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this seems like a real issue w/ the design of atproto in its present form tbh. i really don't want all my accounts to be entangled with my social media such that if the mods don't appreciate my tone i effectively no longer exist on all the other apps in the ecosystem

this feels like part of the design (ideally, you """simply""" run your own pds!) but yeah it does create a fucked up serf caste, of which i at least remain a part from simple laziness

it isn't enough; they just !takedown you, you disappear from relay/appview. You have to run your own parallel infrastructure *and get people to use it instead of theirs* to make any traction on this.

relays are not expensive, there are a bunch of independent relays. @bad-example.com runs one, @zzstoatzz.io runs one appviews can be expensive but tangled has its own appview, obviously, because it's a different app

if bsky is your pds host and they take down your repo then of course it will not be available. likewise if you self-host and your vps provider takes down your server it will not be available in both cases you solve that by moving to another provider

in an adversarial situation (the pds host is actively trying to lock you out of your account) you need to have a higher rotation key registered with the plc to migrate. most users do not, which is a problem

there are multiple kinds of takedown; for some, yeah unless whatever the thing you're using queries the PDS directly without using any of bsky's infrastructure

huh. that...seems real suboptimal and like something i need to read into more seriously ;_;

most of the early promise of a decentralized protocol here was replaced with de facto concentration of power, and increasing abusive exploitation of the chokepoint once the aaron era began; they're now roughly up to Twitter-circa-2018 levels of awful like shadowbanning, and getting worse