Could my perception of moderation be skewed? Maybe. Maybe yours is. But let's say I'm wrong. How does that change the fact that instance = community isn't a good abstraction? Very few people are only ever part of one community; standards of behavior differ depending on which community you engage in, and may even conflict. And yet, I have to choose one that gets to dictate my whole being on the network. Transfer this to real life and imagine you'd have to be your worksona 24/7 forever (because work is also a "community"). I can't be the only one who feels this is weird, right?
I don't know why I keep writing posts about platforms because in the end it's just annoying. Annoying because I could've expressed myself better, and annoying because people like to get hung up on that one weak part and discard the whole post as a result
@Korawolfsrain Yeah, it looked nice, but I couldn't help but feel it was out of place. Now it won't draw that much attention so the brown feathers get to shine more.
@kirby I really do wonder how they're planning to get any money out of this. It's not like they're sabotaging the decentralization efforts. I heard they handed the central identity server over to some other company (take with a grain of salt because I only saw that in passing), and they also significantly lowered the cost of running a relay by dropping the "keep the entire message history for all of time" requirement. Blacksky is replicating the entire stack, too. So that's quite an improvement since the last time I looked into ATProto (which was when they allowed self-hosting the PDS).
@kopper@gabboman@makiki Do you know of a resource that gives you an easy-to-understand and accurate overview of ATProto? Because in all the diagrams I've seen, PDSes point to one relay instead of (what I gather from your explanation should be) PDSes and relays having a many-to-many relationship.
Volpeon