Blog post by Christine Lemmer-Webber, co-editor of ActivityPub: https://dustycloud.org/blog/how-decentralized-is-bluesky/
The likely answer to this is that there will always have to be a large corporation at the heart of Bluesky/ATProto, and the network will have to rely on that corporation to do the work of abuse mitigation, particularly in terms of illegal content and spam. This may be a good enough solution for Bluesky’s purposes, but on the economics alone it’s going to be a centralized system that relies on trusting centralized authorities.
I mean Ive been working on figuring out how to use this: https://github.com/itaru2622/bluesky-selfhost-env
Ive gotten pretty close, just a few small issues now I'm trying to figure out. I mean as long as its FOSS and self host able idgaf if its corporate. The CIA made SELinux and its one of the tools I use daily. FUTO makes GrayJay and its another tool that I use daily.
I hate corpos, don't get me wrong, but if theyre actually giving you Something for free (free as in freedom, not as in free beer) I dont see the problem.
Yes, you can self-host it, but the problem is the cost. The blog explains it very clearly.
The CIA didn't make SELinux. Not sure where you got that from.
It was the NSA lol
They confused 3 letter evil agencies -- not surprising
The CIA invented crack cocaine, and that's another tool that I use daily.
Let us know how it goes, really curious to see how much an enthusiast can self-host!
Coming back to give you that update, I got so close but I'm stuck with trying to figure out the feed generator and I think I might be about to give up and just host the PDS. I'm sure its possible but my knowledge isnt great enough to finish this I dont think.