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[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

I don’t consider the PDS stuff to be fully federated. That’s just keeping your data on a different server, as far as I understand it. To be federated it needs to be a full interoperable server like mastodon, or lemmy.

You should also be able to host a non federated instance, or one with limited federation.

If they have moved past that, and I can open a server and have people sign up for accounts, then I stand corrected.

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[–] Natanael@infosec.pub 1 point 1 year ago*

Bluesky federates across different layers, it's modular, it doesn't have a comparable same-layer federation. It is fully interoperable, just not by the method you're used to.

You can host your own partial appview now (caching and indexing your and your friends' comment), and multiple people have managed to run their own relays for cheap (caching most of the posts in the network), and you can pull the rest of data you need to browse from the other relays and use the service as usual. You can run your own moderation labeler, use your own app, just your own account, etc...

Just look at the interoperable blacksky project by a bunch of black devs making their own infrastructure for accounts and moderation, etc.

To be non federated, all you have to do is not announce your server and not accept arbitrary connections

Due to content addressing, limited federation isn't really a thing by the usual definition. You can filter content from any PDS you don't like, but can't really control who can see already public posts

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