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Re:Building Bluesky: A Distributed Social Network by jayveeone on Wednesday April 24, 2024 @05:43PM (#40150082)
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.

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Re:Building Bluesky: A Distributed Social Network by jakebsky on Wednesday April 24, 2024 @07:40PM (#40151336)
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.

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Re:Building Bluesky: A Distributed Social Network by jayveeone on Sunday April 28, 2024 @01:32PM (#40190229)
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.

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