It isn’t federation, since not all nodes in the system have equal power (control). There is still a central authority that controls what the inferior nodes can do.
Contrast that with email servers where you can send a message from one server to another without a more authoritative node as a required middleman.
Is there a list of all the relays and appview servers run by other people for the community to use? I looked for one, but could find no evidence that others have actually hosted instances of these components for real use.
I think the problem is there isn’t much incentive to run a relay in particular, as it all funnels into the same place, but if you’re questioning the tech this guy did it a few days ago with the relay
It isn’t federation, since not all nodes in the system have equal power (control). There is still a central authority that controls what the inferior nodes can do.
Contrast that with email servers where you can send a message from one server to another without a more authoritative node as a required middleman.
Claiming it’s a central authority when anyone can run a relay is a little disingenuous.
Is there a list of all the relays and appview servers run by other people for the community to use? I looked for one, but could find no evidence that others have actually hosted instances of these components for real use.
Not sure if an absolute list, but https://atprotocol.dev/ is a good resource.
I think the problem is there isn’t much incentive to run a relay in particular, as it all funnels into the same place, but if you’re questioning the tech this guy did it a few days ago with the relay
https://whtwnd.com/futur.blue/3lkubavdilf2m
It looks like ^ he also has an appview up thats long form blogging here: https://github.com/whtwnd/whitewind-blog
Another guy also built a lightweight app view
https://bsky.app/profile/why.bsky.team/post/3lkwg2djrfk23
And stream.place is another appview but it’s not a microblog platform. Also very early stages I believe.