Mike Dilger on Nostr: Has anybody setup their own at-protocol PDS and indexing infrastructure and tried to ...
Has anybody setup their own at-protocol PDS and indexing infrastructure and tried to interact with Bluesky without using their resources? Such a thing is *critical* to their decentralization story. The had better have been doing this since day one, and making sure that their changes never break these self-hosted users, otherwise "decentralization" is just an idle academic claim with no proof (how many people are doing it? zero? Not very decentralized I'd say).
The Bluesky team has an academic paper describing the protocol that’s a pretty good high level but somewhat technical overview. It includes how they see Bluesky compares to Secure Scuttlebutt, Nostr, Farcaster, and ActivityPub/Mastodon.
I think folks who are building Nostr apps or advocating for it in comparison to Bluesky would do well to read it to understand what they’re doing and how we’re different.
We should also write up one for Nostr.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.03239
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