On discourse and decentralisation

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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.

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https://github.com/mary-ext/atproto-scraping/
Piefed has fewer instances, really.

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It's a bit surprising as it seems you already provided that link recently: https://feddit.org/post/18498447/8800070

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All of these links just lead to blank pages.

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Checking this one: blacksky.app

It returns this:

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This is an AT Protocol Personal Data Server (aka, an atproto PDS) operated by Blacksky Algorithms

Most API routes are under /xrpc/

      Code: https://github.com/blacksky-algorithms
   Support: https://opencollective.com/blacksky
  Protocol: https://atproto.com/

which isn't blank, and describes what it is.

That specific repo indexes PDSes only.
If you're looking for something closer to a full instance (like on activitypub) wafrn may interest you, it's a bit more niche though.

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which isn't blank, and describes what it is.

But nothing about what to do with it. What is a prospective user supposed to do with this?

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Go to their preferred appview (like bsky.app, blacksky.community or zeppelin.social) and make an account there.

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