Bluesky opening up federation manton.org
@manton This is precisely the news I'd hoped to hear from Micro.blog once I read the announcement from Bluesky. Thanks.
@manton love to see it! I was thinking about how MB would handle the announcement. This is just what I was hoping for!
@manton I haven't read much, but is it true to say that their federation model handles search better than Mastodon? As in: if I post in my remote PDS, with only a few followers, etc, someone in a main hub searching for a string of text will find my post? This is probably my main issue with Mastodon.
@pcora That's true. Search is up to the "big" servers (currently only Bluesky, but there could be others) and works the same regardless of where your data is stored. One way to think about it is that Mastodon is about smaller communities, and Bluesky is about a larger community but with data stored on smaller servers.
@manton thanks! So I understood right. I’ll try to setup a PDS tomorrow just to play with it and understand more.
Oh wow, it's gonna be an interesting weekend for sure! @pcora me too-- Might see what I can do with my Tailnet/NAS or VPS.
@manton Definitely cool that you plan to make individual micro.blogs work as Bluesky PDSes! That's exactly how the federated social web should be able to work :)
@manton Micro.blog accounts having their own PDS would be awesome! I can imagine, 5 microblogs belonging to a single PDS. Can’t wait.