@ahaldorsen But beyond that, I don't know how much you know about how the PDS works, but given that it contains all your data, including posting history, you can actually fully migrate your account and plug into any of the other layers of the ATProto stack. You can argue most people don't do that and that's why the Atmosphere is decentralized, but that's less of a fault of the platform/protocol and more just about the userbase not really caring.
In the fediverse, your posting history is stuck on the server you sign up on, so while a larger portion of people may migrate their account, many, including myself, would be deterred by having to give up on our old posts.
"Will you still get all replies on your posts and other necessary interactions?"
Sorry, I have not tried setting this up myself, nor do I have a ton of technical knowledge in this area.
As for the topic of centralization, I think both networks just approach it differently.
If you look at https://atp.fyi/network, there is already a ton of community infrastructure, and Blacksky has been doing a lot of work around this as well, even hosting other communities now.
Google may advertise its new selfie video sign-in feature as a shiny new option to log into your account, but this is just an excuse to collect more of your data 😡
Just when you think the Big Tech can't get more privacy-invading, it does! 🫣
Time to #DEGOOGLE here 👉 https://tuta.com/blog/degoogle-list.
1. Brave has Brave Origin.
2. In Vivaldi it would nice if the functionality and profile were (optionally) bound. I.e. simple profile would actually reduce the amount of stuff. This like engineered version, if Origin is a demo.
The latter could be e.g., "paid version". Since it is a complex feature there could be like modest annual sum of money. I don't trust companies with lifetime subscriptions or one-time payments because it does not make sense to me.
Like 10-20 annually (Origin's one time fee was like 50'ish). I would pay that any day.
Actual computer in situ, including my oof-stone (from @8none1). copper hanging lamp (made by my dad) and Batman (because who wants to debug with a rubber duck when you can have The World’s Greatest Detective on the case?)
@ahaldorsen Honestly, I'm not super interested in ATProto/Atmosphere, beyond having a general sense of where things are, until Bluesky the company folds in maybe about 2-3 years. Then we'll see if the protocol/platform has legs.
@ahaldorsen I wouldn't say I'm exactly "active" in the ATProto community, but I do try to keep up with what's happening over there in general.
As for DIDs, the PLC directory is being transferred to an independent organization.
https://atproto.com/blog/plc-directory-org
I don't know a ton about hosting the different layers of the ATProto stack, just that it can all be done pretty cheaply if you accept the same trade-offs as with Mastodon/fediverse software:
I'm a bit surprised by how many times I've gone back to the post I did in 2014 when I got a new computer, to find out what hardware I put in it. So I did another one for my recent new machine, so I can spend the next dozen years referring back to that too. https://www.kryogenix.org/days/2026/07/24/i-was-bought-a-new-computer/
@schmic @mnalis If you have a lot of time, all of our discussions on the topic are even web-public in our Zulip 😅
But to potentially spare you this and give a summary: Part of the reason for why it took us so long with moving forward on making a decision on this was that we worked *really hard* on finding an EU-based home as another option to consider.
But ultimately without much success and felt it was time to not let the perfect be the enemy of the good!
