joeruelle on Nostr: Basically if you host your instance you have all your history content-addressed, and ...
Basically if you host your instance you have all your history content-addressed, and none of your rotation keys are controlled by Bluesky. So you can in theory detach and then plug into any other relay or client(AppView in their lingo), including those run by Bluesky and those not. (Appviews can also pull directly from your instance without a relay.)
On the dev side, you can build any AppView, or full relay, or partial relay, and set your own policies, and invite self-hosting users with their own keys to join it, and Bluesky can do nothing about that.
However the one thing Bluesky still have control over in that relationship the DID:PLC directory (DNS pointing equivalent). So that's of note. Though supposedly that's going to be spun out into something ICANN like, who knows. Also on the self-deployed relay side things can get very expensive very fast.
I think ATProto is pretty well thought out for certain town-square-like use cases, where users need both a way to exit and a global view (i.e. some users simply must know exactly how many followers they have down to the individual follower, contradicting reports won't cut it.). But Nostr is much, much better for other use cases.
On the dev side, you can build any AppView, or full relay, or partial relay, and set your own policies, and invite self-hosting users with their own keys to join it, and Bluesky can do nothing about that.
However the one thing Bluesky still have control over in that relationship the DID:PLC directory (DNS pointing equivalent). So that's of note. Though supposedly that's going to be spun out into something ICANN like, who knows. Also on the self-deployed relay side things can get very expensive very fast.
I think ATProto is pretty well thought out for certain town-square-like use cases, where users need both a way to exit and a global view (i.e. some users simply must know exactly how many followers they have down to the individual follower, contradicting reports won't cut it.). But Nostr is much, much better for other use cases.