I'm so disappointed in myself with how long it took me to understand 😅
Haven't dug into it much yet. But, to me it sounds like a cousin to a git repository with structured binary data records in it that are kinda JSON flavored? There's a lot to wrap my head around in there, so I keep putting off understanding it atproto.com/specs/data-m...atproto.com/specs/reposi...
Consistent data encoding for records and messages.
AIUI, it's like web storage, except without the concept of a browser to directly access / view the content from PDS. That functionality lives elsewhere in the stack where app views are made available.
So, a "second instance" of Bluesky would entail essentially a whole parallel network of all the servers and services up through the funnel stack. It's not as "holographic" as, say, ActivityPub & Mastodon are - wherein any individual instance is an entire social network in and of itself
As I roughly understand it, Bluesky is a federated funnel of upward data aggregation. Self-hosted PDSes can live as leaf nodes, their data fetched and aggregated up into bigger stores & indexes. At the most centralized top of the funnel, there live feed generators and app view providers.
Oof, we had that happen once when we were both sick in our house and ordered ice cream as a “we’re baby” treat. Cigarette smoke permeated the condensation on the containers, just inescapable.
I absolutely remember this game! Was obsessed with it for awhile in college, and it somehow ran decently on a 56k modem. I remember drive-by bombings in a Leviathan Got a Subspace CDROM around here somewhere, from when they went retail, just a few months before shutting down the official servers
Yup, they never stopped