Explored Bluesky a bit today. This thread by their Dan about the protocol was useful: https://bsky.app/profile/danabra.mov/post/3l7yvxbuhx42f

bsky feels ideologically stronger than FC because their main client is open source

That said, apps having to aggregate data is bad devx & the relay is a single point of failure

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crypto fell on the wrong side of the ideological purity test

I don’t think it really matters what the result has been 

The point was: it’s ideologically more compelling. Especially for a demographic that likes open source software and dislikes crypto. Open sourcing the client is part virtue signaling

Has their client being open source actually lead to more decentralization? What is name of the second most used AT protocol client?

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No, I don’t know much about Bluesky 

I’m pretty crypto pilled, so their GTM doesn’t make sense to me

Have you seen any data on active users or retention (d30)?

Would love to see it bc i’ve been interested since bsky has roughly 10x the number or users/accounts compared to FC

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I don’t know enough about the aggregation and relay process, but if you run your own relay, you’d have to aggregate all the siloed data yourself, right?

according to their docs the relay is just an optimization for ux. 

i'm more bluesky curious after reading. i used to think a blockchain was necessary for the identity layer but less sure now.

it’s too bad their user base is… uh… obnoxious

I really like how you can choose your timeline algorithm, the little marketplace is swell.