the .bsky.social is the main instance. The bridge acts as another instance.

For example one of my friends has a ATProtocol account hosted on the fellas.social instance, so his username is @johndoe.fellas.social

it basically works like lemmy and mastodon in that regard

The main difference with lemmy/fediverse is that instances don’t actually host the software, they just host the database. So it’s plug and play into any open source ATProtocol software. This dramatically decreases server loads and makes hosting an instance or your data cheaper but also means that software is more intensive to host.

its opt in and the bridge is only a single instance so you can defederate from the instance

I guess my private server and open source appview conntected to the ATprotocol are a conspiracy theory then?

Yes the vast majority of people are on the main instance, but the protocol and software are decentralised. And bluesky the PBC is actually providing grants for people to set up alternative servers to speed up the decentralisation process.

Bluesky is far from perfect but I’ve been quite disappointed by the “Fedi Good bluesky bad” oversimplifying and villification that has been going on here recently.

There are tens of thousands of accounts opted into the bridge.

Thanks that’s helpful. I’ll wait it out I guess as I’m not upto tinkering with the API right now.

Yeah, I know that’s not possible as of now. Just wondering if there is a simpler way to get a copy of my comments and posts than using a web scraper.

Wondering about Lemmy specifically. I know there’s an export option for settings though.

I think you’re onto something with that :)

All I know is that instance defederation on lemmy has a similar error. Sometimes communities are still visible as “artifacts” (not often though).

For example blahaj defederated from lemmygrad one year ago, but I can still view !ukraine_war_news@lemmygrad.ml (but posts from after the defederation don’t show up)

And for example I can still see posts and comments from @yogthos@lemmygrad.ml before defederation.

What I mean is I can’t see any of their posts they’ve made in a shitjustworks instance since their ban from my instance, even though my instance is federated with shitjustworks

Really interesting that MAU number has been declining for past 3 months, but number of posts and comments has been balooning.

But why would a user for example: @CDRMITTENS@sh.itjust.works who is instance banned from my home instance, have their last posts available to be seen by me from 7 months ago (right before their ban), but if I look at their profile from my LW alt, I can see they have a bunch of newer posts.

It’s almost like their new posts are “defederated” from my home instance.

The posts they make are in a federated community with my home instance. I’d bet if they replied to this comment, I wouldn’t see their reply. (assuming this comment is even visible to them).

My experience is a little better with comments sorted by “top” instead of “active”. “active” seems to promote controversial comments because they get the most replies.

Yep, though the alternatives are not quite there yet software wise, but MBin and Piefed aren’t that far behind…

To be honest except on things like sports and politics, reddit kind of feels like a ghosttown too. So many posts with huge amounts of upvotes and like 2 bot generated comments. The power commenter types seem to have left after the exodus and been replaced by lots of people who scroll and like but don’t really venture much into comments.

Main reason is people are too lazy to change their ways and don’t want to feel like they’ve been making the wrong choice all along.

Alledgedly?

Marxist Leninst is a nice way to put it, they support Putin, Xi. Zhedong and Stalin.

Thankfully as you say, it’s FOSS with free federation and defederation. Admins only have control over lemmy.ml.

Bluesky uses ATprotocol not ActivityPub, therefore it’s not considered part of the fediverse.

I wanna check out the fediverse blogging platforms, they seem interesting. Which one would you recommend? I looked at writefreely but it seems that none of the instances let you post as many blogs as you want unless you pay?

Also, is anyone working a fediverse IMDB/letterboxed alternative that uses OMDB dataset? Perhaps a Bookwyrm fork could make it not too hard to start.

I’m on blahaj so I don’t have them enabled but yeah before I switched to blahaj I did