Building Bluesky: A Distributed Social Network

[tosh]

https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/bluesky

[brianhama]

When I built Nearby, a social network, I also realized that there are significant cost savings moving from the cloud to on prem. The hardware is much more performant and is a faction of the cost. I don’t think this is common knowledge. The cloud has pretty much become the default option, but sometimes it really isn’t the best choice.

[nikolay]

It's not a social network - it's a public square. Social networks must have P2P messaging.

[jayveeone]

When will we stop perpetuating the lie that BlueSky and AT Proto are open source?

It's not doing much to create the trust needed for this project.

[jakebsky → jayveeone]

Why would you think it's not open source?

The reference implementation: https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto

Complete React Native Android/iOS/Web app: https://github.com/bluesky-social/social-app

Go libraries: https://github.com/bluesky-social/indigo

PDS distribution: https://github.com/bluesky-social/pds

All dual MIT / Apache 2.0 licensed.

[jayveeone → jakebsky]

Because a single corporation owns and develops the protocol. It's single-vendor open source at best.

I honestly don't understand this PR strategy. So much of your success relies on trust.