alt Hacker NewsIf atproto app goes down and it’s open source, anyone can put it back up with all public data intact.
Even if it’s not open source, anyone who wants to write the code can still get it back up with all public data intact.
I think it’s a substantial difference with “takes the whole thing down”. Can we acknowledge that?
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pocksuppet • yesterday at 7:45 PM
Can they? 99.8% of the Blue Sky app data is hosted on the Blue Sky company servers.
if mastodon.social goes down, people would rightfully say that mastodon.social went down even though it's open source and anyone could run their own.
>"But where are all the Bluesky instances?"
I agree that it doesn't mean "atproto went down", and I don't mean to imply that. but "bluesky went down" is completely accurate, and bluesky is the one claiming to be decentralized due to using atproto. there are no other instances in bluesky's network, only partial ones (blacksky, last I heard they were still working on a major piece?), hence the "no it's not" responses. and that's also how they're directly encouraging people conflating the two.