Notices by ekana (ekana@mastodon.social)

@BeAware @volkris @juergen_hubert the relay is just an indexer. I'm not understanding your issue with it crawling the network. It's a utility to lower the cost of hosting a PDS.

@BeAware @volkris @juergen_hubert yes because all records get pulled into the relay no matter what. The client still pulls from the PDS directly.

@BeAware @volkris @juergen_hubert this photo is talking about atproto in general. Whitewind as I understand just pulls directly from the PDS. Also there's already numerous non-archival relays that are cheap to run. For example Jetstream.

@BeAware @volkris @juergen_hubert
Unfortunately that post is full of misinformation about atproto. For example whtwnd.com, a popular atproto blogging platform, doesn't even use the relay.

@BeAware @volkris @juergen_hubert Everything doesn't go through the relay, its up to app developers if they would like to do it via the big relay.

@atomicpoet @fediversenews what they do care about tho is algorithmic choice. It's hard to go back to a feed like Threads when you can have the highly custom feeds on Bluesky.

@atomicpoet @fediversenews could it also just be that Threads is an awful app (it is). Also, most Bluesky people don't even care about the protocol lol.

@atomicpoet They supposedly have, or are planning to, move it from staging to bsky.app.

I still think JACK wants it to be a temporary proof of concept, at odds with the Staff and the other board members.

@atomicpoet Okay let's say that the app is temporary, it wouldn't make sense to just stop developing the app when the protocol is finished. What I imagine he means is that if the protocol takes off with a bunch of other companies and apps popping up then they would then drop the app. But I still doubt Jay would really want that, the way. The Bluesky app is supposed to be a market example like Surface Laptops or when Google makes a premium Chromebook.

@atomicpoet @fediversenews Yeah, Jack just says things sometimes lol. He is pretty big on the board considering he's one third, but I doubt Jay would like to all of the sudden lose her company. And the other guy on the board seems way more aligned with Jay.

@atomicpoet @viktor Dorsey also apparently wanted to launch with zero moderation tools but Jay insisted they create at least something before further invites. So he is a strong voice on the board, but he's not final say and I swear I read somewhere that they were gonna add them

@viktor @atomicpoet A lot of people use Twitter DMs as a serious means of communication, especially influencers. But DM's are for sure gonna be added to the "app.bsky" lexicon so I'm wondering if that's gonna be a common layer or something. I imagine it will be e2e as well.

@atomicpoet @fediversenews AOC has been on for a bit, so I'm guessing they mean presidents and stuff?

@atomicpoet Your second question is answered in the blog post.

@atomicpoet Have they changed? Because the PDS was supposed to be able to federate with each other, at least that's how it is depicted in the Docs.

@atomicpoet @fediversenews I think this is a fundamental misunderstanding why checkmarked people disliked the Twitter Blue check.

@fediversereport Lowercase makes it seem less like a "brand" and more like a "normal" think like the *internet* or the *web*.