I'm looking to expand my Bluesky feed with accounts that share interesting, tech-related content, similar to what we discuss here on HN.
Edit: saw a lot of valid responses, thanks! My question is answered and I might sign up on bsky as well if I get bored on Mastodon or want to connect with someone there :)
https://atproto.com/guides/self-hosting
When I tried to install mastodon it downloaded literally hundreds of random dependencies, there was no way I could verify the security of it. Real shitshow imho.
Haven't tried self-hosting Mastodon since I was looking for a social platform and not a new hobby. There's lots of hosters to choose from though, including the usual suspects like German Tchncs and French La Quadrature du Net (they also host other alternatives to big tech platforms like peertube)
I’m not sure as to the future of bluesky, but they are committed to having a distributed network, and have been before they even launched.
I think claims to the contrary are sour grapes.
I don’t put that much stock in such critiques when a project is still evolving, learning lessons, and most importantly growing.
Most of the complaints coming from the mastodon crowd feel more like emacs vs vim “debates” of yesteryear.
"all of" is accurate only in the sense that there's one major appview right now, but it wouldn't take down all of the independent PDS hosts. Anyone using an alternative appview wouldn't have been affected.
There is centralized moderation for the bluesky application, but not at the protocol level.
You just described any modern shitware that uses npm.