Why Bluesky Has No "Instances": Explaining atproto's Architecture
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danabramov
Summary
The article explains why people asking "where are the Bluesky instances?" are making a category error. Unlike Mastodon's federated model with distinct instances/servers, atproto (the protocol powering Bluesky) uses a different architecture where accounts are portable across providers and there are no separate "instances" in the Mastodon sense. The author draws a comparison to RSS and Google Reader to illustrate the conceptual difference.
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Hacker NewsWhy Bluesky Has No "Instances": Explaining atproto's Architectureoverreacted.ioKey quotes
· 3 pulledEvery single time a post about atproto hits Hacker News, somebody asks in the comments: 'But where are all the Bluesky instances?'
The problem is, there are no instances in atproto! The question is a category error.
Instances are a Mastodon-brained concept, and I wanted something I can link to that explains this clearly.
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