Interesting introduction of bluesky "decentralized" approach and feasibility of self hosting for individual users.

#federated #activitypub #bluesky #selfhosting

anderegg.ca/2024/11/15/maybe-b…

Maybe Bluesky has “won”

November has sucked so far. One upside of the terrible nonsense is that more people are fleeing X. Many are choosing Bluesky. I’ve seen a bunch of takes about this recently, but I keep seeing things I disagree with.

^{Gavin Anderegg}

“mastodon.social has over 2 million users … I think it's safe to say the the mastodon codebase is tuned for mastodon.social”

muffinlabs.com/posts/2024/10/2…

I keep getting asked why I’m working on the Small Web – which is tuned for instances of one (not two or two million).

This is why.

(It’s also why I was advising a certain someone to limit the size of his instance… until my advice was no longer compatible with their plans/welcome.)

#sizeMatters #federated #fediverse #vs #peerToPeer #SmallWeb