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Federation Architecture Overview - Bluesky

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Many of our experiences with social media today are defined by the same constraining dynamics — one private company owns all of our data, populates our feeds with an algorithm of their choice, and we’re unable to take our followers and posts with us to a new home if we ever decide to leave. The AT Protocol, a federated networking model which Bluesky is built upon, changes this. Soon, we’re launching a sandbox environment to begin the testing phase of federation for the AT Protocol with allow-listed servers. In advance of this launch, we want to share some technical details about our design decisions with you. At a high level, federation means that anyone can run the parts that make up the AT Protocol themselves, such as their own server. Sandbox mode means that people can start experimenting with federation without interfacing with the actual network — think of it as a test network. If you’d like to run your own server, you’ll be able to do so in the near future. The AT Protocol is mad

Federation Architecture Overview - Bluesky Many of our experiences with social media today are defined by the same constraining dynamics — one private company owns all of our data, populates our feeds with an algorithm of their choice, and we’re unable to take our followers and posts with us to a new home if we ever decide to leave. The AT Protocol, a federated networking model which Bluesky is built upon, changes this. Soon, we’re launching a sandbox environment to begin the testing phase of federation for the AT Protocol with allow-listed servers. In advance of this launch, we want to share

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