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pretty damn close to a 100% top-to-bottom bluesky-free bluesky ✅ indie pds (lots) ✅ indie relay (mine + others now!) ✅ indie jetstream (mine + many more (optional)) 🌀 indie appview (AppViewLite has some issues, @futur.blue's should work, more in progress) ✅ indie client (@aviva.gay's deer.social !)

I've always been telling people on Mastodon about it like "it should all be possible to run, just nobody has done it yet"

yeah. like all the people who can do it are doing more interesting things. but that audience is impossible to convince of anything.

its also frustrating because having something be possible but barely anyone doing it is in itself a very interesting problem to analyse

The very big obstacle is moderation at scale (one that the Fediverse never really solved either).

Turns out this might be next to impossible if every Mastodon island instance is governed by different rules and many islanders distrust or even despise inhabitants of other islanders. A relay like in atproto, which builds a firehose of all activity in all Mastodon islands is unworkable, unthinkable

Is there any general purpose PDSes that anyone could sign up on? Besides at.app.wafrn.net

I believe my PDS is! @altq.net

the `open` column under third parties from mary’s scraping should have most that are technically configured for signup, thought that should probably only be used as a starting place (your pds has ~control of your account)

>imo the low barrier to pds self-hosting is *the* underrated atproto quality agree so much when i first read about SOLID's concept of pods back in 2021 i knew that had to be the future finding atproto and discovering that a pds was the same thing was incredibly exciting