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Re:Bluesky's at Protocol: Pros and Cons for Developers by steveklabnik on Thursday November 07, 2024 @04:24PM (#42081210)
The best known ones right now are:

* Hacker News clone: https://frontpage.fyi/

* Events app: https://smokesignal.events/

* Blog platform: https://whtwnd.com/

There's toooons of alternative clients, but that's not the same thing as "independent application."

Re:Bluesky's at Protocol: Pros and Cons for Developers by chabalatabala on Saturday November 16, 2024 @02:41PM (#42158663)
All these are hardcoded to serve centralized content from bluesky's backend indexer right? if bluesky the company goes down, there's nothing to see right?

If so, I think AT protocol needs to figure out how to make community hosted infrastructure easy, affordable, *and popular* before doing anything else, because it seems like it's just growing to serve Bluesky's app, and that's a flawed perspective of development for something like a general use decentralized social protocol.

I just feel like if bitcoin people weren't the norm on nostr, there wouldnt' be much of a case for bluesky. nostr pretty much opens up possibilities and is living currently in a proven and actively scaling decentralized ecosystem.

Re:Bluesky's at Protocol: Pros and Cons for Developers by chabalatabala on Sunday November 17, 2024 @04:46PM (#42167603)
Update: It seems yes there is no real decentralization in infrastructure. However it's great to see the eye is still on target: https://bnewbold.net/2024/atproto_progress/ . Sending good luck vibes to AT Protocol team for these goals to be reached.