Building Bluesky: A Distributed Social Network

When I built Nearby, a social network, I also realized that there are significant cost savings moving from the cloud to on prem. The hardware is much more performant and is a faction of the cost. I don’t think this is common knowledge. The cloud has pretty much become the default option, but sometimes it really isn’t the best choice.

It's not a social network - it's a public square. Social networks must have P2P messaging.

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.

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.

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.