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0 pointsjakebsky2y ago0 comments

There are a number of independent projects using atproto in various ways.

There's an (incomplete) list here: https://docs.bsky.app/showcase

And the protocol is documented here: https://atproto.com

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Thank you, I might be searching for the wrong things, but I don't see any independent servers. There's clients, libraries, bots, but no servers, am I missing something?

My question was motivated by the fact that from the outside the AT proto ecosystem looks pretty monocultural, and personally I don't trust that. :)

steveklabnik2y ago

Federation was just opened up with this announcement. I don't think there was a lot of energy for working on independent PDSes until after this has happened. In the past day, a bunch of copies of this reference PDS have been deployed. We'll see how things change in the future.

Basically, you're right, but just because you're asking early on. This is about to change real quick.

mariusor2y ago

Sorry to be dismissive but if people need a reference PDS to implement a protocol, I kinda lose faith in its expressiveness.

I'm contrasting this through the prism of having seen people implementing ActivityPub software as early as 2017, when it was merely a draft and everyone was complaining about how many things had been left out.

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mdaniel2y ago

I've also had pretty good luck using the GH topics for finding obscure projects https://github.com/topics/atprotocol https://github.com/topics/bluesky https://gitlab.com/explore/projects/topics?search=atprotocol (empty, but I usually check there, too)

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mariusor2y ago

Thank you, I might be searching for the wrong things, but I don't see any independent servers. There's clients, libraries, bots, but no servers, am I missing something?

My question was motivated by the fact that from the outside the AT proto ecosystem looks pretty monocultural, and personally I don't trust that. :)

steveklabnik2y ago

Basically, you're right, but just because you're asking early on. This is about to change real quick.

mariusor2y ago

Sorry to be dismissive but if people need a reference PDS to implement a protocol, I kinda lose faith in its expressiveness.

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mdaniel2y ago

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