Bluesky Personal Data Server
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@timconsidine said in Bluesky:
IMHO that's basically just the standard terms all platform need to have in order to operate. Without it they couldn't share your posts with your followers.
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@sfeldkamp said in Blue Sky Social - AT Protocol (Authenticated Transfer Protocol) - alternative to Mastodon / ActivePub:
For what it's worth, the terms of service have been updated. Not that it matters. As with everything on the internet, it's buyer beware and use at your own risk. For my part I'm comfortable with the underlying protocol and the role Bluesky (a public-benefit company) is playing in developing it and the reference implementations for it.
They have released a PDS (docker image) that will federate with their sandbox network. Federation with the production network will come after a period of time.
https://github.com/bluesky-social/pds
Federation still depends on three services hosted by Bluesky. Eventually it should be possible to consume these ATProto services from other providers, but for now Bluesky is the only one offering them.
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I don't think Mastodon claims ownership in order to federate content.
Ownership is not required to share content, just permission to share.
But hey, I haven't read the ToS first hand, so will defer to more patient analysis.
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@timconsidine said in Bluesky:
Errr, is the same as Blue Sky from Jack Dorsey with horrible IP claim terms ?
If so, I don't think it should be packagedIf I host my own data then I believe many of the concerns are reduced or removed.
https://forum.cloudron.io/post/65713
Always good to check for existing AppWishlist posts defore duplicating
That post was a “hey look another platform” - mine is an actual request for an app with links to the developer docs to build it.
Not sure why the other post was left open when it had no detail on an actual app to be built.
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@shanelord01 said in Bluesky:
That post was a “hey look another platform” - mine is an actual request for an app with links to the developer docs to build it.
That post was in
AppWishlistand had github links.
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Federation is no longer just the sandbox; it's network-wide. PDSs are now self-host-able.
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It's almost funny to see all the rage against Bluesky by the purists, rage filled with disinformation and more beliefs and self-projection about Bluesky than actual facts by the way, but anyhow, this is one more vote for having bluesky on cloudron !
the deployment from what I understand is Docker first, even tho there is already ways to do without
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@ekevu123 I doubt it'll be possible to do it in a way that works alongside Cloudron any time soon to be honest. For starters self hosting a Relay needs at least 4.5TB space. But also there are lots of moving parts that rely on particular version of things (e.g. Ubuntu 24.04 isn't supported yet etc etc ete). See https://alice.bsky.sh/post/3laega7icmi2q for more info.
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4,5TB? Wow. I didn't know.
Never mind then
EDIT: However, I was referring to Bluesky Personal Data Server, which has reasonable requirements and can be run inside docker -
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Now, of course, we have AI to read Ts & Cs for gotchas.
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@shanelord01 Maybe the title of the app request could be updated to "Bluesky Personal Data Server" ? As this is the docker container that would be self-hosted through Cloudron.
I've watched this recent how-to video of someone installing Bluseky PDS on a raspberry pi and it seems that the docker installation and setup has become pretty straight forward.
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The provided Dockerfile does not seem complex, especially if the multi-stage build can be used (seems this is now a permissible approach for Cloudron).
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Seeing how many help requests on here because ppl don't understand what "fresh server" means, and how many are using under-powered 2GB RAM servers, as well as trying to explain what the PDS is, I can't really blame the CLoduron team for seeming to be disinterested in making this available.
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What about this approach : https://github.com/itaru2622/bluesky-selfhost-env
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I don't have a clear view yet on what a bluesky setup all includes, but at least that Personal Data Server, which can apparently federate, does not have outlandish requirements on the system https://github.com/bluesky-social/pds?tab=readme-ov-file#preparation-for-self-hosting-pds
However it does not appear to have stable releases yet.
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@jdaviescoates said in Bluesky Personal Data Server:
For starters self hosting a Relay needs at least 4.5TB space.
As per https://whtwnd.com/bnewbold.net/3lbvbtqrg5t2t this has already increased to 16TB!
So, yeah, hosting a Bluesky Relay not really a viable thing to individually self host.
But I guess the PDS more viable.
BTW this thread and the linked blog exchanges well worth a read
https://social.coop/@cwebber/113647109852249805
In short: Bluesky / ATproto is not (and will not be) really very decentralized. Still better than X though.
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@jdaviescoates said in Bluesky Personal Data Server:
Still better than X though
Anything is better than X, on principle!
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Most people would be more interested to run their own PDS than a Relay I think, it's probably going to be bit by bit, i'm not expecting Bluesky to be born in a desired state of perfection because nothing on the internet is ever born that way but I do hope that over time more and more parts of Bluesky will able to be run by users if they choose so
