@ruud @convene_depth It's one of my servers. The active users there are a lot of news bot accounts, besides some users. AFAIK the server runs quiet stable, but I had to tweak the database a lot to make it work.
Also there are some tweaks in the setting (like reducing the number of delivery retrials) to make the system work faster.
@Jerry In the RC/Develop there is the fix that changes one of the ugly queries. Also it contains a coding to prevent executing long queries when another long query is running.
@along_the_road @QuantumEyetanglement Bluesky is partially decentralized. You can setup your own PDS (the server where your data is stored). There are two central parts: The directory of all DID (comparable with a DNS) and the message relay.
They have got a repository with their code that is uses MIT as license.
@hedge @moon Bluesky has got only one central component, the directory. The web interface at bsky.app is only one of multiple web interfaces. The data itself is hosted in several distributed personal data servers and you can setup and host your own as well.
This "Bluesky is offline" message is similar to some "Mastodon is offline", when only mastodon.social is offline and all other servers are running.
@hedge BTW: There is an update to the terms of service as well that implies that you cannot opt out of providing training data to their AI.
@geneva_convenience It's exactly the same that also happened several years ago between the US and the EU concerning civil planes. Here Boeing and Airbus compete against each other - and the US had the assumption, that the EU subsidized Airbus so that Boeing couldn't compete. Because of that the US thought about tariffs that would have countered this.
@yogthos @gomp It's the capitalist textbook example, to conquer a market by undercutting prices and to crush competition in that market that cannot compete - and to later increase prices when there is no more competition. You can see this all over the world, not only with China and EVs, but also for example with Uber and the taxi business or Europe with their food exports to poorer countries outside the EU.
@Dirk How should they achieve it? The Fediverse contains of a lot of different systems that offer so much more than Threads could ever do.
@ruud We can try. I will be on the HOA until Saturday. Because of that I'm not sure how available I will be in that time.