[HN Gopher] Blacksky AppView
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       Blacksky AppView
        
       Author : Kye
       Score  : 48 points
       Date   : 2026-03-08 21:40 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (github.com)
        
       | HotGarbage wrote:
       | The "decentralization" of Bluesky is a joke.
       | 
       | Despite its faults ActivityPub is superior.
        
         | afavour wrote:
         | If you wish to avoid downvotes you might benefit from stating
         | _why_ you think ActivityPub's decentralization is superior.
         | We're in a thread discussing an example of Bluesky
         | decentralization so it's clearly possible.
        
           | HotGarbage wrote:
           | The amount of resources required to federate with Bluesky
           | (i.e. ingest the entire firehose) is untenable.
        
             | AlienRobot wrote:
             | It was not designed so anyone could run their own social
             | media for $5. It simply has a fundamentally different
             | design that tries to solve different problems.
             | 
             | No need to call it a "joke." Both solutions can co-exist on
             | vastness of the Internet.
        
             | mpalmer wrote:
             | Bluesky's end user story is extremely solid. User-driven,
             | first class moderation tooling, _inside the protocol_. Why
             | do you think the difference in resources required between
             | the two is decisive?
             | 
             | Your opinion sounds too strongly held to be defended this
             | half-heartedly.
        
             | jauntywundrkind wrote:
             | Ingressing the firehose is by far the easiest part. Here's
             | some doing it on a $4/mo VPS. Lots of other examples, many
             | on _slightly_ more expensive systems. Phil here also runs a
             | link indexer for all Bluesky on a raspberry pi 4.
             | https://bsky.app/profile/bad-example.com/post/3mfkrfvy3ok2u
             | 
             | I ran into this really great thread from Henry Farrell on
             | people who overly polarized themselves, who shut down being
             | willing to hear anything else. https://bsky.app/profile/him
             | self.bsky.social/post/3mgagtkjg7...
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             | Imo a good time to remember the old chant: _" the only war
             | that matters is the war against imagination; all other wars
             | are subsumed by this war."_ A lot of totally closed people
             | around HN parts.
        
       | pjc50 wrote:
       | Some more background and a user report of the migration process:
       | https://gregpak.net/2025/11/13/how-and-why-i-moved-from-a-bl...
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       | Crucially, the purpose of Blacksky is to provide a service for
       | the (US) black community which has its own moderation decisions
       | while being substantially interoperable.
       | 
       | (Remember, the reasons people use one social network rather than
       | another are almost always social first and technical second,
       | where the social functions are enabled or hindered by the
       | technology)
        
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