Weelll, depends on what you mean with “joining your own server.” The model is definitely different from ActivityPub’s, but lots of people on the network already have their own PDSs or “personal data servers”. They do still go through Bluesky’s relay, but nothing is really stopping people from running relays as such, it’s just fairly costly (as in some hundreds of dollars per month) currently as they need to hold the full state and history of the network (but apparently that’s being worked on.)
But it’s definitely a federated protocol even though it’s different from AP
So just because someone else isn’t running a relay now while they figure out how to make them less costly to run, it’s pointless for the protocol to be partially federated already and support further federation?
its centrally controlled that makes it pointless. if BitTorrent was centrally controlled that would also make it pointless. it does not matter what the protocol can do if a central point can control who can use it.
Weelll, depends on what you mean with “joining your own server.” The model is definitely different from ActivityPub’s, but lots of people on the network already have their own PDSs or “personal data servers”. They do still go through Bluesky’s relay, but nothing is really stopping people from running relays as such, it’s just fairly costly (as in some hundreds of dollars per month) currently as they need to hold the full state and history of the network (but apparently that’s being worked on.)
But it’s definitely a federated protocol even though it’s different from AP
but you kind of said yourself that in practice its not really.
Right, but that doesn’t mean the protocol isn’t federated
yes but it makes federation pointless.
So just because someone else isn’t running a relay now while they figure out how to make them less costly to run, it’s pointless for the protocol to be partially federated already and support further federation?
its centrally controlled that makes it pointless. if BitTorrent was centrally controlled that would also make it pointless. it does not matter what the protocol can do if a central point can control who can use it.