On Discourse and Decentralisation
The Community Group for #ActivityPub is drafting an open letter calling for respect and collaboration between the people working on the different protocols in the open social web.
I’m signing the letter, and with it, I have some thoughts regarding discourse, decentralisation and why I think this space matters.
PieFed is much newer, has many many MANY fewer users, and seems to already have many more instances.
https://github.com/mary-ext/atproto-scraping/
Piefed has fewer instances, really.
It’s a bit surprising as it seems you already provided that link recently: https://feddit.org/post/18498447/8800070
All of these links just lead to blank pages.
Checking this one: blacksky.app
It returns this:
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which isn’t blank, and describes what it is.
That specific repo indexes PDSes only.
If you’re looking for something closer to a full instance (like on activitypub) wafrn may interest you, it’s a bit more niche though.
But nothing about what to do with it. What is a prospective user supposed to do with this?
Go to their preferred appview (like bsky.app, blacksky.community or zeppelin.social) and make an account there.
https://feddit.org/post/18642154/8860187
Piefed also has different features than Lemmy, which incites people to start instances.
About the number of ATProto PDS and relays, didn’t you already got a much larger list in this comment? https://feddit.org/post/18498447/8800070
https://github.com/mary-ext/atproto-scraping
If you actually click those links there’s nothing there.
Here how I used it:
Fill the form, get you account validated
Then use it to login on deer.social
Here is my account for instance: https://deer.social/profile/did:plc:yhwzvt4bab4o743dhg5rfctw
That’s helpful, thank you. This is something I have deliberately looked for and been unable to find, which is disappointing. I’m happy to admit I was wrong.
No worries, happy to help!