Hey #GameDev and #ATProto! I'm working on tools to decentralize the ownership and management of video games by putting them (or at least their data... for now) on ATProto! I'm looking for feedback, so if you have any interest I'd love to hear your thoughts. ♥️ 🎮 ♥️
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Bluesky itself was centralized when they launched, but they've successfully decentralized the protocol. At this point it's in a very good place: self-hosted PDS, alt AppViews (like deer.social and blacksky.community), and even distributed relays. It's a really great architecture, honestly.
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Deer.social doesn't have an AppView, I'm not sure if Blacksky's has launched publicly
witchsky.app/profile/did:... looks like soft-launched
Any blacksky.app users who get banned from bsky should try logging into the staging.blacksky.community website. Looking to get feedback + identify any lingering bugs. Email support@blacksky.app with those. Missing data from non-Blacksky hosted accounts + older posts is expected
Nah, AppView is what I've seen them also call "app server" lately - mackuba.eu/2025/08/20/i.... Things like deer.social (and bsky.app) are just JS frontend webapps that connect to your PDS and/or some kind of AppView (right now all to api.bsky.app).
Yeah, based on the definition from atproto.com I've always understood it as the system rendering rendering the PDS data is the AppView. It's such a strange term for essentially an aggregate API. 😅