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@guyjantic @bnewbold @cwebber I think they acknowledge that a few places in their article that AP might be able to have it, they just don't think it's built for it.

Personally, my gripe with Bluesky in general is that I'm in the crew that only think it's decentralized when there are no major pillars. In AP the only server outage that matters to my connectivity is my own... but Bluesky has big backbones that can't be casually run... and they wouldn't be bad if they weren't mandatory.

Like I'd be much more welcoming of Bluesky if the environment was set up in a way that you could still use it without that big relay in the middle... because I think that big relay is the problem, it's too much control.

Mentioning things like Google it's like if the web relied on Google search to run, Google goes down and 90% of your bookmarks stop working. (Which is more fucked up because that's what happens for a lot of people when Amazon goes down...)

Likewise i think doing a big search feature like that for AP would probably be more of a companion or subset protocol rather than working within AP proper (ie. you'd have the option to use it and to submit your profile/posts to it, but it wouldn't be required functionality for your server to be usable)