you can just run another one, currently nobody does but if the main relay gets bought out, the community can band together to run one, it’s a couple hundred bucks a month, expensive, but not unsustainable.

they didn’t do it that way for no reason though, and they did do some stuff to alleviate the problems it causes.

• it allows for better discoverability, no missing comments in threads, good global search, ect. Basically solves most all of the papercuts the fediverse has.
• there isn’t a “server” you host, per se. There are 3 components, the appview (ui, self-explanatory) and decides how your algorithm is, the relay (hard to run, does the federation and outputs everything it sees as a “firehose”) and the pds (personal data server), which hosts account data and is the “home” for your account. I host my own pds, and you can migrate your account between pds’s. The only hard part to run is the relay.

also everything bluesky is open source

yeah, and mine about ripping dvd’s on a server, if that broke the rules wouldnt this do that more?

You could install android on something, and run one of the open source TV launchers

Yup! And you can just do eject in the terminal to open the disk tray

Are you still hosting it? Have they realised?

that’s insane, i pay like 5¢ a KWh

Thank you for immich! I use it every day.

And thank you for posting on lemmy

right, thank you.

that is an outdated version of phtn though

solarpunk seems to just use the default lemmy ui with some custom css

Lemdroid uses an ancient version of photon, it’d make more sense to try it on phtn.app, also, the dev is doing a full rewrite to make it faster

well, i could just link you to docker’s documentation, but that’s not super helpful. The tldr is that docker is a way of distributing/running software you run on servers.

What do you want to do? Do you just want to learn, or do you want to set something up?

all you have to do is

1. host your own PDS, where your account lives, this is easy, I do it myself already.

2. host you own appview: the only actually good appview is bsky’s, luckily it’s open source, unfortunately I do not believe they made it easy to self-host.

3. Host a relay, this isn’t all that hard, it just needs a real big server (AFAIK it needs a shitton of io throughput), so unless you’re very rich it’s not too realistic to host this.

So yeah, a PDS is easy to host but the other two parts are a pain, and since the protocol has only been open for a few months, people haven’t really done too much.

Frontpage exists, but they haven’t made it be able to interact with bsky.Social, although the accounts are shared. I have been told by people involved with that that that’s an issue with frontpage’s implementation, and not the AT protocol

do you have a good guide on how it works/ho to set it up? I tried a little while ago but couldnt figure it out.

Good to know i was right, i will now carry this newfound confidence into every subject

Thanks, that’s what i figured.

I got confused by so many game servers using seperate domains for the site and server, i assumed there was a good reason for that

I really like their permissions system

Basically bluesky works with pds’s, that host account data, (i actually host my own), appviews, which manage the post sorting/algorithm and ui, and relays, that sit between the two and make it easier (theyre not strictly necessary, but make At-proto services much faster and more reliable).

Relays are expensive, and so bluesky’s relay is the only real one currently, not because theyre shutting other people out, because a relay is expensive. So currently you kind of have to use bluesky’s servers to use the AT protocol, but thatll change whenever someone has the resources to setup a good relay.

the federation is open since febuary 22nd

That’s up to clients to implement, not part of the protocol.

But yeah its kinda dumb its not a thing in element