🦋 Bluesky Social

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Bluesky is a federated social network built on ATProtocol.

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Follow lemm.ee's site-wide rules.
All posts must, in some way, relate to Bluesky or ATProto.
Do not make duplicate posts.
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!peoplebluesky@lemmy.world - for screenshots of Bluesky posts

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Introducing Northsky - a non-profit Bluesky alternative (northskysocial.com)

submitted 6 days ago by airportline@lemm.ee to c/bluesky@lemm.ee

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Phase one is to create a PDS that securely hosts data in Canada, away from political persecution of 2SLGBTQIA+.

Phase two and beyond will include our own AppView and improved moderation tools.

These networks will exist side by side with bluesky and allow interaction per usual. Source

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[–] airportline@lemm.ee 14 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Reminder: there is no such thing as a "Bluesky instance." The way ATProto works is nothing like the way ActivityPub works.

[–] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Then where are the accounts that are not on sky.social?

[–] airportline@lemm.ee 2 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

The .bsky.social you often see at the end of Bluesky usernames is not like the @mastodon.social you often see at the end of Mastodon usernames.

On Bluesky, usernames have to be a domain. If you own your own domain, you can set your username to that domain, but if you don't, you'll usually be assigned one that ends in .bsky.social. In the following example, the New York Times sets their username to @nytimes.com, because they own nytimes.com.

Their data is still hosted on one of Bluesky's PDSs, however.

A PDS is just a server that personal data, a Personal Data Server. Currently, the process of moving ones data off of Bluesky's PDS and onto another is cumbersome, and the only users who have done so are technically inclined and self-hosting their own PDS. There are only about a thousand of them (according to the graph below), but hopefully there will be more once the process is streamlined.

[–] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Since my business owns a domain I could change my bsky.social or my business domain? Would that affect people following me?

[–] airportline@lemm.ee 2 points 18 hours ago

If your business owns a domain, you can set your handle to that domain. This blog post explains how to do so.

If you change your handle, users who follow you will still follow you. If you migrate to a different PDS, your followers will still follow you.