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  • But what about the DIDs, the things used to actually identify accounts within the ATproto ecosystem:

    But Bluesky has developed its own DID method, did:plc. Today, did:plc stands for “Public Ledger of Credentials”, however it originally stood for “Placeholder DIDs”, with the hope of replacing them with something else later. The way that did:plc works is that Bluesky hosts a web service from which one can register, retrieve, and rotate keys (and other associated DID document information). However, this ledger is centrally controlled by Bluesky.

    It’s literally not possible to have a functional PDS without registering with a Bluesky server and they maintain indefinite control over the ledger. All your data is tied to this DID, it’s how the entire protocol is designed to identify stuff, how decentralised is your data if it’s dependent on Blusky (the company) assigning you an identity?








  • Seems they’re all running the same version, or Piefed doesn’t tag releases:

    piefed.social nodeinfo
    curl -s https://piefed.social/nodeinfo/2.0 | jq
    {
      "openRegistrations": true,
      "protocols": [
        "activitypub"
      ],
      "software": {
        "name": "PieFed",
        "version": "0.1"
      },
      "usage": {
        "localComments": 12382,
        "localPosts": 1169,
        "users": {
          "activeHalfyear": 561,
          "activeMonth": 309,
          "total": 800
        }
      },
      "version": "2.0"
    }
    
    feddit.online nodeinfo
    curl -s https://feddit.online/nodeinfo/2.0 | jq
    {
      "openRegistrations": true,
      "protocols": [
        "activitypub"
      ],
      "software": {
        "name": "PieFed",
        "version": "0.1"
      },
      "usage": {
        "localComments": 503,
        "localPosts": 214,
        "users": {
          "activeHalfyear": 85,
          "activeMonth": 34,
          "total": 85
        }
      },
      "version": "2.0"
    }