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Re:Bluesky Showed Everyone’s Ass by capableweb on Friday May 05, 2023 @03:42PM (#35834206)
> At this point they're just kicking the can down the road, postponing the problems that Mastodon already had to face.

Seems they're finally publishing more details about it: https://blueskyweb.xyz/blog/5-5-2023-federation-architecture

Re:Bluesky Showed Everyone’s Ass by lapcat on Friday May 05, 2023 @03:53PM (#35834340)
> The federation architecture allows anyone to host a BGS, though it’s a fairly resource-demanding service. In all likelihood, there may be a few large full-network providers, and then a long tail of partial-network providers.

The blog post seems kind of hand-wavy. One question is, how do they make the few large BGS censorship-resistant?

(I know I'm violating the HN guidelines, but I hate how they've hidden the scrollbar on that blog post.)