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.
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