> But why would you want to build

The problem is that that sounds like "you shouldn't want to compete with Bluesky". Which makes it dangerously centralized.

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danabramov 2 hours ago | parent [-]

I don't understand how running your own Relay is related to competing with Bluesky. A Relay is just a dumb websocket broadcaster. Yes, you can absolutely run one on your own if you don't want to rely on any of the existing ones. I don't think this has to do with competition.

	▲	JoshTriplett 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I'm saying that if there is any required component of a full ATProto setup whose lowest-friction implementation is "use the One True Central Implementation, which every tool defaults to and which will be very painful to change", then it's not a decentralized protocol. Are there any components of ATProto that are found not through a service discovery mechanism that would seamlessly migrate to a new service, but by every individual app going "here's the hardcoded URL we never expect you to want to change"? I like the concept of working like RSS. I don't like the idea of having a massive ecosystem coordination problem with game-theoretic network effects, for any component of the system.