On Discourse and Decentralisation
The Community Group for #ActivityPub is drafting an open letter calling for respect and collaboration between the people working on the different protocols in the open social web.
I’m signing the letter, and with it, I have some thoughts regarding discourse, decentralisation and why I think this space matters.
I cant even see this text without agreeing to a ToS and I’m simply not doing that.
I’m not at all an expert on the subject, but I would ask: if it’s so easy and cheap, why aren’t more people hosting them? As far as I can tell there are only a handful in existence.
Piefed is cheap to host too, but only a few people host instances.
I just learned about Blacksky which is independent from Bluesky but uses ATProto
PieFed is much newer, has many many MANY fewer users, and seems to already have many more instances.
Piefed also has different features than Lemmy, which incites people to start instances.
About the number of ATProto PDS and relays, didn’t you already got a much larger list in this comment? https://feddit.org/post/18498447/8800070
https://github.com/mary-ext/atproto-scraping