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

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.

musician & dev gigameshmusic.com github.com/gigamesh

yeah true - not sure if that's a heavier lift than running a farcaster node but sounds like it is

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?

IMO the best part of blockchain identities is programmable security (social recovery, etc). "Just relegate to DNS for anyone who cares" is not as effective or equitable.

Plus the censorship/availability properties are nice too.