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jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:
And this is still when there is still money left and things are nice and chummy. This one was just an accident, but surely bluesky pbc can't afford to just run an expensive infrastructural service that lets people piggyback competing products off it for free, forever. What do you do when you need to keep the lights on at your company, and you run the free service that your direct competitors rely on? It seems like network partition becomes somewhat inevitable.
the good part of atproto is that this is not unfixable for individual users. You should be able to cart your repo over to another PDS and use a different appview - assuming that the other parts also behave nicely, bsky pbc allows exports, the name resolution service lets you switch, etc. But that is also in question at the same time the relay would be, at profit time.
There are lots of good parts of atproto and good people working on it, the biggest risk is bluesky pbc itself. From what ive seen ppl seem to be reasonably canny about this, one of the reasons I think Blacksky is one of the most important groups in open social networks