I don’t actually want to do this right now, but I do want to know if it’s really decentralized yet. Completely looks like it means each of:

  • A client ✅
  • A personal data server ✅
  • A relay ❓
  • Labelers ✅
  • Feed generators ✅

It looks like the relay might be the bottleneck. If I’m understanding the protocol correctly, a relay could consume less than the whole network so it doesn’t have to be ridiculously expensive to operate, but I’m not finding examples of people doing it.

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    8 days ago

    ive been asking about this for a long time. ive yet to be presented with a non-bluesky controlled relay instance. this is a lynch-pin of the protocol and prevents true federation.

    happy to be proven wrong someday, but bluesky is just twitter with user-contolled nodes. they can decide to remove nodes at their whim.