’s coming soon.
We had an #indiesky session in June on T&S and moderation. Would love to have a follow up conversation about the current state of the art as well! (I am bummed I was out of town for TrustCon)
This came up in the last #indiesky session on moderation. ATProto is great for permissionless building, but running a service requires understanding what rules & regulations apply to your jurisdiction as well!
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I had sort of ignored Texas HB 1181, since it was so clearly unconstitutional (until today). And some of the provisions in here are craaaazy. capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/88R/... Very much now wondering what BSky is going to do. #Indiesky and non Sky hosting feeling a lot more relevant today!
Hmm, idk what is going on, but I seem to only be getting mentions from people who are following me. There are a couple of posts out of the #indiesky meeting that I've only seen cause of other visibility.
Relay-channnnn (Haiiiii), nani ga sukiiii? Thinking about diagramming for #indiesky, and how much to anthropomorphize components and what they can see.
Funding for #indiesky and honestly the whole IndieSky movement in general; I'm super inspired by the IndieSky Day following the Ahoy! conference.
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Interesting to look back at this five months later ... here's what's currently happening today in terms of decentralization the ATmosphere.
@rudyfraser.com announced today that Blacksy feeds and moderation service are now powered by our own atproto relay -- and it's an independent implementation, not using Bluesky's reference code. It's really worth reading the thread, which has a great analogy for how a relay enables custom feeds.
@edavis.dev has configured deer.social (a third-party app) to to point to a self-hosted bsky appview which reads from a self-hosted relay which subscribes to a self-hosted PDS which is where this -- as he says, "Bluesky independent from Bluesky".
@bnewbold published A Full-Network Relay for $34 a Month, updating his post from last summer. The network size has increased by close to an order of magnitude since his first post; the cost of a realy
#FreeOurFeeds is donating a $50K to the AT Community Fund to support the #IndieSky working group. The notes from last week's Ahoy IndieSky Europe give a sense of the energy here -- and also link to a bunch of other projects that sure look decentralized to me and discusses the prospects of Eurosky.
Of course, like I said in the article,
""Decentralization" means different things to different people. As the links in the Appendix highlight, people who are focusing on the (very real) concentration of power in the ATmosphere today, or the potentially-centralizing architecture of AT, find it more useful to describe Bluesky as centralized."
And the power concentration -- or "operational centralization" as Bluesky folks were calling it at the ATmosphere Conference -- is still very real. Bluesky still runs almost all of the infrastructure for the ATmosphere, and it's by far the most popular app, and most other apps (as well as Bluesky) use the Bluesky AppView, Relay, and labeler.
Then again, that's clearly in the process of changing, and it'll be interesting to see how it looks six months or a year from now.
@laurenshof @fediversereport @cyrus @cwebber @rysiek @jonny @possibledog @oblomov @rwg @Kye
Good morning! It's one week to our first online #IndieSky working group meetup. We're excited to announce that #FreeOurFeeds is supporting these efforts to define independent infrastructure stacks in #ATProto.
If you're interested joining us next week: lu.ma/xpg8kqbk
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Big news this morning: @freeourfeeds.com is donating $50K to the #ATCommunityFund to support work on #IndieSky - supporting the working group, R&D, and code.
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An institution can run a PDS (many accounts) which gives them data sovereignty (data hosted in their jurisdiction) and independent PDS connect to many relays. This can be used for Bluesky but also for any other apps like @smokesignal.events We’ll see how things evolve as we discuss #IndieSky
Thanks @knowtheory.net for running the day with me at #IndieSky last week.
Appreciate #ahoy25 team hosting us and everyone contributing on working through what an infrastructure stack can look like.
Thread with wrap up links here:
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